K-3 Newsletter

                        Mrs.MacIntyre

Dear Families,

April  8, 2016

Well, just when we thought spring had arrived… we had some unexpected snow! The children were just as surprised as I was to see our playground covered in snow.. It sure makes learning about the seasons exciting for us here in kindergarten!

We are beginning our month of April with a study about Oviparous animals. If you ask your child what oviparous means, they should be able to tell you.

The students have been working on writing words and sentences using lowercase letters for their morning work and they are doing very well. They are incorporating them into their Writer’s Workshop papers and they are recognizing the letters in books when they read together. Your should all be very proud of how hard your children work everyday!

In our Being A Writer program, we are learning about opinion writing. We spent the week writing about what animals we think would or would not make a good pet. The students are doing a great job. They are incorporating at least two sentences into each piece of writing. The are adding spaces, lowercase letters and ending punctuation. Wow, that’s impressive! We read Lyle the Crocodile, which the students loved. They all wrote that they would like him for a pet!

In math, the students are working on adding and subtracting within 10 or more and distinguishing between 3-D and 2-D shapes. They are working on telling what number comes next up to 100. For example, ask your child ,”If I say 39 can you tell me what comes next?”

In science, we are moving on from worms and fish and we will be looking at snails soon. We will also begin to look at our trees again and see what changes are occurring now that winter is over.

I hope you all have a nice weekend and remember there is no school next Friday the 15th.

Sincerely,

Mrs. MacIntyre