Parent Volunteers Needed

Celebrate Dr. Seuss with Us!

Dr. Seuss was such an influential part of our history and an inspiration to many.  We will be celebrating his life next week by reading lots of Seuss’ classics. 

Monday, March 1oth, I would like to continue our celebration by inviting you to lead an activity with your favorite Dr. Seuss book!  If you would like to volunteer to read a Dr. Seuss book and organize an art activity or fun snack that goes with the story please email me and let me know as soon as possible!  (PINTEREST has some great ideas for Dr. Seuss activities!!!)

I would like to do 3 rotations in the morning, and then 3 more in the afternoon, so a total of 6 different books. If you can come from 9:30-11:00 or from 2:00-3:30, please let me know.  Each rotation will be half an hour.  Some books that I think would be great, that we are not reading next week are:

Horton Hears a Who!

One Fish, Two Fish

Oh the Places You’ll Go

The Sneetches

Horton Hatches the Egg

Bartholomew and the Ooblek

Email me as soon as possible to let me know the book you would like to focus on as well as the time that you are available to come and help!  If you need any ideas for the activities let us know!

Dr. Seuss Week

Dr. Seuss week March 3^rd-7^th

Diffendoofer Day Monday - Today, wear lots of bright colors, stripes, polka dots, etc. Diffendoofer school is all about being happy, loving to learn and being unique!  Hooray for Diffendoofer Day

Top hat Tuesday~ Today, wear a hat in honor of Dr Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat. 

Wacky Wednesday~ Today make sure to wear Silly Socks and wacky clothes and we will have a relaxed reading time in our socks with Seuss books.

The Lorax Thursday -  “Go Green” with the Lorax as we learn the importance of being environmentally friendly from Dr. Seuss.  Wear your favorite green outfit!

Green Eggs and Ham Frday~ Today we will focus on the book "Green Eggs and Ham and make Green Eggs and Ham, we also wear our pajamas to school!!!! 

Artist in Residence

This week we have a special guest who is working with us to become better writers. Richard Krawiec is a published author and is spending the week with the kindergartners.  Today we acted out a story, "The Talking Yam", and are going to write a story this week about an object that talks!

  

                                    

                                                  

Arts Night

Thursday, February 27th we will have Arts Night at Douglas from 6:00-7:30.  Come join us as we celebrate the arts!

Follow My Blog through Email

Life can get a little crazy sometimes, so it is understandable to forget to check my blog for updates.  You can follow my blog by entering your email address on the right-hand sidebar, then you will get an email whenever I create a new post on the blog!  

Sight Words

Make sure you are helping your child succeed in school by practicing their sight words as often as possible.  You can make flash cards with the words inside their folder, or let them play online games to practice!

Here are some links to help you get started (we are working on Pre-Primer Dolch Words):

ABCya Sight Word Practice
Dinosaur Eggs
Starfall

Kindergarten Informance

                                                        

The kids did a great job yesterday at their first informance!  

Thanks to everyone who made it to Douglas to enjoy the show!  

                                               

Kindergarten Informance

Don't forget about the Kindergarten Informance tomorrow at 1:15 in the gym.  Hope you can make it!

Scholastic Book Orders

 I am a HUGE fan of Scholastic Book Orders!  Not only does your child get to pick out new, exciting books to read, but we receive free books for our classroom library.

You can order books from Scholastic two different ways.  You can complete the order form and return it to school with a check made out to “Scholastic” and I will mail your order in to Scholastic.

OR you can go online to: http://www.scholastic.com/home/, click on “Parents” and then “Order from Reading Club Flyer”.  Our classroom code is HLQNM.

Scholastic has great resources for parents, so take a look around their website if you have some free time!

We will be sending home the Scholastic order forms tomorrow in your child's folder.

Valentine's Day Card Exchange

Happy Valentine's Day!!  We will exchange Valentine's cards the first day we are back to school next week.  Hope you all have had fun and safe snow days!!

Friday, February 14th

This Friday, February 14th is Valentine's Day and Early Release!  We will be exchanging Valentines in class so please make sure you have one for each child.  There are 23 students in our class, if you need another class list please let me know.  HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!

100th Day of School Celebration!

         

                                     

Today we celebrated our 100th day of school!  Thanks so much to all of the parents who donated items and a HUGE thank you to Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Davis, and Mrs. Denning for being able to help out this morning.  The kids had a blast!

 

Snowglobes!

After reading "The Snowglobe Family" we wrote about what we would do if we lived inside a snowglobe!

100th Day of School Donations

Just a reminder that we will be celebrating the 100th day of school on Monday, February 10th.  If you would like to volunteer please send me an email.  Also, we will be having a special snack that afternoon so any of the following items would be greatly appreciated:

• pretzel sticks
• marshmallows
• chocolate chips
• m&ms
• teddy grahams
• goldfish
• popcorn
• fruit loops
• cheerios
• raisins

Thanks!