January 16, 2009

January 16, 2009

Dear Families,

What a week! We learned about Martin Luther King, Jr. and dictated two facts we learned about him on a paper. We worked hard at completing all 4 of our Saxon reading lessons for Ee during this crazy week. The kindergartners practiced counting by tens and made Ee booklets.

Next week we will be studying the letter Yy. Since there aren’t many things that start with Yy, kindergartners may bring in any free choice item. Since there is no school on Monday due to teacher meetings, the Monday sharing people may bring their sharing item any day next week.

Some families are thinking about Valentine’s Day already. Children can choose to have a valentine for each child in their particular group or one for each child in the class. (This means that reds could give a valentine to only the reds, or the reds and the blues. The blues could give a valentine only to the blues, or the the blues and the reds.) Attached to this newsletter is the list of names for each group. We encourage children to start working on them early. Writing their own name 20 to 41 times takes a long time. Families can help write the students’ names that the valentines will be given to.

PLEASE SEND BOOTS, HATS, AND MITTENS EVERYDAY TO SCHOOL!!!!!! Hopefully we will get to go outside soon. We want to be prepared when that happens!

We have had a lot of colds and other sick bugs in the classroom. We try to keep germs spreading to a minimum, but that is difficult. We wash hands often, clean the toys, tables, and pencils, and encourage students to cough and sneeze into their elbows instead of their hands. You will be called to pick up your child if we believe that he/she is too sick to be at school. We hope that you understand.

We hope you can keep warm this winter weekend!

Ms. Howard, Mrs. Owens, Mr. Degner, Mrs. Rohlfsen, Mrs. Pokorny, and Mrs. Herink

SOME UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER:
February 13th - Valentine’s Day parties
February 16th - There IS school!
February 24 - 12:20 Dismissal for Parent-Teacher Conferences
February 27th - NO SCHOOL (Comp Day)