Spring Break 🌷

Ask Your Child About...

1. Identify the words good and said in various texts

2. Use patterns to count and manipulate numbers from ones, teens, and beyond!

3. Healthy habits

4. The kite 

🎳 The kids have been working on their bowling skills in P.E. and WOW they received a cone for every strike made! They worked hard using their focus, persistence, and perseverance skills! 🎳

🍀 Friendly reminder that there will be no school next week Monday, March 18th through Friday, March 22nd due to Spring Break. I hope you all enjoy this week with your family and that any travels are safe and fun!

🎐 In your child's Friday Folder you will find a kite pattern and an instruction sheet that explains the activity. The idea is for your child to decorate the kite in any way they choose and attach a kite tail, which they will then add a bow to for each of the books they read to you over spring break. The idea is to keep the kiddos reading over break, create a calm family activity, and return to school showing their great success in a beautiful way. Thank you for your help in completing this activity! 😊

📚 Reading this week focused on story structure. We talked about how certain events typically happen in different parts of the story; such as a calm beginning leading to a big event, followed by a resolution of some kind and ending with a certain message. This is a tough skill to pick up on, but it is easy to connect across the entire day. You can help your child notice story structure by talking about the different events in a story and why they happen when they do. We can also help point these things out while watching movies, playing games, or completing various activities throughout the day/week/month/year/life. 

🖊 Our true stories have come to an end, with each student picking their favorite true story to keep at school (later to be added to our portfolios) for publishing! In preparation for our next writing unit (How-to books), we are bringing all of the other true stories that may currently be in our writing folders home. Enjoy reading through these stories with your child, and encourage them to add on or clarify any of their stories. Spring break is a great time to keep the writing going! Prompt your author to write stories about fun activities they did and things they observe happening around them in nature!

🔢 We continued working on breaking apart numbers up to 20 this week in math, with an emphasis on finding the group of ten and the group of some ones. We pushed this concept further by expanding our observations to numbers up to 50. We are all starting to understand the place value of a number and what it can tell us. Continue this work at home by asking your child what they notice about patterns between numbers (such as how many more groups of ten are there in 33 than in 3?).

✅ In health we continued our study of how to keep healthy by investigating and discussing various things we can do to keep our bodies healthy. We discussed things that are okay to share with others and things that are not, the importance of exercising and how we can check our heart beat to see how hard we are working our body, how and why we brush our teeth and clean our body, as well as the importance of a good nights' sleep. Please continue to investigate these healthy habits at home and help encourage your child to keep healthy! 😊

🎶🎨 Looking ahead to Thursday, April 25th, we will be holding our annual Lincoln Fine Arts Night at City High Opstad Auditorium from 6:30-8:00 pm. Doors open at 6:00 and Kindergarten will need to be on stage at 6:25 as we are the first to perform. Each class will be sitting together towards the center-front of the seating until the entire night's performance has been completed. Mrs. Langenfeld is requesting that all students return to their class seating spot after performing while parents will be sitting elsewhere in the auditorium. After the entire performance is completed you will come to the class seating area to pick up your child and enjoy the beautiful art being displayed out front. It will be a wonderful evening!

🍀 I hope you all have a super spring break and have plenty of time to enjoy the beautifully forecast weather! 🌞