March 5
A PEEK AT THIS WEEK AND LAST WEEK TOO
This week has just flown by. We finished our theme “This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land” by learning about Minnesota and Parkers Prairie. A new book about our town will be making its way to your home soon. We celebrated Minnesota by making blueberry muffins, our state muffin and drinking milk, our state beverage. Our road trip was a hit with everyone arriving home, safe and sound.
Not only did we travel across the country, but we also “Read Across America” on Tuesday, March 2nd. We honored Dr. Seuss’ birthday by reading with students from Mrs. Carlson’s 1st grade class. What an amazing sight to see our room full of great readers sharing their joys of reading with each other.
BOOK FAIR DINER: ALL YOU CAN READ
Friday night will be the last night of the Scholastic Book Fair at the library. Come and enjoy Family Night from 6-7 p.m. There will be Shake, Rock & Roll games for children Drop in to see what is being cooked up! Then enjoy the Prairie Fire Children’s theatre performance of the Wizard of Oz at 7 p.m. in the new gym.
CONFERENCE TIME CHANGE
Conferences have been rescheduled to April 7 & 8 due to basketball hopes of being state bound!
KINDERGARTEN TEAM WORK
It is our goal to help our students grow with their literacy skills. Mrs. Erickson, our paraprofessionals, and I will be working together to provide specific procedures to reach this goal for each child. Some activities include putting on plays using reader’s theatre, partner reading, playing a variety of games to target specific skills and using the CCC computer lab to provide individual skill work for each child. I know this will be a wonderful reading adventure for the children!
LOOKING AHEAD
“Stories Old” is our theme for next week. We will read and discuss several folk tales. The Three Bears will be our focus next week. Lots of fun activities are planned for this unit. My favorite is having the children act out the story of the “Three Bears.” We will finish the week by making porridge and sampling it just like Goldilocks. We will also read several other folk tales throughout the day.
Have a Great Weekend!
Julie Duberowski
