1 MORE WEEK UNTIL SPRING BREAK!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!?

Can you even believe it is March?!? I sure can’t…especially with this weather!!! THANK YOU to everyone who attended conferences last week. I know it was SUPER cold, but I appreciate you coming to hear all of the wonderful things we are doing. We will be having spring break in just a week. That means we are at the end of 3^rd quarter ( I can not even believe how fast this year is flying by!!) This week I will be giving some reading assessments and we will be taking a math test. This means we need our friends to be rested up and ready for a week of learning.

We will start Monday off with our annual Meadow Lane book parade!! I am SO excited to see what all of my friends will be wearingJ Remember to bring your book with you!! We will be reading in our classrooms after the parade and be having a healthy snack from our healthy challenge. The kids will need to have extra clothes if they wear an elaborate costume (we want them to be ready to learn. We will also be spending some of this week celebrating Dr. Seuss so you may see some things coming home about this author!! On Wednesday the Cat in the Hat will even be reading us a story!!!

In literacy we will be discussing what can go from here to there. This will include discussing transportation, which is what we are learning about for social studies!! Our vocabulary words will be transportation, vehicle, journey, fierce, and wide. The stories we will be reading are “When Daddy’s Truck Picks Me Up”, “The King of the Winds”, and “From Here to There.” We will be talking about how we can make predictions when we read, we will also be talking about the character, setting, and plot. The letters we will be learning will be ‘j’ and ‘q’.  Our two new sight words will be ‘here’ and ‘me’. During writing we will start talking about prepositions and poetry!! We are busy kids!!!

In math we will be finishing up our fourth unit. We will be working hard on teen numbers. We talk a lot about how many tens and ones a number has. For example, 13 has one ten and 3 ones. Of course, we continue to use  math talk every day and we really are getting SO smart with our math conversations.

In unit studies we will start talking about transportation. We learn about vehicles that go in the air, on the land, and in the water. This is a favorite among our kiddos as they really love talking about things that go!! Make sure you are watching for our cute book we will be making!!!

Don’t forget to bring back your shamrocks so we can see why your kindergarten kid is so lucky!!! If you have questions about them please let me know!! Also, don’t forget we will be having spring break from March 9^th- March 13^th!!!