Weekly Update

News to Know

• IWIA's third annual auction will be held on Saturday, March 27. More info on the school website. Look forward to seeing you there!
• Spring Pictures are on Monday!! THESE MUST BE PREPAID!! Students may dress tastefully out of uniform. There will be class group photos made....these must also be prepaid.
• Field Day t-shirt orders are due on Friday, April 2! Please fill out and return the order form as soon as possible.
• Thursday will be our April Fool's celebration! We will have a mixed-up, silly day filled with silly literature, silly names, and silly dress. The girls may wear mixed up creations such as bathing suits over pajamas or mismatched socks with mismatched shoes or crazy headwear. Please be mindful that shoes and clothing must be safe for play outside. (no flip-flops or Crocs)

Academic Update

• The girls did a great 'job' this week earning money! They were so excited to pay with their hard-earned money for our cupcake decorating. We will continue to earn money until the end of the year continuing the concepts we began to explore of spending and saving. Also this past week, we discussed goods and services, wants and needs, and bartering. In language arts, we completed our persuasive letters and categorized nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Math concepts this week were number scrolls (seeing how high we can write numbers in a grid), place value, addition and subtraction, and number sequence.
• Next week: April Fool's & Easter, our IB unit, It Takes a Village final assessments, writing genres & purposes, patterning through weaving, and more number combinations

Weekly Websites

• Learn about April Fool's Day traditions around the world
• Play a variety of transportation games
• Work on reading comprehension

Weekly Update

News to Know

• Please be sure to send in nut free, healthy snacks. It is also VERY helpful if you provide them individually packaged. We generally eat our snacks outside and it is sometimes difficult to portion them in a timely manner. Your help is appreciated.
• Please encourage your little darling continue to work hard on her 'have-to' assignments. These assignments and expectations are given at the beginning of the week. I would really like to see the girls stretching themselves to go 'above and beyond' on these!
• Reading books that come home throughout the week should be returned each day in the clear folders. I serve at least two groups each day, but try to get to more if time permits. Please read the book and discuss it at home to support our classroom learning.
• Spring Pictures will be March 29. Students may wear spring or alternative clothing. Please still be mindful that appropriate footwear is required: no open toes or flip flops.
• Field day will be May 12. T-shirts may be purchased for $6.85, cash or check. Please return the order form with the size indicated by April 2. The kindergarten color is yellow.

Academic Update

• This week we begin our week of trade and economics. We are earning money for good choices in our 'jobs' to spend at the end of the week to purchase a treat. We can each purchase a cupcake and the decorations based upon the amount of money we have earned and saved. We will also be focusing on nouns, verbs, and adjectives, persuasive letter writing, and fluency in our reading. In math, we will play the plus/minus game, create number scrolls, put numbers in order, and practice addition.
• If you would like to donate items for our special activity on Friday or volunteer to help us, please let us know. We will make our purchases to decorate @ 2pm.

Websites for the Week

• Begin talking about smart financial choices while playing Mad Money

• Help your child learn more about coins and their value

• Sort nouns and verbs

• Check out some community helpers

Weekly Update

News To Know

• Wednesday is St. Patrick's Day. Don't forget to have your little one wear at least one item of green!
• We are creating a sticker collection! Please allow your little darling to bring some in to add to the class collection.
• Spring Pictures will be March 29. More info to follow.
• Class Books came in! They are amazing! Thanks for your support!
• Be sure to sign your little darling's book authorization so that they can bring home the reading group book for the week.
• We are still missing a few signed report cards. Please be sure to return a signed copy as soon as possible.
• Townhall Meeting being hosted by the IWIA Governing Board, March 23 @ 7pm in the MPR
• Don't forget to recycle paper at school! The red dumpster near the pond earns money once per quarter based on the weight of recycled paper. So bring your newspapers, magazines, junk mail, etc! No cardboard.

Academic Update

Last week: Our "It Takes a Village" unit continued with an exploration of types of and uses of transportation. We learned the definition of transportation and vehicle, sorted vehicles, and classified vehicles by movement types. We created a great list of vehicles and read many books about transportation. On Friday, we had a paper airplane contest! In math, we started focusing more heavily on reading, writing and solving number stories, comparing 2D and 3D shapes, worked more on coin exchanges and started our class collection. (Please keep saving stickers!) Our literacy lessons focused on opposites, homophones and homonyms, and the sounds for dr and tr.

This week: We'll be building more understanding of how communities function through learning about community helpers and how people earn, save and spend money. We'll also be learning more about St. Patrick's Day, and imagining what our future careers will be. We will also learn about the quarter, build 3D shapes, build addition skills, learn about place value and learn about "name collection". In literacy, we'll look for things we'd like to change around our school and write persuasive letters, explore r-controlled vowels and compare and contrast sight words. We'll also be focusing on the attributes of patience and appreciation this week.

Mid-week Update

• Please remember that tomorrow, Thursday, March 4, is an early release day. Noon dismissal. It is also Crazy Hat and Socks day!!
• Ice cream sales have begun in the cafeteria. If you would like to send ice cream money with your child you may do so. The prices range from $.50 - $1.00. The girls will be responsible for their own money and will have to finish their lunch, at teachers’ discretion, to purchase the ice cream.
• Friday we will have our Reader’s theatre performance and farm celebration. We will be celebrating our new found knowledge with Mrs. Kraften’s boys with homemade bread, jam, eggs, and bacon. It should be much fun!
• March 13^th is the First Annual Health Fair sponsored by the Butterfly Club. If you are interested in helping, please let us know.
• Since we are currently in our “It Takes a Village” unit, we would like to see if there are any members of our Pride that would like to come share with the class. In the upcoming weeks we will be learning about community helpers. If you have an interesting career or talent and would be willing to come share with us, please let us know!!
• Next week, we have an activity planned that will require magazine pictures. If you have any magazines that you would let us cut up and recycle, please send them in.
• If you would like to schedule a conference for next week’s conference, please contact me. These are optional.
• The class auction project is almost complete! A big thank you to Holly Fisher for her hard work putting the girls' work together. Also, thanks to Kristy and Shannon for their assistance with it! Don't forget your items to donate! There are monetary prizes!! You can find forms in the office or contact Eileen Pruitt eileenp216@gmail.com