Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work everyday some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

February 20

Hello Families:

I apologize for my delay in writing a new post. February has been quite a busy month for us in kindergarten. It was wonderful to see you all at conferences on February 7 and 8. I was so proud to share each student's growth with you.

Thank you to those families who came to the Lincoln Center Family Spaghetti Dinner and Silent Auction on February 3. The students will benefit tremendously from your donations through new books, technology equipment and other various learning materials.

We had a blast celebrating Valentine's Day together on February 14th. We talked a lot about friendships and celebrating each others presence in our lives. Making valentines gave us great practice with writing our names and our friend's names.
We were also very excited to celebrate the 100th day of kindergarten. This day was a great day of pride in our academic growth. We had so much fun visiting each kindergarten classroom and participating in seven different 100's day activities:
  • making 100's day crowns
  • rolling dice to 100 on a 100's grid
  • finding/recognizing numbers on a 100's grid that we could color in to make 100
  • reading stories about 100's day
  • writing about what we will do when we turn 100
  • drawing what we will look like at 100
  • drawing what foods we could eat 100 of
Here we are 100 days smarter:

Another fun activity that we like to do during reading time is to take white boards and practice writing the words we can read from the books in our book boxes. I think we could sit all day and practice reading and writing on whiteboards. Look at our beautiful handwriting!


Stay tuned for upcoming reminders about our field trip to Warner Nature Center on March 1 and 2. Enjoy an extra day of snowy fun at home--remember there is no school for students no February 21 because of Staff Development.

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