April 9-13

I hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend. The weather was beautiful! I am so excited for Spring and the nice warmer weather. I think the kids are too!

This week was off to a rocky start with children distracted and unable to focus in the classroom. I appreciate the parent support from those whom I spoke with. I am looking forward to a great week and getting much accomplished.

It is hard to believe that there is roughly 5 weeks left!! My how time has flown. We have much to do this final leg of the relay ;) Our focus is to get every child reading 60 words per minute. The IRI (state testing) will begin the week of the 24th. Your child is required to read 53 words per minute to be at grade level by the end of first grade. We are also focusing on addition and subtraction strategies. I am excited to say that our first grade team has decided to offer math learning groups on Fridays to help differentiate instruction for our first graders. We would love to have parents available to help with these learning groups. If you are available on Friday afternoons, please let us know.

We are pressing forward with our play. It has been a challenge, but many students have been working very hard to earn this opportunity. We will be presenting it this Thursday, April 12th. There are two times. However, your child will not be performing in both plays. Please note the time your child will be performing so you don't miss it. It will last approximately 15 minutes. You are invited to attend, but it is a simple presentation that I choose to do each year for the Kindergarten classes to introduce first grade to them. It gets them excited for reading and the first grade experience. Please help your child practice their lines this week. If they can memorize it, great! If not, it is not a problem, they can read their parts.

Have a great SPRING week! I am very excited for the warm weather.