Mark Your Calendar:

Monday, March 13th>  USA Heritage Map due

Tuesday, March 14th>  Kindergarten’s Field Trip to the Fire Station and Kid’s Crossing Park> see paperwork for details

Friday, March 17th>  1/2 day Noon Dismissal, Homework Packet due, Quick Check Assessment, End of 3rd Quarter

******Spring Break> <March 20th – 24th, return to school on Monday, March 27th

Schedule of Specials: 

Tuesday and Thursday (PE): children wear PE short and shirt with approved tennis shoes and plain white socks.  Light-Up shoes and socks with color/emblems are not allowed.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday (Spanish, music, guidance):   children wear regular uniforms (no PE).  Approved shoes and navy socks are required.  Tennis shoes are not to be worn on these days.  Belts are required if there are belt loops.  Hair accessories are limited to the colors found in the uniform.

Academic Themes for the Week

Topic: Fire Safety

Look for their Weekly Emergent Readers to go home on Fridays.  I encourage you to save these weekly emergent reader books in a special place:  a treasure box or special basket.  Whenever they want to pull out a story to read to you, they can select a story from their special story box.

Reading Block:    Capitalization & Punctuation; Blending; Writing a Complete Sentence; identifying middle sounds

Word Study:   Continuation with Blends;  – it word family introduction, beginning sounds sort; building word family houses

Writing:  Completing Sentences; developing their own story:  character, setting, problem: Opinion Writing

Sight Words: down    went    only    little

Math Block:   make an ABC pattern using pattern blocks; writing numerals to 100

Science/Social Studies/Art:  Start of our 4-6 week USA Unit of Study; Fire Station Preparation/Safety

Religion:  Stations of the Cross; Resurrection, Lent, Easter Sunday; St. Patrick; story of Zacchaeus

 Enrichment:  USA Themed Projects over the next 4-6 weeks (some of which includes the following:  Classroom Heritage Map; USA Book-which includes Presidents and US Symbols; 50 States Song; etc)

Mad Scientist: Skittles Rainbow

 Foodie Fun:  

To Work On At Home:

writing their first and last name

writing numbers to 100

blending sounds together to read words>reading and writing simple sentences

memorize phone number and address

tie their shoes