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Don’t be scared by the subject! There are still 44 days left this school year! But, we have come to the end of the Kindergarten literacy home activities! I have some first grade activities that would be appropriate to keep plugging ahead with that I will send home. Most of these activities are beginning of first grade/review of Kindergarten activities. The difference being that the first grade activities mention using letter “tiles” rather than the blue plastic letters you have been using. For the most part, substituting the letters you have will work just fine. In a few instances though, it may suggest you work on words that have, for example, 2 t’s…and you don’t have 2 t’s! You must decide for yourself if you would like to play the games and just skip the words that use any double letters, play the games and substitute letters you might have around the house (magnetic letters for the fridge, scrabble letters, etc.), or not play the games at all and send your blue letters back to school. It is up to you.

 There are still a few more math games for K so keep your frogs for now even if you decide to send the letters back.

Your child is bringing home a plastic cup today. While this may seem odd, when you ask your child to tell you about Mr. Steve who visited our classroom this afternoon to do some science experiments with us, you will understand what the cup is for. Have fun playing with water this weekend!

The kids are bringing home a 3-D Shape Hunt homework paper tonight. This is totally optional and certainly not expected back tomorrow. If you choose to do this activity with your child, please try to get it back to me by the end of the week. Thanks!

First, conferences are coming up soon. As you read in the Sheehan News, they will be on the afternoon of April 7 and the afternoon and evening of April 14. Please drop me a comment, or an email, or a note in your child’s VIP tomorrow to let me know which day is better for you and if the 14th is better, let me know if you would prefer afternoon or evening. Once I receive everyone’s request, I’ll assign times and will send home a confirmation. I’d like to get the confirmations home by Wednesday and back by Friday to give me plenty of time to make changes if necessary. Please also note that evening times are typically in high demand so if you were given an evening conference in the fall, you will not be given an evening conference in the spring.

Second, it is with great sadness that I announce that Tuesday will be Mrs. Hanlon’s last day in our classroom. She will be going back to the preschool full time on Wednesday. The children will be making Thank You cards for her in class tomorrow and we will be creating a small class gift for her that will be presented to her on Tuesday.

Online ordering is all set for the Scholastic Book Orders. I’ll leave it open until Monday afternoon. And in case anyone is wondering, if you are looking at ordering books from the Just-Right Nonfiction form, most of the kids in our class are reading books in the A-D range (meaning they would be able to read many of the words in these books but not all, the pictures are highly supportive of the text, and many will have repetitive patterns that will help them figure out tricky words). A few kids are ready for E and F books as well. Hope that helps when ordering books that kids can can or soon will be able to read independently, or with just a little help.