Friday, February 20, 2026

February, 20th

  

February 20th

We have been learning all about PLANTS these past two weeks!  We have been working on some projects to share with you at our Learning Fair on Thursday from 5:00-6:30pm.  We hope you can join us!


I will be out of the classroom on Monday, Feb. 23rd to take Cooper to the State Final Ski Race.  Miss B. will be in the classroom.  If you have any end of the day changes or messages for her, please feel free to email her at kbartholomew@lowellschools.com

Learning Fair Basket

Please help add to our classroom basket for the Learning Fair Raffle!  Sign up below to donate to our basket.  This is always a fun night here at MLE!  Thank you to Mrs. Schmidt and Mrs. Clark for organizing our basket!

Food Fight Time!!

Our school is participating in our annual Food Fight for FROM!  Families can donate non-perishable food to help out families in our community.  Let's see how many food items our class can bring in!  Thank you to everyone that has donated so far.  Let's keep those non-perishable foods coming in!   


For Your Calendar:

Feb. 26th--Learning Fair 5:00-6:30pm.  Please be sure to sign up to donate to our classroom basket below:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F45A5AE2AA2FFC43-61913087-mrs#/

April 28th--Field Trip to the Grand Rapids Children's Museum 9:30-11:30am.  I will need 4 parent volunteers to meet us there.  I will do a drawing as we get closer to the date.  Student admission is paid for by MLE Family Links fundraiser.  

May 14th--Field Trip to the Wittenbach Nature Center 9:30-1:30pm.  We will be eating lunch at the nature center.  Please pack a lunch and drink for your child.  We will need parent volunteers to meet us there.  Let me know if you are available to attend!

May 21st -- Kindergarten End of the Year Family Picnic at Creekside Park in Lowell.  We hope all our Kindergarten families will join us for a picnic lunch and playtime!  10:45am-1:30pm  Younger siblings are encouraged to come, too!

May 28th--Field Trip to the Dairy Discover Farm 10:00-12:00.  All parents may attend.  Cost $6 per parent attending.  Student admission is paid for by MLE Family Links fundraiser.  


Reading

Theme:  Ready, Set, GROW--Plants
*The job of the author and illustrator
*Listening for middle vowel sounds and ending sounds
*Letters/Sounds:  We reviewed letter Ww and Kk
*Building words with known letters
*Taking picture tours/walks through a book
*Using an illustration to tell a story
*Make connections to our own lives when we read a book

New Sight Words:   with     look

Review Words:  a      the     and       go    he   had    I     see   you    has   we   of     at    to
it     is     in    has     am    on    as   can    his     him    have   did    girl    for    but    up   all

*Today in your folder you will see your child's recent sight word assessment and a list of flashcards for those words your child still needs to practice.  We are working on learning to read each word within 5 seconds (building fluency) and how to write them in our every day writing.

Writing


*Using sight words and known sounds to write simple sentences
*Capitalizing the first word in a sentence
*Writing beginning, middle and ending sounds in CVC words.
*Space between words
*Period at the end of the sentence

Math

*Representing numbers 11-13 in varies ways
*Understanding subtraction 0-10
*Composing and decomposing numbers from 6-10
*Writing and solving addition and subtraction problems 0-10 using manipulatives
*Counting to 100 by 1's and 10's

Reminders

*Send a snack daily
*Library books are returned on Thursdays
*Literacy Bags returned on Mondays
*Send a water bottle daily
*Once a month ice cream Fridays are free for all :)

Take a Peek at our Week









Valentine Party!





Nature Center!







Have a Great Weekend!


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