February 26, 2009

February 26, 2009
Dear Families,

This has been a wacky short week learning about Ww. The boys and girls took a winter walk and learned about water. We read the book A Weekend with Wendell. It was about a boy that went to a friend’s house for a sleepover. While there, the boy was not a very nice guest. He was mean to the little girl and didn’t make good decisions. We discussed what the boys and girls would do if Wendell had a sleep over at their houses, and we filled out a paper with their ideas. Warthogs in the Kitchen was a big book that we read. We completed a main idea worksheet that went with the book. The kindergartners practiced sequencing with a winter activity paper.

There is no school on Friday, February 27th or Monday, March 2nd!

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 Qq. Since there are very few items that begin with Qq, sharing next week will be free choice.

Next week we are turning the dramatic play center into a Pizza Palace. Families are welcome to send pizza items to school. Please put your child’s name on anything you want returned home.
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!

Please continue to send the boots and snowpants until further notice. These items keep the children dry and clean. If we find that we don’t need them, the snow items will stay in the room during recess. We will let you know when you no longer need to send them.

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