March 9 - 20

A PEEK AT THIS WEEK
Stories of old taught many good lessons such as telling the truth, learning about safety around strangers, being a hard worker and making good choices. As I share these wonderful stories, I hope to have the children discover the values hidden within these great stories.

A PEEK AT NEXT WEEK
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! We will begin next week with some leprechaun mischief! A wee little fellow lost his fairy dust in our room along with his special recipe for a magical treat! We will mix up and taste test his treasure to see if we like it too! Counting gold by 2’s, then practicing adding and subtraction with the pieces will be part of our math activities on Monday. The rest of the week we will finish our unit on fairy tales.

NEED FOR SLEEP
Teachers attended a great workshop last year on brain development. I learned lots of interesting information. One message that I would like to pass on is that each child needs a good night of sleep (10 – 12 hours) so their brain can process the skills they have learned each day. With the change to daylight savings time it is hard to get children to bed on time, but nevertheless your child will benefit from being tucked in early.

DATES TO REMEMBER

March 13 Book order is due
March 20 School will be start at 11:20. Teachers will have a workshop in the morning.
March 30 School pictures will be taken.
April 6&7 Parent/teacher conferences at 3 :15 -8:15 ( School will be held during the day)
April 8-12 Spring break
April 13 Make-up day – school will be held

VOCABULARY WORDS FOR THE WEEK
Our words for this week are poem and circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, diamond or rhombus, sphere, cone, rectangular box, cylinder and cube.