Reminders:

March 29-April 5 Spring Break

What We Have Been Learning:

Bible: We finished our Easter timeline this week. It is amazing to think of every single event from Palm Sunday until Easter. We tried to recognize the many emotions that were felt during the time, the worry, the sadness and then the joy of the resurrection. What an honor to celebrate the amazing gift!

Math: We are recognizing how we can show addition with different tools-like connecting cubes and two color counters and write the math expression with numbers.

Writing: We continue to work on stretching out words as we try to write them. This week we drew and wrote our hopes for spring break.

Phonemic Awareness: We are continuing to work on listening to blends. This can be tricky!

On Monday we had a Burn Bright celebration which was a puppet show!

We love our secret readers!

We celebrated Tinsley UP IN LIGHTS! We love Tinsley’s smiles and excitement for her friends and school. She loves to share her ideas with her friends.

Amazing job dressing up as book characters!!!

We enjoyed a special secret reader, Tinsley’s grandma, Mrs. Walters!

Our helpers of the day choose an exercise or movement for us to do while we count the days of school. This fun stretch kept us going as we counted by tens to 130 then continued until 132 days of school!

Reminders:

Monday, March 25 – Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day WEAR GREEN!

Tuesday, March 26 – Autism Awareness Day (celebrated internationally on 4/2/24) WEAR BLUE!

Tuesday, March 26 – Mrs. Bronsink is out of the building for a Language Arts meeting. Mrs. Hamilton will be the substitute teacher.

Wednesday, March 27 – Your Choice! Wear a specific color, shirt, bracelet, etc. to bring awareness to something you or your family are passionate about related to a specific diagnosis or disability. We can use this as an opportunity to learn more about what makes us all unique!

We had a chilly walk during Nature Rich Learning. We stopped at a few churches and areas to read a book that led us through the emotions shown in the Easter story.

What a blessing to celebrate Hudson on World Down Syndrome day! He is extra special to us!

Reminders:

Please send in clean towels in a bag on Monday.

Please keep an eye on this ever changing weather 🙂 We make sure kids wear a jacket when the weather is below 40 degrees. If it is sunny and above 40, we allow long sleeve shirts and no coats as an option.

March Secret Reader Sign Up

March 22 Wear pajamas to school (kindergarten only)

March 21 All School Chapel 9:10am

March 22 Half Day of School

Book Character Dress-Up Day: Thursday, Mar. 28,2024- Plan and prepare a costume to resemble the character as closely as possible.

March 29-April 5 Spring Break

What We Have Been Learning

Sifa was our friend Up In Lights! We enjoyed hearing books from his mom and dad this week. We learned about Sifa’s years in Kenya and his favorite things.

The class was able to explore fallen branches on school property during Nature Rich Learning.

We continue to love our Secret Readers!

Building with 7 pattern blocks during Math. We learned we can make many different things with 7 blocks and there are many ways to add to get 7.

We were going to write How to Build a Snowman and decided to practice building again with play-doh 🙂

This week we began reading the Easter Story. Beginning with the triumphal entry and Jesus teaching us how to serve others when He washed the disciples’ feet. We were sad that Judas was already making a plan to betray Jesus.

Reminders:

Please send in clean towels in a bag on Monday.

Please keep an eye on this ever changing weather 🙂 We make sure kids wear a jacket when the weather is below 40 degrees. If it is sunny and above 40, we allow long sleeve shirts and no coats as an option.

March Secret Reader Sign Up

March 15 Bring a favorite book to school (kindergarten only)

March 22 Wear pajamas to school (kindergarten only)

March 21 All School Chapel 9:10am

March 22 Half Day of School

Book Character Dress-Up Day: Thursday, Mar. 28,2024- Plan and prepare a costume to resemble the character as closely as possible.

March 29-April 5 Spring Break

What We Have Been Learning

Writing Workshop: We began our unit on how to instruction writing by writing how to blow bubbles. We first had to make sure we knew what to do 🙂

Math: The class is doing such a great job show math expressions with drawings and using two color counters. We are writing expressions such as 5+4 or 9-6.

Phonics: We worked on cvc words and understanding we could change the first letter to make a whole new word.

Phonemic Awareness: We are listening to th, ch and sh sounds in words.

We have loved listening to our mystery readers! I was even able to be a reader for Mrs. Arnold’s class.

During Nature Rich Learning we explored motion.

Sam was our friend Up In Lights this week! We love learning about our friends and we all learned that Sam was not born in Michigan. We did not know he lived in North Carolina! Sam, thanks for bringing lots of excitement to our learning.

We loved listening to an author read her book! Peanut Butter Pie helps us remember Pause, Breath Pray. This was an excellent book in helping us calm our bodies when we feel worried. It just so happened we had a tornado drill during the read. This worked well in keeping us calm during this practice.

Reminders:

Please send in clean towels in a bag on Monday.

Please keep an eye on this ever changing weather 🙂 We make sure kids wear a jacket when the weather is below 40 degrees. If it is sunny and above 40, we allow long sleeve shirts and no coats as an option.

March Secret Reader Sign Up

March 8 Author Visit

March 21 All School Chapel 9:10am

March 22 Half Day of School

Book Character Dress-Up Day: Thursday, Mar. 28,2024- Plan and prepare a costume to resemble the character as closely as possible.

March 29-April 5 Spring Break

What We Have Been Learning:

Daily 5: We have been adding books and word activities to reading groups. It is wonderful working with these growing readers. The kids also chose new books for their book boxes. I love to see them so excited about new books! They immediately sit down and start reading them.

Phonics: We are meeting new word families. The class is doing a great job understanding that word families have the same middle and ending. This week we were surprised how many words we made with et.

Word Wall Words: This week we added on. Please continue to review reading and writing: a, at, and, am, come, go, here, I, is, look, like, me, my, see, the, this, to, up, we.

Writing Workshop: We are beginning our new writing unit: How to instructions. To get us warmed up, students worked with a partner to put 3 piece puzzles together. We practiced using the words first, next and last when describing our puzzle. This will help us get ready to write out 3 step instructions.

This week we celebrated Oliver Up In Lights. We loved listening to Oliver’s favorite Elephant and Piggie book and hearing where Oliver and his family have traveled.

The class took holding up their signs very seriously as we cheered for the unified basketball team on Friday!