Week of April 29-May 5, 2012

Wow! Can you believe that the month of April is almost over and we only have 4 weeks left of school?!

Thank you to everyone who donated supplies to the Ngobe Bugle Tribe in Panama. We sent down about 49 pounds of school supplies. My dad will send pictures when they take the supplies to the students.

Thanks you to those who brought the labels for the race for education. I took the letters to the post office last Friday. We sent out 360 letters! It's not too late to bring in your labels either. We will send letters out as we get labels in. The 3 year olds will run on Thursday, May 17th, and the 4 year olds will run on Friday, May 18th.

The week of the 7-11th is Lutheran Schools week. We will have fun dress up days the whole week.
Monday - crazy hair/hat day
Tuesday - pajama day
Wednesday - church best dress day
Thursday - sports jersey day (or t-shirt)
Friday - school color day (red/white)

Also the 10th at 6:30 is the spring program. Please bring students to our room by 6:15.

Please remember that the 3 year old class is PEANUT FREE. If your child brings something with peanuts or peanut butter, they will not be allowed to eat it.

Snack time prayer for May:
Our Hands We Fold
Our hands we fold, our heads bow,
For food and drink, we thank you now.
Amen

For this week:
Theme: pets (for show and tell this week, please bring a picture of your pet if you have one.)

Four year olds:
Vowel: I, i
Number: 19
Shape: hexagon

Three year olds:
Letters: J, K, L
Number: 10
Shape: hexagon

Week of April 22-28

What a beautiful weekend! Hope you all got to enjoy some time outside.

Labels for the Race for Education need to be brought in by Tuesday. A group of parents are getting together to stuff the envelopes to go out on Tuesday night. If you would like to help stuff envelopes, come on up to the school at 6pm.

Any school supplies for the Ngobe Bugle Tribe also needs to be brought in by Tuesday. The box is being shipped to California on Tuesday after school.

Lutheran Schools week is coming up May 7-11. Each school day we will have fun dress-up days as well as special activities.
Monday, May 7 - Crazy Hair/Hat day
Tuesday, May 8 - PJs day
Wednesday, May 9 - Church Best Dress day
Thursday, May 10 - Sports Jersey/Uniform day
Friday, May 11 - School Colors day (Our school colors are white/red)

Happy Birthday to AY in the four year old class!

For this week:
Our theme this week is Weather.

For the four year old class:
Vowel of the week: E
Number of the week: 19
Shape of the week: pentagon

For the three year old class:
Letters of the week: G, H, I
Number of the week: 10
Shape of the week: pentagon

Week of April 15-21

Just a few announcements for this week:
- If you would like to participate in the school supply drive for the Ngobe Bugle tribe in Panama, please bring in your donation this week sometime. We have until the 24th to bring in supplies in order to get them to the person taking them down.

- Remember to bring in your address labels for the race for education. They are due on Wednesday.

For this week
Theme of the week: Baby Animals

Four year old class:
Vowel of the week: A
Number of the week: 18
Shape of the week: heart

Three year old class:
Letters of the week: D, E, F
Number of the week: 9
Shape of the week: heart

Week of April 8-14

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter.

Just a reminder that I will not be at school on Thursday or Friday. I am going to a Montana Behavior Initiative (MBI) training in Missoula. Mrs. Montgomery will teach both days.

Our Spring Program is coming up on May 10th. It will be in the evening. We will be singing "The Butterfly Song" as a whole school. The three year old class is singing "1, 2, 3 Little Bumblebees" and "The Ladybug Song." The four year old class is singing "Animal Dance" and "Arky Arky." The words will come home sometime this week so you can be practicing at home.

If you would like to participate in the school supply drive for the Ngobe Bugle people in Panama, please bring the supplies in this week or next week.

Information about the Race for Education will be coming home soon. The students are going to send out pledge forms to raise money for the school. In the end of May they will be running laps for those pledges. There are prizes for the student who raises the most money as well as the class who raises the most money.

Report cards are coming home soon as well. I am finishing them up now.

For this week

Four year old class: We are going to introduce the concept of vowels. Over the weeks to come we will explore the two sounds that each vowel makes. The number of the week is 18. The shape of the week is rectangle. We will start reviewing the sight words that we have learned as well. The theme of the week is Nursery Rhymes.

Three year old class: We are going to start reviewing all the letters we have learned this year. This week we will work on A, B, and C. The number of the week is 9. The shape of the week is rectangle. The theme of the week is Nursery Rhymes.

Week of April 1-7

I hope everyone had a great Spring Break! Are you ready to get back to school? I know I am.

Remember that this is a short week since we do not have school on Good Friday. We also have Monday the 9th off.

We are going to do a very special Easter activity this week and next. If you can, please send in an egg carton (one dozen size only please) as soon as possible. They will get to bring these home when the activity is done. If you have some extra that you can send in as well, please do so. Thank you so much!

I have some more information about the scholarships available for Kindergarten through fifth grade next year. If you would like to send your child to First Lutheran School next year please let me know ASAP if you would like to utilize these funds. There is a deadline that needs to be met and I don't want you to miss out.

I will be in Missoula for the MBI conference next Thursday and Friday (April 12 and 13th). Mrs. Montgomery will sub for me.

April Snack Prayer:

Thank You for the World So SweetThank you for the world so sweet,
Thank you for the food we eat,
Thank you for the birds that sing,
Thank you, God, for everything.

Amen
For this week:
Letter of the week: Z,z (YAY! Our last letter for the year!)
Number of the week: 9, 17
Shape of the week: oval
Sight Word of the week: what
Theme of the week: Flowers (and Easter)