February 20, 2009

February 23, 2009

Dear Families,

This has been an excellent week! We discussed George Washington because his birthday is February 22nd. We made x-ray booklets and practiced counting by making a specific number of x’s in boxes. We X’ed out animals using specific colors following the directions on the back of the worksheet. The kindergartners voted for their favorite extra fun activity. Their choices were going to Chuck E. Cheese, bowling, miniature golf, going on a picnic, or going to a movie. Centers included working with tangrams, sorting and counting Smarties, playing alphabet bingo, building a town, playing UNO, and listening to a story on a tape.

Please remember that the students get out of school at 12:20 on Monday, February 23rd! There is NO SCHOOL on Friday, February 27th.

Conferences are next week! If your time doesn’t work for you, please let us know so that we can reschedule.

Lately we have had many boys and girls forget their library books on Monday. We need your help in getting the books here on time so that families can enjoy a new book each week.

Next week we will be learning about the letter Ww. Sharing needs to be an item that starts with the letter Ww. We hope to take a winter walk on Tuesday afternoon.

We have a few children with summer birthdays that would like to celebrate their birthday during this school year. If you have one of those children, we can arrange a day for them to celebrate. It is a big deal to them because they get to be the leader that day and have the birthday song sung to them. Let us know in a note if your family would like to pick a day. We like to arrange these ahead of time so that we don’t put two on the same day!

Notice the sharing schedule at the end of the newsletter.

Have an excellent weekend!

Ms. Howard, Mrs. Owens, Mrs. Herink, Mr. Degner, Mrs. Pokorny, and Mrs. Rohlfsen
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February 23 - 27: Something that starts with the letter Ww (Friday kids may bring their sharing any day that week.)
March 2 - 6: Free choice (Qq week) - Monday kids may bring their sharing any day that week.)

The rest of March will be free choice sharing. We may develop some sharing themes for April and May!