April 20th!

Thank you so much for coming to our Kindergarten Dinosaur Exhibit on Friday.  The children were so very excited to share their projects and work.  I hope you enjoyed visiting our classroom as much as we enjoyed having you! :)

This week we will be spending time learning about ways to help protect our earth.  We will read about reducing, reusing, and recycling in honor of Earth Day.  Throughout the week, our school will be encouraging Litterless Lunches.  It can be quite tricky, but see what types of choices you can make to reduce producing trash each day.  We will talk about some ideas throughout the week.  We are also taking care of some small plants that will be placed in our garden.  The children are in charge of keeping these plants alive.  I often fail at this endeavor, but the children will keep me on track! :)

This week we will also get back into the swing of our Daily Five Literacy rotations and our new Writing Unit on persuasive/opinion writing.  Get ready ~ your children will be learning all about the power of persuasion and why backing up an idea with many different 'reasons' is important!  Don't be surprised if they begin trying to 'persuade' you to get a new pet or to paint their room a different color soon!  We will work on this new writing unit throughout April and May.

I am looking forward to another great week in kindergarten!

Sincerely,
Eileen Browne 

April 13th

Welcome back!  I hope you all had a great week off with your families and friends.  It looks like our spring weather has finally arrived which will be terrific for outdoor recess time as school each day. :)

This week we will settle back into our kindergarten routines.  We will be very busy preparing for our Dinosaur Exhibit!  Our kindergarten exhibit will begin promptly at 2 pm this Thursday and will last approximately 30 minutes.  We will sing a song and then the children will show off their various dinosaur projects.   As you can imagine, they are very excited and proud of their work!

Throughout the week we will spend time working as readers, writers, and mathematicians.  Our weekly reading calendars will again be sent home.  Please be sure to spend time with books each night and have your child color in the reading calendar.  We will also begin to focus on lowercase letters a lot more during writing time...especially when writing our names.  Please encourage this skill at home too.  You can practice using markers, crayons, paint, white boards, play dough, shaving cream, sand writing...   There are many ways to play while writing :)

Thank you for your support!

Sincerely,
Eileen Browne

PS  "Paws/Pause for Reading" is a new idea at Eagle.  We are encouraging students and staff to take time to 'pause' and read each day.  We are creating a bulletin board filled with pictures of animals reading books! If you have a pet or a favorite stuffed animal, please take a picture of it reading.  We will add all pictures to our school's bulletin board in the front entrance area. :)