We have had a very busy week in Room 115! The children continue to create wonderful artifacts for our museum. We have spent most of the week 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 11th to see all the students’ hard work! It will be from 8:30-9:15am.
The students are almost done with their All I Am books and will bring them home next week. 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 this week. 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 enjoyed watching another snake feeding this week. We also started learning more about the seven continents. We have read books and written facts in our continent books about Africa, Australia, and Antarctica and will learn about the rest during the next couple of weeks.
Progress reports for grades 1-5 will go home on Monday. Kindergarten won’t have another progress report until the end of the year. I will be scheduling conferences that will take place during the end of March and beginning of April. There isn’t a specific day set aside for conferences so I will be scheduling some after school and will try to do some for classroom volunteers while students are at recess. I will send the schedule home next week. If you can’t make it at that time, please let me know and we can reschedule. If it is easier too, we could talk over the phone, although it is nice to meet in person and look at student work in the classroom. I do feel that it is important for us to meet to discuss your child’s progress before the end of the year.
Don’t forget that the Francis Wyman Family Carnival is tomorrow from 10am-2pm. I plan to be there and would love to see you all there too! There are a lot of fun things to do and a bunch of really nice raffles!
We are going to the library on Wednesday. Please return library books and all class books too.
Have a great weekend!
Melanie Duncan
PS….Don’t forget to change your clocks this weekend...and get your shovels ready too!
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