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Springtime

4/24/2011

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I hope everyone had a fun and restful spring break.  It is hard to believe that we are heading into the home stretch of our school year but we really only have nine weeks of school until summer vacation.  It is very important that we make the most of these last weeks so please have your child at school on time every day and make every attempt to schedule appointments for after school.  I will be assessing the children towards the end of May.  On May 20th  we will be taking a field trip to the Getty Villa thanks to Rainer Mack, a parent in Mr. Harrell's class

In May we will begin our study of the ocean and sea life in conjunction with our "We Give Back" project about our Topanga Watershed and the Santa Monica aquarium/Heal the Bay, which will kick-off on June 4th, culminating with our field trip on June 14th.  We will be studying different ocean creatures for 6 weeks:

Porifera (pore animals)
Arthropods (jointed leg animals)
Echinoderms (spiny-skinned animals)
Mollusks (soft bodied animals)
Cnidarians (stinging celled animals)
Chordates (vertebrates) 

We will be creating a mural and many artistic representations of the sea life.  I would like to offer easel painting for the children a couple of times a week and hope to incorporate it during reading rotations.  I need a couple of parents to clean up the easels, prepare paints and brushes and smocks so that we can easily set it up in the mornings.  Please let me know a.s.a.p. if you can do this.  You can do it at your convenience, anytime during the day.  I also need parents to prepare the craft activities by cutting out small pieces.  This is a perfect activity for parents who are unable to help in the classroom because you can take it home and bring it back to school.  Let me know if you can help out with this activity. 

To follow along with our garden activities & healthy eating (limited sugar, lots of fruits, veggies, protein, etc), I am encouraging the children to have a healthy lunch each day.  To help with that, I am adding a page to this blog with a "Healthy Lunch Check Sheet."  If a child completes the check sheet, he/she will earn stickers for a Healthy Eater chart.  I will include the check sheet with the homework each week, additionally, you can print the charts at home.  Please turn them in with Friday homework.  Encourage your child to make his/her own lunch the night before, or look at the school cafeteria menu and plan what they will eat ahead of time.

If you are looking for fun summer activities, the Pierce College Kids on Campus program has lots of fun options.  You can check it out at http://extension.piercecollege.edu.




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What We Learn in Kindergarten

4/7/2011

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Robert Fulghum       

"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."

You may have read the poem  "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" but it is always good to remember.  Navigating the world is a challenge at best, and being there for each other is critical.  Hold hands.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I 
learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school 
mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things 
I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing 
and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and 
stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The 
roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but 
we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the 
Styrofoam cup--they all die. So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you 
learned--the biggest word of all--LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love 
and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult 
terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or 
your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world 
it would be if we all--the whole world--had cookies and milk about three 
o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or 
if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where 
they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are-- when you go out into the 
world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

--Robert Fulghum


For those challenging times, please check out this wonderful site and sign up for their newsletter:  Love and Logic @ www.loveandlogic.com

We will be finishing up our letters Mm and Nn before Spring Break and Topic 5, comparing numbers in our math curriculum.  We are having our Spring Party next Thursday from 12:30-1:30, so join Ann and  Heather in the fun.

Thank you for your continued support of our Homework Backpack program, our Monthly Reading Logs, our weekly homework and of course the 3 Bs:  Be Safe, Be Respectful and Be Responsible!
Have a great week before Spring Break!


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