May 30, 2025

 

How nice to see the sun and have some heat this past week!!!

This will be my last newsletter of the year. I can't believe it! 

We are going to be exploring force and motion next week and I am asking if they have a matchbox type toy car to bring it in. It will be a fun study! 

Thank you for such a wonderful year in kindergarten! We have reached the end of our time together and I want to tell you how honored I am to have been able to spend every day with your precious children. 

I will still see them in the hallway and on the playground. I will watch them grow from afar. I am a cheerleader forever for them! 

Have a safe and fun summer~Best to you all! 

Sarah

Upcoming Events

June 17- Last day of school- 1/2 day-dismissal @ noon 

May 2, 2025

 

Dear Families,

Wow-it has been a while since my last "official" newsletter! Sorry. It has been a little overwhelming as of late outside of school, but your students have continued to learn and grow and reach while in my absence. They really are amazing!

I will not be in the classroom on May 15, 16, and 19. It is time to do Kindergarten screening again already! This year is flying by...

We got to make stone soup this week after a deep dive into the stories and the similarities and differences of each book. Such a wonderful story about sharing and friendship. 

In math we are working on daily routines, using teen numbers, writing numbers to 100, exploring 3D shapes, and solving word problems in different ways. 

For writing, we are naming parts of a sentence, name action words (verbs), write sentences that rhyme, use size words to describe, and edit their work. 

We have had a tremendous time with our study is biodiversity in our mission to Borneo with our Go2Science program! We have been super busy here at school working on our hypothesis and deciding if it is true or false...it is still too early to tell!  

The world is waking up! Spring is upon us and seems that it wants to be super wet and cool. PLEASE dress your child appropriately for the weather and assure they have extra clothes if they should get wet. 

Assessments begin next week as we head into the last couple of weeks of kindergarten and begin thinking about first grade! Oh my!

Have a wonderful weekend and please be safe! 

Upcoming Events

May 26- No School Memorial Day

June 17- Last day of school- 1/2 day-dismissal @ noon 

April 11, 2025

 

It has been such a colorful Eat the Rainbow week here at school!!! We have had fun trying many different fruits and vegetables that arrive at the end of the day for us. On blue and purple day we actually got to eat blueberry ice cream!!!! Wow! Learning to eat the rainbow will help us be our best healthy selves! 

This week has been filled with our weather unit we have started in science. We are learning all about different kinds of weather we have and why we experience it. This week we began our third and final mission with Go2 Science. Beth and Curtis are taking us to Borneo to study biodiversity. The hypothesis for the mission is: Forests with large trees will have greater biodiversity than forests with smaller trees. We are going to learn so much about so much!!! The children are excited to get started! (and so am I).

We are continuing to practice reading like we are talking instead of word by word and making those sight words more automatic so we don't trip over them when reading our stories.  We took a deep dive into the many variations of the story Stone Soup and will be making our own stone soup next week! 

In writing we are naming different parts of a sentence, naming who or what the sentence is about, and naming the action word, or verb, in a sentence. There is a lot to unpack and understand. 

In math we are working with teen numbers, formation of numbers, addition and subtraction practice, graphing pets, counting and number recognition through graphing , solving number problems, and continuing our calendar routines. Our routines at calendar time include; counting to the calendar number of the day, weather observations, tracking the number of days we have been in school, patterned 10 frames, tally marks, money, and days of the week. 

Please make sure (as we approach mud season) that your child has dry clothes in case a change is needed. Also, it isn't the warm part of spring yet. It is still quite chilly and the expectation still includes boots, jackets, hats, and mittens. 

Upcoming Events:

April 21-25- April Vacation

May 26- No School- Memorial Day

March 21, 2025

 

Just a couple of reminders this week! 

Monday we are heading to Morse High School for a Kinderconzert about Burt Dow- Deep Water Man. Please do your best to have your child to school on time so they don't miss the bus! We will leave shortly after arrival. 

Thursday will be a 1/2 day of school and I look forward to seeing you at our conference. 

Friday will also be a 1/2 day of school. 

Have a wonderful weekend! Sarah

March 13, 2025

 

Dear Family, 

Remember NO SCHOOL for students tomorrow-March 14, 2025~ 

Enjoy your extended weekend!

Upcoming Events: 

 Friday March 14-No School- Teacher Inservice

Monday March 24-Travel to Morse for a Kinderconzert

March 27- Parent/Teacher Conferences***1/2 day for students

March 28-***1/2 day for students

April 21-25 April Vacation

March 7, 2025

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Such a fun and busy week! 

I am looking for 2 people who would like to join our class to go to Morse High School on March 24th to a Kinderconzert. Time commitment is approximately 9 am to 10:30. Send me an email if interested. If I get too many requests I will draw names from a hat! Thanks for your consideration. 

We have been reading many Dr. Seuss books and celebrating him as a reader and illustrator. Iconic for us all! Read Across America week was full of fun celebrations ending with book character dress up day. Wow, the kids LOVE being at school all dressed up! 

The Chickadee Reading program also kicked off this week. We will have guest readers from around the school sharing the Chickadee nominated books that are up for a vote this year. We will be able to cast our own votes here at WCS and see how we stack up against the rest of the state. We sure are reading up a storm here this week! 

Assessments have eaten up a majority of our time this week. I am so excited to share the results with you~

Conference times are opening today for our parent/teacher conferences on March 27th. I can't wait to meet with you all and talk about how kindergarten is going. 

Upcoming Events: 

 Friday March 14-No School- Teacher Inservice

Monday March 24-Travel to Morse for a Kinderconzert

March 27- Parent/Teacher Conferences***1/2 day for students

March 28-***1/2 day for students

April 21-25 April Vacation

February 25, 2025

 

Wow! Last day of February!!! Happy March tomorrow (Rabbit! Rabbit!) 

Hoping everyone had a fun February Vacation! We have had a VERY busy week since coming back from that break. The trimester is ending in a couple of weeks and it will be time to meet again at parent/teacher conferences~keep an eye out for the sign-up times for that day. I can't wait to share with you all of the growth your students have made since the last time we chatted. I'm so proud of them! 

We have been discussing dental health and the importance of taking care of our teeth. Also, much speculation about what the Tooth Fairy does with all of those teeth! I'm amazed that some of the students got upwards of $500.00 from her! Things have definitely changed since I was a wee lass! 

We finished our Go2Science mission in French Polynesia and will dive into the data next week to determine whether our hypothesis is true or false. We have one more mission this school year and that will be to Borneo to learn about biodiversity. Stay tuned! 

Please check that your child has an extra set of dry clothes here and also that their p.e. shoes still fit! Wow we are having growth spurts!!!

Upcoming Events:

March 3-7 -Read Across America Festivities (See attached schedule)

March 14- No School- Professional Development Day

March 24- Kinderconcert @ Morse (Details to come)

March 27 & 28- 1/2 Days of School- Parent Teacher conferences