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Scarlet and Gray Newsletter
February 29th to March 4th, 2016
Volume 19, Issue 26
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Monday
Tuesday
We wrote weekend news. We greeted classmates, sang
‘Grand Old Flag’, said our class promise and did calendar.
We sang our ‘Days’ and ‘Months’ songs, subitized to 1-12
dots, read our popcorn words, did our ABC chart, sang
our vowel song and reviewed our habits of thinkers. Our
kindergartner of the week shared his/her poster and we
wrote a sentence about him/her using interactive writing.
We learned our new popcorn word ‘up’ and did rainbow
writing of it. We learned that good readers make
predictions. We made predictions before reading Arthur’s
Underwear by Marc Brown. We also graphed our
predictions about whether March will come in like a lion
or a lamb. We were introduced to our new poem
‘Leprechaun, Leprechaun’. The AM class did literacy
workshop and watched ‘Geena’s Tremendous Tooth
Adventure’. The PM class had library and watched an
interview with Marc Brown. We had recess. We heard
more Newsminutes presentations.
We did our final living/nonliving activity. We greeted our
friends, read and sang America the Beautiful, said our
class promise and did calendar. We counted to 100 by
ones and read our popcorn words. We did our ABC charts
with digraphs and reviewed the habits of thinkers. We
checked our prediction from yesterday about March
coming in like a lion or a lamb. We read Living Things Are
Everywhere! Our kindergartner of the week shared a
science image. We wrote a sentence about him/her using
interactive writing. We wrote about the science image in
our writing books. We read Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss,
our March author. We did speedwriting of our popcorn
word. We read Wind! , did shared reading and made paper
kites. We did literacy workshop. The AM class had recess.
We solved our mystery number and did McDonald’s French
fry addition. The PM class did monster eye addition.
Wednesday
The morning class began with monster eye addition. The
PM class began by writing a sentence using our popcorn
word. We greeted one another, sang ‘America the
Beautiful’, said our class promise and did calendar. We
counted to 100 by fives and tens and read our popcorn
words. We did ‘Action Alphabet’. We reviewed the habits of
thinkers. Our kindergartner of the week brought in
something for us to estimate and we wrote a sentence
about him/her using interactive writing. We sequenced the
lines of our poem. Mrs. Williams was our guest reader for
Dr. Seuss’s birthday. She read Horton Hears a Who! We did
literacy workshop. The morning class did an activity sheet
using the popcorn word ‘up’. We read Investigate Sound
and we explored various musical instruments and how they
produce sound. We determined our mystery number and
we did ladybug addition.
Thursday
We greeted classmates, sang ‘America the Beautiful’,
said our class promise and did calendar. We counted
backwards from 20, subitized ten frames and read our
popcorn words. We did blend cards and reviewed
habits of thinkers. Our kindergartner of the week
shared something for social studies and we wrote a
sentence about him/her using interactive writing.
Then we wrote a sentence about her independently.
We predicted what might happen before we read
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. We read,
highlighted the popcorn words in and illustrated our
poem. We did literacy. The AM class had library.
The PM class read Music Is In the Air and made our
own musical instruments.
Friday
We started off with four bean addition. We had Family Friday. We greeted each other, sang ‘America the Beautiful’, said our class pledge and did calendar. We counted on from three different numbers, read our popcorn words and reviewed our habits of thinkers. We highlighted the popcorn words in and read ‘Look Up! We did shared reading and read Country Mouse, City Mouse. The AM class read Music Is In the Air and made musical instruments. The PM class had library. We practiced writing our first and last names in D’Nealian handwriting. We did fitness. Contact Info:
Voicemail:
760-6298
E-MAIL:
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dublinschools.net
REMINDERS:
MONDAY:
Homework Due
A DAY: Library Books
Due
FRIDAY:
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Wear Tennis
shoes for
Fitness
Book Pockets
Due
(beginning in
November)
PLEASE REMEMBER
TO STORE LIBRARY
BOOKS AND BOOK
POCKETS IN
BOOKBAGS TO
PREVENT LOSS OR
DAMAGE.
We’re on the Web!
See us at:
www.dublinschools.
net/oldesawmill
Dear Parents,
If you are interested in the latest information on redistricting for the 2016-17
school year, it is available at this site:
http://www.dublinschools.net/k8redistricting2015.aspx
Second trimester grade cards went home on Friday. Please remove and
review the contents, sign the empty envelope and return it to school on
Monday. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Upcoming Dates:
March 21st to 25th – No School – Spring Break
March 29th – Spring Picture Day – forms to come home at a later date
April 16th – OSU Spring Game – optional field trip – details to come after
spring break.
Thanks to our volunteers this week: Mrs. Shea, Mrs. Smialek, Mrs.
Jackson and Mrs. White.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Go Bucks!
Vianne