I hope that you all had a fabulous February break and that your children are ready to return to an exciting month of learning activities. Spring and warmer weather are fast approaching and we have a lot of upcoming events to look forward to. We really missed the children!
March is going to be a marvelous month as we continue to focus on learning about:
- The letters Ww, Xx, Yy and Zz
- Short and long vowel sounds, blending and sounding out words
- Digraphs: ch, sh, th, wh, and blends of two consonants together at the beginning of words
- Word families
- Writing complete sentences with details, describing words, and the correct punctuation
- Writing creative stories with a beginning, middle, and ending
- Proper spacing and letter information
- Sequencing of events in a day
- Reading to learn information
- Writing to inform
- Characters, setting, and sequencing events in a story
- Learning the sight words for instant recall
- Skip counting by 2's, 5's and 10's
- Number recognition and putting them in order to 30
- Telling time, calendar days and months
- Ordinal numbers to fifteenth
- Counting and making fair trades using pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters
- Measurement
- Rocks and soil
- Dr. Seuss stories
- St. Patrick's Day
- Spring
- Junior Achievement lessons with Mrs. Caimano and Mrs. Trask - thank you so much!
- Living and Non-living things
- Following directions, listening and being kind and respectful to others
Listed below are our March events:
1st: Wear silly socks in honor of celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday and Read Across America all week long.
2nd: Wear pajamas to school
3rd: Crazy Hat Day and Library
Final day to turn in Six Flags reading sheets
4th: Wear Spirit Wear and bring your favorite Dr. Seuss books to school to read for Read Across America Day at Mtn. View
7th: Rocks and Roll High-Touch High-Tech in-school field trip (wear blue kindergarten shirts)
Boosterthon Fun Run Foundation fundraiser kick off begins and runs through the 18th (more information to follow)
10th: Library
16th: The actual day of The Boosterthon Fun Run Foundation school fundraiser to earn money to raise money to pay for our Computer Lab teacher and to purchase a new gym floor. Our Computer Lab teacher does such excellent lessons with the children, and her salary only comes from The Foundation contributions. Thank you for your incredible contributions and support all year, which we really do appreciate very much.
17th: St. Patrick's Day activities and Library
18th: School Spring Pictures (notice the date change)
24th: Library
Report cards go home
25th: Family Fit Night (6:30pm to 8:30pm) and Teacher Silent Auction (more information to follow)
30th: Kindergarten registration and screening for any new kindergartners for the fall
31st: Library and March reading logs due
Six Flags Reading Sheets are due by Wednesday, March 2nd, and the February Reading Logs are also due. The Book-in-the-Bag reading that your children may be doing and any other reading program that they do can count for time spent reading on each of the reading sheets. The reading programs develop the children's fluency in reading. Thank you for reading with your child each night, as it really makes a big difference in his/her reading.
Learning all of the sight words has really helped the children become better readers, and once they learn all of the words, they may be starting the Accelerated Reader Program where they read books carefully twice and then answer comprehension questions on the computer for points to earn prizes from the media center.
As we are entering the second half of the year, we are encouraging the students to become more and more independent and self-sufficient with their class work and with keeping track of their belongings and responsibilities.
Thank you for supporting Jump Rope for Heart with your generous donations. Mountain View donated over $20,000 to this wonderful cause. We also appreciate you supporting our Fine Arts Night, school play, and the spaghetti dinner. The children from our class were awesome in the play!
We really appreciated our very special Valentine's Day gifts, Teacher Appreciation gifts and your contributions of Clorox wipes and Kleenex, which we really needed.
Please help your child his/her address, city, state, zipcode, telephone number, county, continent and country. We will be assessing each child on this soon.
Thank you so much for your continued support. It's so thrilling to see your children making so much progress and enjoying learning each day. We have the best class!
