Welcome Back!

I hope that everyone had a restful, and fun-filled mid-winter break!

The Monday back from break happened to be our 100th day of school (already)! The students in Basic Skills incorporated a count down for the 100th day during Math, and we were all very excited about it. Students participated in the celebration, which included them making Fruit Loop necklaces, which many were clever and pre-counted 100 Fruit Loops before making their necklace. There were also 'hidden' sticker dots numbered #1-100, and they went around the room with clipboards and a #1-100 grid to cross off every time they found a number. All students enjoyed this type of "treasure hunt." Tomorrow we will collect the stickers dots and place them on a large #1-100 grid. Miss. Kelley has warned that we will most likely not find all numbers, and will search for it throughout the week. :)

Students (on Monday) in Basic Skills also finished the sentence, "On the 100th day of school I..." and a popular choice was to mention making the Fruit Loop necklaces. One student completed the sentence in all honesty, "On the 100th day of school I did not want to come to school." :) Understandable after a long break. This was made into a booklet that the students can look at during Reading or their free time.

We have also wrapped up our Science unit with animals, including: goldfish/platys, land and water snails, Earthworms and Nightcrawlers, and Isopods -- pillbugs/sowbugs. On Tuesday the K/1 class filled out two large posters full of what we learned about animals (in general) to complete our K (know) W (want to learn) L (learned) chart about Animals!

This Thursday, a parent volunteer from a different class will be coming in to help with an Art Project, which is for the Art Auction/Walk* at the end of the year. It will be a surprise for all of us, and I'm sure it will turn out great!

*Not yet confirmed.

Thursday is also our Black History Month Assembly at 1:30-2:00 PM.

Our thoughts are with Miss. Kelley as she had her surgery on Tuesday, and called the school to reassure us that she is doing well! The students think it is pretty cool for Miss. Kelley to be on crutches once she gets back on Monday. :)

Have a great rest of the week! We can't believe it's almost March!

FYI: This is just an extra something to read and let you be a little more involved in the classroom. This includes both the Kindergarten Basic Skills class as well as the K/1 split, just to make it clear. :)