Thursday, 3 March 2016

Friday Update Feb 29 to March 4

Friday, March 4, 2016

It has been another wonderful week of learning! We have had a special visitor, reconnected with Mango and Jelly, were cloud watching and continued concentrating on letters and numbers in our environment.

Our explorations and activities included…
*Daniel’s mom came in and created sand art with us! The kiddos had so much fun doing it, and created beautiful colored sand layers in a jar they took home.
*Our mark making area has continued to be popular!  Thank you so much for sending in envelopes, paper, stickers….I found many of my childhood things I collected to add to this area, and it has been fun shopping!  If you have envelopes especially to send in, these are a favorite!!!
*We continued exploring clouds, and went out with clipboards, as well as using many different materials to recreate our cloud observations.  See the blog for more details on our cloud explorations. (It is in 2 parts)
*Many of you sent in recycled materials to add to our maker-space—the cuties were so into this as well!!!  We had binoculars, bird feeders, pencil holders….you name it!  All being created with recycled materials!
*We made our March calendar
*We practiced a lot with our letters and numbers this week, and will continue with this. When you see numbers, letters and words in the environment around you, be sure to point them out to your child.
*We reconnected with Mango and Jelly!  We cuddled them, fed them, brushed them, drew pictures for them, wrote letters to them and told them how special they are to us!  This related very well to our talks about kindness and respect.  As a class we have really been working on being “bucket fillers” and being kind to our friends, bringing our yelling voices down to quiet friendly voices, and respecting people, animals and our environment. Let your child tell you about our kindness candle time, and be sure to take a quick moment to praise your cutie when they are being kind. J


REMINDERS/IMPORTANT DATES
Friday, March 11th: Field Trip to Elephant and Piggie. *FIELD TRIP FORMS ARE COMING HOME TODAY—You can keep the first page, please sign and return the second page.  If the info on that page is not correct, write in on the page for me, but also go into the SAS website and change the information (it means you haven’t updated it.) I can’t go in and do that. We will be leaving the school that day at 8:20 and returning around 11:30. Please pack a normal snack for that day (and lunch if your child does home lunch.) There are no chaperones for the trip.
Thursday, March 17th and Friday, March 18th: PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES.  Our students do not come to the conferences and do not have school these two days. *If you would like to talk to Ma Laoshi about Chinese, please sign up on her schedule (the same page that my sign up is on.) Ms. Laura’s is also there, however she is away for the conference days and will be doing her meetings on a different day.
March 19th to March 27th:  SPRING BREAK: NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS
*Please return the red library bag and books and the blue Friday Folder bag on Monday!!





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