Hello to all of our readers!
This post will be more "newsy" and less spot on of an activity that we are doing.
We have two birthdays in the month of March.... Tiffany will be turning 6 on the 13th and I will be having a birthday on the 18th (which is a day we do not have school)!!
I have started the 3rd Quarter Assessments and conferences will be fast approaching. Sheets will be coming out soon to communicate the time that you had before, and if that will still work! I can't believe we are almost to the end of the third quarter but here we are! One thing that I am noticing we need to work on is writing our numbers, our months of the year, and counting to 100. Another thing we need to work on is making our handwriting better and using our lowercase letters. We talk about it often, now we just have to implement!
I have sent out the March specials calendar. I am trying to get the calendar uploaded onto our blog, but I am still working on it. Hopefully we don't have any more snow days so that we don't have to be "off" schedule! We have a musical concert coming up on the 15th! The kids are doing a lot of practice and will do a fantastic job I am sure! We will have some extra practices coming up during the first recess, which will help so if they tell you we didn't have recess we were just practicing for perfection :o)
Coming up in March we will be putting up a new PWIM poster that deals with a farm. We will be talking about spring, growing things like plants, a field trip to a farm and at the very end summer, and summer safety. I am excited to see what kinds of words we will shake out! With that we will continue to work on our problem solving with our CGI problems. We are getting better at the strategies we use and hopefully they will continue to grow for the rest of the year! The thing about problem solving that is great is that it can be used anywhere! There are a lot of strategies to solve problems in and outside of the home and to have the skills to solve this is good for life. I try to ask the students problems that they can relate to or can think about outside of school to hopefully get them thinking when they are not in my classroom.
It has come to my attention that quite a few of my students are not bringing tennis shoes and are borrowing some from the gym. Please send these with your kids on PE days or have them at school so they can be ready to work it out and learn fun games with Mrs. Drenth.
All of my reading groups have been working really hard on their word studies and writing. I want to encourage you to PLEASE practice the words on the refridgerator sheet that is sent home each week. We practice in the room but it is hard when they are only working with these words for a few minutes everyday. Along with that, we are working on writing and connecting their letters and sounds with what they hear in their words. Encourage your child to write at home! It doesn't have to be spelled correctly but practice using those sounds to make words!
Lastly...after the evacuations last week. Please help your child memorize a phone number where you can be reached in case of emergencies. I have phone numbers from you if they were given at conferences, but if there is a different number you want them to know...please teach it to them! You never know when these things can happen and being able to get ahold of you is important!
Until next time,
Ms. Mills :o)
