March 20th

Happy 1st Day of Spring!  We celebrated with a little extra outdoor time this morning.  Let's hope the warmer weather is here to stay!  Thank you all for taking the time to attend conferences with us this week.  It is always nice to share the amazing progress your children are making!

March is Reading Month!

Keep reading!  We are on the homeward stretch.  We will be collecting your maps next Friday!   Our prize assembly will be on Tuesday, March 31st.

For Your Calendar:

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.  We have 4 parents that have been drawn to be our chaperones:  Devin Schmidt, Kaylee Smith, Stacy Burton and Caitlin Malone.  Thank you to everyone that volunteered!   Student admission is paid for by MLE Family Links fundraiser.  

April 30th--K/1st Music Program 2:30-3:00pm

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!  All parents are welcome!

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:  Animal Homes

*The job of the author and illustrator

*Listening for middle vowel sounds and ending sounds

*Letters/Sounds:  We now have gone through all the letters in the alphabet!

*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:   they  down

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

Writing

*Animal reports

*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 :)

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