It has been a very unusual couple of weeks! We’ve had four snow days during the past two weeks but we’ve still done quite a bit! The children continue to create wonderful artifacts for our museum. We have spent a lot of time learning about modern/contemporary art. We’ve learned about hot and cold colors, painted with kitchen gadgets and marbles, made Kandinsky trees with brightly colored circles, and even made Picasso pictures! The students have really enjoyed learning about this kind of artwork!
We will be transitioning to Impressionist paintings during the next couple of weeks and will be learning about some of the famous Impressionist painters. Students also finished painting their portraits of a friend! All of our portraits and self-portraits are currently displayed on our back wall. They look awesome! We hope you are all able to visit our Kindergarten Museum on Tuesday, April 10th to see all the students’ hard work! It will be from 8:30-9:15am.
The students finished their All I Am books and brought them home today after reading them to the class. It's great when they have to think of all the things they are and what they want to be. We've got very talented children!
The students have also been very busy writing. They have been working hard in their journals. We talked about different sight words and working on spelling them correctly in their writing. They are doing a great job! I would continue practicing these sight words at home with your child to help them learn them even better.
We finished our topic in math about teen numbers. They did a great job counting and writing the numbers. We quickly reviewed our addition math facts this week. I would encourage them to keep practicing at home!
We have enjoyed having Maisey, the Cornsnake in our room. We are looking forward to watching the snake feeding this coming week. We are also very excited to be the first Kindergarten class to do chick hatching! Ms. P. from the Burlington Science Center has already visited the farm to get eggs and put them in the incubator. She will be delivering the eggs to our classroom in a couple of weeks so we can watch the chicks hatch! She will be giving a presentation soon too that will teach us all sorts of neat things about chick hatching and the life cycle of chickens.
We also started learning about the seven continents. We will be reading books and writing facts in our continent books during the next couple of weeks. We are starting with the continent of Africa and have already learned some really neat facts.
Progress reports for grades 1-5 went home on Monday. Kindergarten won’t have another progress report until the end of the year. I sent home the appointment card for our parent/teacher conference that will take place either during the end of March or beginning of April. I do feel that it is important for us to meet to discuss your child’s progress before the end of the year. Please let me know if you need to reschedule.
We are going to the library on Wednesday. Please return library books and all class books too.
Have a great weekend!
Melanie Duncan
The Harlem Superstars visited Francis Wyman this morning!
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