K Update

This week we are saying goodbye to March....hoping that April will bring us some spring weather! We've been counting up "Lion and Lamb" days for the month of March. It seems like there have been an abundance of days that feel like a "lion"! We will be graphing our results on Friday.  

Conference times came home today in the folders. I am looking forward to meeting with everyone next week!

*News from Mrs. Slamar - Art*

SJCA K-12 will have an art show at the Anderson Art Center in Kenosha from April 10 - June 5.  We will be setting the show up on Thurs. March 31.  The Opening Reception will be on Sun. April 10th.  We have several students with work included in this show.....congrats to the follwing students: Marco, Blake, Emily, Ella, Jack, Adriana, Lauren, Peter, Katelyn, & Mikayla!!!!!! :) 

Reading:

• We are continuing with the theme of "Weather"
• We'll be reading stories and using vocabulary that goes with weather and the four seasons
• Look for new readers to come home tomorrow. Please notice that these readers are a "new" level for all the children. Some of the words may be more challenging for them as we start off. 
• I am very proud that all the children showed improvement in their reading levels! I am looking forward to sharing all their improvements with you during conferences next week. 

Math:

• We are finishing up with clocks and time
• Students can practice time on IXL in the pre-K or K levels
• We started the fact families last week. You should have found a few copies of the form in the student folders on Friday. We'll be trying out different numbers each week and I will send them some for the students to practice memorizing. 
• Students will begin to practice addition on IXL...they can also do this at home. 

Writing:

• This week we will be writing about weather
• On Friday we will be writing letters to some special SJCA helpers 

Science:

• We are completing a look at the 5 senses
• Today we talked about healthy foods and sorted healthy and unhealthy foods

Social Studies:

• We are creating books to represent each student's "world". We'll start with "me" and then move to my family, my home, my school, my neighborhood, my city, my state, my country, my continent, my world.
• Today we worked on the next two pages of our book (my home and my school)

Religion:

• We'll be reviewing our Lenten promises this week
• We will  attend the Stations on Friday
• Next, we will start to look at Holy week

*********Volunteers ARE STILL needed starting April.....we will be having 3 special Sciences days coming up with Mrs. Chris (Peter's mom). She and a handful of her Carthage students are coming to do some fun experiments with the kids. We will need a few extra sets of hands for the experiments. The dates are April 5th, 12th, & 19th from 12:30 - 2:00. Please let me know if you are interested in joining us!********