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Our Kindergarten Yearbook is on sale!!!  This softback, colorful photobook will be a wonderful way for you and your child to remember this magical year of Kindergarten. Please order one by Thursday, April 29 while we have access to the Mother's Day Sale offered by Shutterfly ($15.99 per book). The yearbook will be available after the 29th, but the cost will go up slightly.Order forms went home last week, and we will send another round home this week, in case you misplaced it.

This week in language arts, we will focus on the short /e/ sound. Short /e/ can be very tricky when it comes to spelling, because it sounds very similar to the short /i/ sound. Please use this video short to help your child practice at home. You can also give them rhyming words with the /e/ to try to spell (i.e. pet, vet, met or pen, men, then) for practice.

This first week of Spring, we will be doing a variety of special activities to celebrate the new season! We have been learning about the winds of March, and will create items that can catch the wind. In science we will experiment more with the forces of push and pull.

Two very special events will occur on Thursday (which is the last day of school for students before Spring Break). The first is the K-Team's first-ever Spring-Fling Fruit Fair. Three of the K classes will rotate between rooms and do fun learning activites with unusual fruits. If you are available to help out with this event, please contact us as soon as you can. Also on Thursday, Mrs. C is planning a Lunch Bunch Easter Egg Hunt for those students who stayed on green behavior for the month of March.

Our class has submitted an entry to our school science fair, which will be held today. If you get a chance, stop by the school to see our information board. If you cannot make it, just have a look at this video:

What will happen when you put Mentos candies into various liquids?

As Spring comes on the scene, we wave a fond farewell to the beautiful blizzards of 2010.

As we begin our math money unit next week, our plan is to open a School Store in our classroom. The students will earn coins in class each day. They will make their own origami wallets to keep their coins in, and will be allowed to purchase an item from the store to keep. Here is where we could use your help! If you can, please send in small, inexpensive items for the School Store. School supplies, like small rulers, pencils, erasers , etc. are ideal. Or other dollar store items that have several items in one package for a dollar (i.e. bubbles, bracelets, socks, matchbox cars, etc.). No candy please! We would truly appreciate your help with bringing this money unit to life.