March 20, 2008

March 20, 2008

Dear Families,

This week we were busy learning about the letter Bb. The kindergartners talked about what they would like to do when they get bigger. We also learned about bears and made Bb booklets. We read another booklet called Fun in the Sun. The kindergartners learned the word for. On Thursday morning we went down to Farmers Savings Bank and learned about all of the different types of banking jobs.

Check with your child on the condition of his/her glue stick and crayons. Many need replacing, and we have very few borrowing glue sticks left!

Our brief spring break will be tomorrow! We return to school on Monday, March 24th. While home for spring break, boys and girls could practice reading, identifying pennies, dimes, and nickels and their values, counting by tens, and counting by fives.

We now have officially scheduled Grandparents/Guest Days on the calendar. The dates are Thursday, May 8th and Friday, May 9th. Kindergartners may invite their grandparents to school during the afternoon on one of those days for a short program and refreshments. If your kindergartner does not have a grandparent that can attend, then any grown up guest will be fine. More information and official invitations will be sent home later.

Friday, March 28th will be the end of the third quarter of school. It is hard to believe that there is only a little more than one quarter left! We continued to work on report card jobs. Report cards will come home on April 5th.

Next week we learn about the letter Xx. Not many items start with Xx so sharing is free choice.

Please continue sending snowpants and boots! Snowpants keep your kindergartner cleaner and drier. Boots keep the room cleaner. As we’ve said before, the kindergartners are excellent mud magnets and can get wet and dirty better than any other grade level! We’ll let you know when boots and snowpants are no longer need to be sent to school.
Have an beautiful weekend!

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