jonesjems: March 2013

March is almost gone and April will be here soon. We just finished the 3^rd quarter. Progress reports are coming home. Look them over with your child and sign and return the attached note.

Time is flying by and we still have so much to learn.

Some of the things we are trying to catch up on that we haven’t got to yet, and the new things we will be learning about are:

Math: Counting to 100 by 5’s and 2’s, adding, subtracting, odd and even, telling time to the hour.

Social Studies: Penguins, globe, mammals (hopefully whales, ocean).

Writing: Writing all the sounds we hear, remembering uppercase, spaces, punctuation, sentences in Writer’s Workshop.

Reading: Kindergarten sight words and anything else we can! Digraphs, blends, silent and magic “e”.

With warm weather coming students are leaving jackets and coats at school. Please remind them to check (or come in yourself and look) for missing items. We have a lot in our classroom and nobody will claim them. They will soon go to DI. Also, remember to follow the district dress code: no tummies showing, no shoulders showing, no short shorts, no flip-flops.

Remember:

Mondays: Reading folders

Wednesdays: Library

Thursdays: PE (dress for it)

If your child is going to be absent call the office to have them excused.

Upcoming Schedule:

March 26: Easter Fieldtrip to Canyon Park

March 27-31: Spring Break
April 5: Talent Show

April 16: Clifford Day

April 22: Testing for DIBELS and Kindergarten Assessment begins

Looking farther ahead….. Our Kindergarten Program is scheduled for Thursday, May 16 at 7:00. (We are trying to move it to Tuesday, May 14) Keep both those days in mind.

To prepare for our final test I will send homework practice packets. In the meantime, read, Read, READ every day! Have your child write each day as well ie: your shopping list, a thank you note, wish list, what he/she did on the weekend, at school, for Easter, etc. Don’t spell for them. I don’t want them to get hung up on spelling correctly. Accept their phonetic spelling and encourage them to write all the sounds they hear.

Thank you for all your great help and support. I appreciate each of you so much and love your children. This has been such a fun year.

read-a-thon or eat-a-thon!

A visitor from the North Pole

Learning about Dental Health

100's Day Fun

100 year old portraits

Valentine's Day

These 2 handsome devils dressed up for the day!

Passing out valentine's and eating cupcakes

Caribbean Steel Drum Band Concert

Cute in orange!

What the teacher who loves her students does on a Saturday!

Wrestling in Parowan at 8:00 a.m. then a cowgirl birthday party at 11:00. Time out for lunch with the hubby then on to Kanarraville to a wedding reception.

I feel so blessed to have each of them in my life, and lucky to be invited to be part of theirs.