K-C News
December 21, 2018
Now, this is all you REALLY need to know.
What you kind of need to know
In honor of reaching the end of the year together, my gift to you is a brief(ish) newsletter.
I hope you all have plenty of family time to relax and enjoy and watch movies and eat cookies. I look forward to hearing about everyone's time away from school when we return on January 2.We will be writing about our vacation adventures, so talk it up on New Year's day! Thank you to all for supporting our learning and growth this year. Your children are wonderful and I am grateful to spend time with them every day as another new year begins.
Thank you to our mystery readers: Kacey (Maddie), Yasmine (Bremmer), and Melissa (Claire) who shared Mother Bruce, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Learning to Ski with Mr. McGee.
Our friend Omar will be returning to Egypt with his family for most of the winter and spring. We will miss him and look forward to seeing him again soon.
Happy Birthday to our newest six year olds Lanna and Claire, and to Shayne and Emma who will turn six while we are on vacation!
Coming attractions
December 22, 2018 - January 1, 2019
NO SCHOOL, winter break
Wednesday, January 2
School resumes
Monday, January 21
NO SCHOOL. MLK Jr. Day
Wednesday, January 30
"EARLY" RELEASE at 12:15
Tuesday, February 12
Early release at 12:15
February 16-24
NO SCHOOL, February break
All in a days work...
- Our nocturnal animals study took a crafty turn these past weeks. We have filled our bulletin boards with foxes, raccoons, bats, owls and opossums, and we made them all by collaging, cutting, and painting shapes (circles, triangles, squares and cylinders).
- Mrs. Martell, our technology teacher, came to our classroom with Beebots (little robots that look like bees) to introduce us to coding. In December, all schools across the country are invited to join in an hour of code challenges. We learned to give our Beebots commands in order to reach a destination.
- We have begun to practice solving addition problems using two colored collections to combine addends to make sums.
- All of our repeated routines are really paying off. Your children are now ridiculously skilled at reading the morning message and daily schedule and have come a long way in calendar writing all the way to 31. We have also almost completed our lower case alphabet instruction, so the handwriting bar will be raised going forward into 2019!
Links to explore
Practice writing your lower case letters!
Interested in coding at home?
Try this!
Build cool pictures with shapes!
click and drag on the colored shapes to make an original work of art
The things kids say. For real.
Student 1: I know this story. Olive isn't a reindeer, it's a dog.
Mrs. Cohen: Well, even if you know the story, keep it a surprise for everyone else.
Student 1: Too late now.