Friday, March 25th

I’m telling you, the weeks in Room 301 just keep getting better and BETTER! What a fun week this has been in Kindergarten! It was great for me to be back on Monday after two days out and hear ALL about the leprechauns that continued to bother our classroom last week! By Wednesday, all of the hype was over our night out at the Rolladium! You can check out just a few of the fun photos from our night. If you weren't able to make it, have no fear, I'll be going back again soon and be sure to let you know when! Come Thursday we got to celebrate Mrs. Weckstein’s 29th birthday with LOADS of ice cream and toppings brought by Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. Weckstein’s Mom! We also got to welcome a new addition to our Room 301 extended family! A HUGE congratulations to Kelsey, and her parents Joanna and Raul, and her sister Ariel (4th grade) on the birth of baby Ava Acosta! We cannot wait to meet this little bundle and were VERY excited to see her picture on Thursday!

Language Arts


Reading groups continued to meet this week, all FIVE days! A big thank you to everyone who has returned their book bag for the scheduled day as this helps to keep our groups moving and progressing! I will be doing informal reading assessments next week (and even did a few this week) to see the growth that our students are making. There may also be a few switches in reading groups to best fit the needs of each child. In Writer’s Workshop this week we moved into our Poetry Unit. The kids are now POETS! We have talked about different poems and we have learned about using a Writer’s Craft called “repeating lines” when we write our poetry. Our book kit also arrived on Thursday, so we’ll be working to publish our own book in the next coming days! Look for info to come home with your child on ordering this neat keepsake!


Math

This week in math we have done a few different things! We learned how to play “Top-It” with number cards. This game is similar to the game of “War” as we compare numbers to see which numbers are bigger or smaller. We also spent time working with base-10 blocks on the Smartboard, learning to count with the hundreds, tens and ones. Did I mention they also counted to 29 about 8 times on Thursday?

Important Info

Just a HUGE reminder that next Friday, April 1st is our book character day! Your child will need to be dressed up as a character from their story as well as bring any props and the book that they will need to school. We will do a parade to other classrooms on Friday, be here by 3:00pm to catch all of the excitement!

FIELD TRIP! We are going on our first Field Trip on Wednesday, April 27th and will be departing Dublin at 10:15am. We’d love to have parent chaperones come with us on the bus as well. We will be doing our field trip wit Mrs. LaBlanc’s Kindergarten class. Please make sure to return your child’s permission slip and $10 as soon as possible!

Snack Leaders: Monday: Kelsey; Tuesday: Narek; Wednesday: Kaylee; Thursday: Mason; Friday: EAT THE LEFTOVERS! (We have a TON of extra snacks and will be having a large buffet on Friday to dwindle down our supply!)