More updates........

We will finish up our testing this week and next. Please have your child at school (barring illness) and prepared with a good breakfast, plenty of sleep, and having practiced the homework packet (still).

We are starting our program practice with the other Kindergarten classes. We have been singing and smiling and getting ready! Remember our program is on Tuesday, May 14 at 6:30 in the lunch room.

We will go on our final field trip to 5 Buck Pizza! It is always a blast! They let us tour their kitchen, learn how pizza is made, and make our own pizza. We watch them bake in the huge oven and have a pizza party in their store! Our field trip day is Monday, May 6. They ask that we donate $1.00 per pizza which is a great deal considering we have free use of their soda fountain as well!

On Tuesday, May 7 we have a special guest. The Cedar City Fire Dept. is coming to talk to us about fire safety.

Wednesday May 15 is our final read-a-thon. We are calling it our "Healthy Reading Party",  meaning, please send a healthy snack for your child to have during the reading time. More info will come home next week.

On Thursday, May 16 is our school walk-a-thon. Students can get pledges for how many laps they will do. **THE PM STUDENTS WILL BE INVITED TO ATTEND DURING THE MORNING THAT DAY. THE WALK-A-THON IS AT 9:30. THIS WILL TAKE THE PLACE OF OUR PM CLASS.
*This is a change in date from earlier posted.

Friday May 17 is field day. We will need several parent volunteers to help with the games that day, and prayers from everyone that the weather will be good!

Our reward movie is on Thursday, May 23 and the last day of school is Friday, May 24.

It's official

Our Kindergarten end of year program will be on TUESDAY, MAY 14 at 6:30 in the lunch room.  Please keep that date open and plan to attend. We will be working hard to get ready. More info will be coming in the next few weeks.

On Tuesday, April 16 we will celebrate Clifford The Big Red Dog Day! Students can wear Clifford's favorite color RED and bring a red treat to share with the class. Students can also bring a Clifford book that we can read as a class (make sure your name is on it).  We will be doing several activities that day around Clifford.

Friday, April 19 is "Dad's and Donuts" in the gym at 8:20.

Teacher request forms are in the office if you would like to make a request for next year. They are due by May 1.

Our last day of centers will be on Friday, April 22. Thank you so much to all our amazing volunteers! I appreciate you all. We could not do it without you. Thank you for helping make a difference for the students in Kindergarten.

Marching on......

                                 

 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.

 Abe and George for President's Day

 CAL Ranch fieldtrip

Painting Easter Eggs (the paper variety)