Thursday, January 22, 2015
Fish Day Fun
The students enjoyed going from one classroom to another to complete various fish and sea creature projects. The projects are now hanging in our hallway to make our very own aquarium! We want to give a special thank you to Mrs. Fragoso, Mrs. Collins, and Mrs. Sneider for volunteering during our really fun day!
Friday, January 16, 2015
January 16, 2015 Newsletter
Dear Parents,
We have begun our unit on sea life in preparation for our trip to the New England Aquarium on Tuesday, January 27th. Please don’t forget to send in the $13 to cover the cost of the trip. Checks should be made payable to Francis Wyman Kindergarten. We have three chaperones joining us for the trip. Thanks in advance to Mrs. Agrawal, Mr. Fragoso, and Mrs. Bilzc for your willingness to come!
The children made their own aquarium scenes and sea turtles, which look amazing hanging on our back wall. They are also working on an innovation of Eric Carle's, A House for Hermit Crab. We have been learning more about fascinating sea turtles and octopuses too!
The students continue to write in their journals and practice writing the lowercase letters. We will be learning the uppercase letters very soon. Although the children are more familiar and comfortable with these, we are spending quite a bit of time making sure they are forming the letters correctly. We encourage the children to use more lowercase letters in their names. We just started learning how to “tap out” words to read. The students are doing very well with this!
We will be having our Fish Day on Friday, January 23rd. Students will travel around to different Kindergarten classrooms to complete various fish projects. If you are interested in volunteering, please let me know. We are in need of parent helpers from 8:30-9:50am that day.
Please let me know if you are interested in volunteering in the classroom in February. I will be putting my volunteer calendar together next week. The daily volunteer time is from 9:15-9:50am.
The School Used Book Store is Wednesday, January 21. Students may bring either a quarter or a book to trade. It is optional.
Hope you have a great long weekend! No school on Monday!
Melanie Duncan
Kerry Marsh
We have begun our unit on sea life in preparation for our trip to the New England Aquarium on Tuesday, January 27th. Please don’t forget to send in the $13 to cover the cost of the trip. Checks should be made payable to Francis Wyman Kindergarten. We have three chaperones joining us for the trip. Thanks in advance to Mrs. Agrawal, Mr. Fragoso, and Mrs. Bilzc for your willingness to come!
The children made their own aquarium scenes and sea turtles, which look amazing hanging on our back wall. They are also working on an innovation of Eric Carle's, A House for Hermit Crab. We have been learning more about fascinating sea turtles and octopuses too!
The students continue to write in their journals and practice writing the lowercase letters. We will be learning the uppercase letters very soon. Although the children are more familiar and comfortable with these, we are spending quite a bit of time making sure they are forming the letters correctly. We encourage the children to use more lowercase letters in their names. We just started learning how to “tap out” words to read. The students are doing very well with this!
We will be having our Fish Day on Friday, January 23rd. Students will travel around to different Kindergarten classrooms to complete various fish projects. If you are interested in volunteering, please let me know. We are in need of parent helpers from 8:30-9:50am that day.
Please let me know if you are interested in volunteering in the classroom in February. I will be putting my volunteer calendar together next week. The daily volunteer time is from 9:15-9:50am.
The School Used Book Store is Wednesday, January 21. Students may bring either a quarter or a book to trade. It is optional.
Hope you have a great long weekend! No school on Monday!
Melanie Duncan
Kerry Marsh
Aquarium Projects
Our back wall in the classroom is now covered with our sea aquariums and sea turtles. We are getting excited for our trip to the New England Aquarium at the end of the month! We have already learned so much about different sea creatures, especially sea turtles and octopuses!
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Hedgehog Show
Miss P. from the Burlington Science Center came to teach us some neat facts about mammals and some of the animals in Jan Brett's "The Mitten." She also brought a special guest... Luna the Hedgehog! The students enjoyed watching her run around and some even touched her quills!
Friday, January 9, 2015
Winter Artwork
The students have been busy making snowflakes and snowmen! We have more snow in our classroom than we do outside!
January 9, 2015 Newsletter
Dear Parents,
We hope you are enjoying the New Year and all the cold weather we have been having! It is definitely nice to be back in school after a long and restful vacation.
It didn't take the children long to get back into a routine. They have been busy, as usual, and have been working very hard. They have made chubby little snowmen and decorated snowmen to go along with Lois Ehlert's book, Snowballs. They have finished working on two class big books about snowmen and what they wear in the snow. They have written in their journals (we now encourage them to write a whole sentence) and illustrated poetry. We have been focusing more on sight words and have been playing a sight word memory game. I would encourage you to work with your children on the sight words at home too for extra practice.
We will be starting our second unit in Fundations next week and will begin tapping out words. We will also start practicing the uppercase letters soon. The sheets I will send home next week and will continue to send home are for students to practice with at home. They don’t have to come back to school although it’s fine if they do. Please don’t let your students practice the letters they haven’t learned at school yet so that they can learn the proper letter formation first.
We have also begun learning about sea life in preparation for our trip to the New England Aquarium on January 27th. Information about this trip went home yesterday. Please let us know if you are interested in chaperoning for this field trip. I will only be able to take a limited number of chaperones again so I will pick names from a hat if necessary. Please make sure to send the $13 to cover the cost of the trip when you are able to.
We will be having our Fish Day on Friday, January 23rd. Students will get to visit other Kindergarten classrooms to complete various fish projects. We will need extra help that day… probably from around 8:30-9:50am. If you are available and interested in helping, please let me know so I can put you on the schedule.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Melanie Duncan and Kerry Marsh
PS… Please have your child bring in snow gear: boots, gloves or mittens, and hats. When there is snow…the children will not be allowed to play in the snow without snow pants and boots. The office informs us each day whether or not it is too cold to go outside so it is always wise to be prepared each day with warm clothes. It would also be very helpful if you could have your child practice zipping his/her jacket, putting on his/her snow pants and boots, and keeping all gloves or mittens tucked safely in a sleeve or pocket. It is also helpful to write your child’s name on each piece of clothing so they can be returned to them if they get lost. Thank-you!
We hope you are enjoying the New Year and all the cold weather we have been having! It is definitely nice to be back in school after a long and restful vacation.
It didn't take the children long to get back into a routine. They have been busy, as usual, and have been working very hard. They have made chubby little snowmen and decorated snowmen to go along with Lois Ehlert's book, Snowballs. They have finished working on two class big books about snowmen and what they wear in the snow. They have written in their journals (we now encourage them to write a whole sentence) and illustrated poetry. We have been focusing more on sight words and have been playing a sight word memory game. I would encourage you to work with your children on the sight words at home too for extra practice.
We will be starting our second unit in Fundations next week and will begin tapping out words. We will also start practicing the uppercase letters soon. The sheets I will send home next week and will continue to send home are for students to practice with at home. They don’t have to come back to school although it’s fine if they do. Please don’t let your students practice the letters they haven’t learned at school yet so that they can learn the proper letter formation first.
We have also begun learning about sea life in preparation for our trip to the New England Aquarium on January 27th. Information about this trip went home yesterday. Please let us know if you are interested in chaperoning for this field trip. I will only be able to take a limited number of chaperones again so I will pick names from a hat if necessary. Please make sure to send the $13 to cover the cost of the trip when you are able to.
We will be having our Fish Day on Friday, January 23rd. Students will get to visit other Kindergarten classrooms to complete various fish projects. We will need extra help that day… probably from around 8:30-9:50am. If you are available and interested in helping, please let me know so I can put you on the schedule.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Melanie Duncan and Kerry Marsh
PS… Please have your child bring in snow gear: boots, gloves or mittens, and hats. When there is snow…the children will not be allowed to play in the snow without snow pants and boots. The office informs us each day whether or not it is too cold to go outside so it is always wise to be prepared each day with warm clothes. It would also be very helpful if you could have your child practice zipping his/her jacket, putting on his/her snow pants and boots, and keeping all gloves or mittens tucked safely in a sleeve or pocket. It is also helpful to write your child’s name on each piece of clothing so they can be returned to them if they get lost. Thank-you!
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