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

              

 K-3 Newsletter

                     Mrs. MacIntyre

Dear Families,

April 1, 2016

Happy April! If the saying “April showers bring May flowers” holds true then we are certainly off to a good start. We had a very productive month of March.The students thoroughly enjoyed our Dr. Seuss unit and learned so much about rhyming and word families through his style of writing. They also read many books by P.D. Eastman who we learned studied under Dr. Seuss and whose books all have the Dr. Seuss label on them.  Thank you to all of you who were able to come in and read to the class. The students really enjoyed hearing your favorite books. If you weren’t able to come in but would like to please let me know and I can arrange something with you.

Through our Being A Writer program we read and learned from more poetry. We wrote poems as a class and individual poems about our favorite fruits, vegetables and sandwiches. We even learned what an Acrostic poem is and wrote one in class about CORN. Ask your child about it, they should be able to tell you!

In science, we finished up our study on fish and I am happy to say all the fish have been adopted.. Thank you!!

We also began a study of earthworms and redworms. We learned the parts of the worm and observed how they move. We learned how important they are for our gardens and we even learned that they have not one but five hearts!

In math, we are revisiting shapes, adding and subtracting within 10 and counting to 100. We are excited that today marked our 130th day of school and counted by 1’s, 5’s and 10’s to get there.

Due to the snow day, our graduation will now be on June 21st instead of June 20th. Please be sure to mark your calendars and save the date!

I hope you all have a nice weekend!

Sincerely,

Mrs. MacIntyre

    

K-3 Newsletter

                Mrs. MacIntyre   

Dear Families,

March 28, 206

I hope  you all had a Happy Easter! I did not send a newsletter home last week because we had no school on Friday. The students had fun coloring an egg and making a container to bring it home in.

We finished up all of our letter of the alphabet. So there will be no more tongue twisters. We will begin making words and writing sentences in the morning with all the letters we know now!

We are working with recognizing vowels and how they make the syllables in words. The students are already counting the vowels in their names.. Ask them about it they know so much already!

In writing, the students are doing a great job writing poems and describing foods they like through poetry. They are very creative and really enjoy reading their writing to their classmates.

In math, we are working on showing different ways to make the same number, for example..”show me two different ways to make the number 8 using two different colors.” We are also working on solving number stories that involve addition and subtraction and are even writing our own number stories if we are up for the challenge.

We will begin this week or the beginning of next week with a new science unit involving worms.

We are done observing and studying our goldfish and guppies.

Is anyone interested in adopting Rainbow and Sparkles (our goldfish)

Or our 3 guppies?

You would have to have your own tank because I have to return the containers we have been using in class. Please e-mail me if you are interested and we can plan a time for you to pick them up! Thank you in advance.. We can split them up if more than one of you are interested.

Please let me know as soon as possible.

I hope you all have a nice week and that we see the warm sun soon!!

Sincerely,

Mrs. MacIntyre

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

K-3 Newsletter                      

                      Mrs. MacIntyre

Dear Families,

March 18, 2016

I am sure you heard all about the shenanigans that went on here in K-3 yesterday. We had a mischievous leprechaun that came into our classroom. The students were on the lookout for him all day, we think we heard him but we never saw him….

We were very lucky to have Kathy Brownell come in and gather all the kindergarten classrooms together. She told us some Irish folktales and sang some beautiful music with different instruments as well. She also read a poem to us that including our class. She is very talented and kind to come in and treat us to such a great time. Thank you Miss Kathy!

We continue to work on poetry and rhyming words. The students are really enjoying learning about word families and are learning so many new words this month that they can sound out and incorporate into their daily writer’s workshop papers.

We are also working very hard in our science journals. We are comparing our goldfish to our guppies through observation. The students are excited to make connections in this unit with what they already know about fish!

In math, we are learning about shapes and comparing ones that are alike and ones that are different, this ties into our science unit of comparing alike and different very nicely.

Our letter of the week was “Ii”. Our tongue twister was, “ Isaac and Iris like ice cubes and ice cream.”

Reading week was a great success and congratulations to all of the students for reading nightly and keeping track of your minutes. You all did a great job and it is so nice to see you excited about reading! Keep it up!

I would like to thank all the parents and community members and athletes for coming in and reading to our class. It really makes it special for students to see adults enjoying a good book.

If you were not able to come in and you would like to, please let me know and I would be happy to arrange that with you.

I hope you all have a good weekend and I really hope that I see you all on Monday…..

I heard that there is a chance of………. snow!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sincerely,

Mrs. MacIntyre

K-3 Newsletter

                         Mrs. MacIntyre

Dear Families,

March 11, 2016

We had a nice week here in K-3. We are welcoming the warmer weather and getting very excited to welcome spring on March 20th! It looks like it is well on it’s way. The class is really enjoying learning about our new fish. Part of our science and reading program has lessons that teach students where fish live and to learn and be able to name areas of water that are salt water and areas of water that are fresh water that fish can live in. To introduce this concept, last week, I showed the students a short clip of scuba divers in the Great Barrier Reef, which is where my son was.  This week we read from our science book and learned that ponds , lakes, streams, and our goldfish tank are freshwater and oceans,marshes and some fish tanks are salt water. When we had a small assessment yesterday to see if they could draw and sort examples of areas of water are fresh or salt, for example pond and ocean, I was so impressed when some drew and sounded out the word Great Barrier Reef to list under salt water!! They definitely surprise me every day! It would be great if you have extra time this weekend to walk or drive around Jamestown and look for areas of water like marshes, oceans and ponds.. they are so interested in it and we certainly have the best island to explore!

Our letter of the week was “Aa.” Our tongue twister was, “Aime and Asia ate apricots. “

The students worked on writing poems about animals this week and read them aloud to the class. They did a fantastic job.

In math we revisited addition and even added 3 digits. Next week we will be working on 2-D and 3-D shapes.

If you are able to come in sometime next week to read, that is great. If time does not allow for all of you to come in, we can definitely schedule it at a later date. It can be a little overwhelming to have all the parents come in at one time anyway so I am happy to schedule you all in at your convenience.

I cannot believe we have 63 days of school left! Not that I am counting them down… it is part of our curriculum to count the number of days of school! Let’s enjoy these months we have left together and celebrate all that we have learned and are still learning, not just academically, but about each other. It is a wonderful class!

Have a great weekend.

Sincerely,

Mrs. MacIntyre