A BEARY GOOD START

As part of our new unit on bears, we have shared several nature stories and continued our learning about trees. The Kindergarteners have also expressed great enthusiasm for information about the jungle, which will lead our learning in the coming weeks.

Over the next several weeks we will work on a bear den from 4L milk jugs. We have made an appeal to children from the entire school to bring in their (well rinsed!) milk jugs to share with us for our project.

Home Reading logs are being filled very quickly and the children are very anxious to exchange their book each day. As each sheet is filled, a sticker will be added to your child’s folder to give them a visual sense of their progress. PLEASE KEEP ALL SHEETS IN YOUR CHILD'S FOLDER, EVEN AFTER THEY ARE COMPLETE.

Also, PLEASE let me know if this is not a fun, snuggle up and read time for your child. If your child does not want to read at home, or they want you to read a book from your bookshelf instead, feel free to read it to them, talk about something silly in the story that you liked/they liked, then log the book onto the sheet and send the book back to school. If you jot me a note that you have had to make changes to ensure your child’s enjoyment of your reading time, that would be appreciated. We continue to work on reading strategies, letter and combinations of letter-sounds, printing and writing using what we know about sounds.

We also continue to work on numbers in the teens, backward counting, and skip-counting.

THERE IS NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY, MARCH 5th.
REPORT CARDS WILL GO HOME NEXT WEEK, AND PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES WILL RUN IN THE THIRD WEEK OF MARCH. I LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING WITH EACH AND EVERY CHILD AND HIS/HER PARENT(S).