Classroom News
Dr.J's News
Submitted by Dr Jermihov on Mon, 2008-09-29 11:04.
Pre-K:
Our Pre-K children are learning how to use their "singing" voices with
their new song, "Clap Your Hands." They began to explore the sounds of
our music instruments (hand drums, triangles, maracas, and tambourines).
Kindergarten:
The Kindergarten students are focusing on the beat in music. They are
learning to chant, dance, and play the xylophone on the beat.
First Grade:
The First Graders are playing two part accompaniment for their song "Little Wheel A-Turning."
Important Dates & Quick Notes
Submitted by Mrs Khan on Thu, 2008-02-14 15:27.
Jan 15: Test Day (Reading Fluency, Math and Phonics Test No. 4s)
Jan 16: No School
Jan 19: No School
Jan 20: Inauguration Day...
             ~ We mail out the letter to President-elect Barack Obama!
             ~ We begin our Fairy Tale Read Alouds...Â
Jan 22: Quarter 2 Ends!
Jan 29: Report Cards Come Home
Jan 30: Science "Sounds Like Fun" Field Trip - In house...
I also wanted to share ~
Kindergarten Happenings
Submitted by Mrs Shankar on Sun, 2009-01-04 16:29.Dear Parents,Â
Happy New Year to you all! I hope each of you and your families have enjoyed this holiday season and are off to a great 2009. School resumes Monday, 1-5-09 at 8:25 AM, see you there!
This upcoming week we will review the Todd Hall Expectations at stations and we will begin passing out Todd Tickets again. Â
While writing this week the children will learn about adding details to the stories they are writing and begin revising some of their work. Writing can be frustrating for some students but with practice the more comfortable they become. Keep working on letter sound association at home this will ease anxiety.
Newsletter From Room 208
Submitted by Mrs Trilling on Mon, 2008-12-22 10:24.December 19, 2008
Dear Parents,
        Sorry my Newsletteris late – I know you have been waiting! What an unfortunate day to have a snow day! I will talk with our room mom, and see if we can come up withanother plan. I hope everyone isstaying warm and safe with this icy and snowy weather.   Â
News from Mrs. Govostis' Class
Submitted by Mrs Govostis on Thu, 2008-12-18 13:28.
This has been a week of holidays and families. We learned about Christmas, Ramadan, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa in our classroom. We also had excellent presentations by parents. Thank you to Mrs. Juma, Mr. Chis, and Mrs. Akiva for the presentations of Eid, Romanian Christmas, and Hanukkah, respectively. You took time out of your busy schedules to do this for us and we really appreciate it!
Our favorite book of the week was Owl Moon which taught us much about vocabulary and helped us with our visualizing techniques. Visualizing helps us with our reading and comprehension.
Happy, Happy Holidays!
Submitted by Ms Muno on Thu, 2008-12-18 13:03.December 19, 2008
Dear Loved Ones of Room 403,
I would like to take this opportunity to wish each of you a joyous and warm holiday season. I hope you are all able to surround yourselves with those whom you love. I am eager to celebrate the holidays and I look forward to a brand new year! May you all know that you hold a very special place in my heart! 
Very Sincerely,
Miss Sarah E. Muno
P.S. School will resume on Monday, January 5th, 2009!
Ms. May's Memo
Submitted by Ms May on Sun, 2008-12-14 23:20.We are continuing to learn about families, holidays, and shadows.
In math: we are working on Unit 4 and have been learning about telling time and also timelines. We talked about that a timeline can be recorded by hours, days, months, and years. This is a hard concept for most children and they are not expected to master this. I want them to be exposed to this for next year.
In spelling: we are still practicing sight words and along with knowing how to spell them, we are learning how to put these words in ABC order. We have been practicing consonants and vowels and being able to differentiate between them.
What's Happening in Room 209?
Submitted by Mrs Nelson on Fri, 2008-12-12 16:13.Dear Parents,
In the last two weeks, the children have been so busy with interesting activities and centers. Here are the top ten things they have done:
1.   We have continued to read about families using books such as, Celebrating Families by Rosemarie Hausherr, Let’s Go Home, by Cynthia Rylant, and Do Mommies Have Mommies, by Time Life.
2.   In coordination with our science unit on Lights and Shadows, we are reading about celebrations around the world that include light in some way. One excellent book, Celebrations of Light, by Nancy Luenn is beautifully informative and easy to understand for young children. This will be continued next week when we make our books about celebrations around the world.
3.   In Text Talk we read about Alexander and the Wind-up Mouse by Leo Lionni and we tried to use vocabulary such as adventure, envy, fond, cautiously, precious and transform.
Holly Jolly Blog 2
Submitted by Ms Knowles on Fri, 2008-12-12 16:05.Unfortunately, I was having difficulties with my blog and I am posting last week's and this week's blog today! I apologize for those avid readers.
Science: We experimented with shadows! We spent time exploring with three shadow centers on Friday. The overhead was used to try and create shadows with our hands, we had a shadow box that we used with a flashlight (other students had to guess from a shadow, what an object was), and students had to try and trace their hand shadow using a flashlight and paper/pencil. The kids were loving it!
Math: We have been measuring with rules and learning about temperature and inches. We are taking the temperature readings once in a while only to discover that we are thankful to be indoors!
Newsletter
Submitted by Mrs Trilling on Fri, 2008-12-12 15:31.Dear Parents,   Â
   After I framed the quilt squares, the children enjoyed sharing them with the class. THANK YOU so much for helping!!!!! They look terrific hanging across the room. We discussed how we help and share with the members of our families, and we made a family book. Also, we learned about consonant clusters (blends), and had fun practicing in our centers, along with magic e and ight, and working on our Family Shields. (The Family Shields are hanging on the board right outside our door.) After reading Owl Moon, the children discussed and wrote about several different connections they had to their own lives. During Making Meaning, the children practiced their comprehension skills by retelling the events in the story, Little Nino’s Pizzeria, to their reading partner. Â
