Dear Families, 6/2/17
Our class’s End of Year Celebration will be nextFriday, June 9th, from 2:00- 3:00 p.m. We’ll be inour classroom, where we’ll watch a slide show and snack on some goodies. We also have a simple song that we’ll sing, and then, if there’s time we can enjoy some outside time onthe playground!
If you plan to bring a snack to the End of the Year Celebration, please let me know so that I canmake a list ahead of time to ensure that we don’t have repeats of the same items. So far we have juice and cups. I will bring some pretzels and ice pops,too.
I will also send a large portion of your child’s work home with him or her after our class party next Friday, and will continue to send work home in folders until the end of the school year. I cannot believe how quickly this year has gone by. It’s been a very special year. Our class has become such a tight-knit community! I will miss everyone next year, but am excited and confident about each child’s readiness to take on second grade!
Library and Coding classes will end next Wednesday, June 7th. There will be no more open library after this date. If you have out-standing library books to return, please be sure to have your child return them as soon as possible.
We will also attend an Author’s Day assembly next Thursday, June 8th. Jacky Davis and David Soman, the author and illustrator of Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy books, will be joining us at Duzine to celebrate and share their work.
All items remaining in the Lost and Found will be donated at the end of the school year. Please encourage your child to check the school’s Lost and Found for any missing items before the end of the school year.
Next week, we will assemble our whole class Animal Island. We are looking for any of the following:
-Paper towel rolls
-Toilet paper rolls
-Aluminum foil
-Acorns
-Cotton balls
-Pipe cleaners
-Earth-colored fabric scraps
If you have any of these items around the house that you can donate, please send them in with your child and we will incorporate them into our Animal Island.
This week, we finished our personal animal projects and presented them to classmates. Next week, we will make maps and brochures of our own Animal Islands as we work together on one whole class Animal Island. This work facilitates conversations that build on our ever-growing knowledge base of animal behavior, survival techniques, adaptation, and habitats. The children learn through creating and playing on the island. The children have completed their own clay animal, which they will use to play on the island, and take home at the end of the school year.
Thank you so much for all you have done to contribute to our classroom. As the year comes to an end, I am feeling very grateful for this class, and for all of you, for making this year so great. I look forward to celebrating with anyone who can make it next Friday!
Enjoy the weekend!
Ms. B.