April already – the year is flying by! Soon we’ll be talking about graduation, but more about that next month. (Just so you know, graduations are Monday, June 13, and Tuesday, June 14)
Spring Break is next week, April 18 – 22. School resumes on April 25th.
Class and Individual pictures will be taken in May. Mrs. Bersani and Mrs. Wilkinson’s class, Mrs. Mione and Mrs. Lyons’s Monday, Wednesday, Friday and five day class, as well as Mrs. Zizza and Mrs. Aldrich’s Monday, Wednesday, Friday and five day class will have their pictures taken on Monday, May 2nd. Mrs. Mione and Mrs. Lyons’s Tuesday/Thursday class, Mrs. Zizza and Mrs. Aldrich’s Tuesday/Thursday Mrs. Flaherty and Mrs. Truax’s Pre-K class, and the Kindergarten class will have their pictures taken on Tuesday, May 3rd. Notices and order envelopes will be sent out closer to picture day. You are, of course, under no obligation to purchase pictures. The photographer suggests that solid colors and small prints photograph well. Large geometric prints, large logos and extremely bright prints should be avoided.
The fundraising committee has been hard at work planning our “Spring for our School” fundraiser to be held at the Milton Woman’s Club on May 6th. You should have received an invitation in the mail by now. Please let me know if you didn’t. Everyone is welcome so please extend an invitation to your friends as well
We’re still in need of items for our silent auction. If you have any unused (still in the wrapping) new toys or gifts that are collecting dust or valuable closet space please consider donating them to the auction. Also, as mentioned in the past, a unique experience or service is always a popular item. And of course Sporting Events are hot ticket items that are always welcome. All donations are gratefully accepted!
We also need wine for the “wine grab.”
Raffle tickets have been put in everyone’s cubby. We appreciate your efforts in selling them. Please return any unsold tickets as soon as possible so they can be given to someone else. There are more tickets available in the office if you need them.
Fun in Mrs. Mione’s and Mrs. Lyon’s Class
Who would believe March would go by so quickly? Who would believe the leprechaun would elude us once again?
In March we read books about Ireland and made rainbows, leprechauns, and shamrocks galore. We also made our own Irish soda bread from “scratch.”
Spring (at least by the calendar) finally arrived and we celebrated with stories and projects.
The last week of March found us reading Eric Carle books and painting, coloring, gluing and collaging projects to illustrate the stories.
What’s Happening in Mrs. Bersani’s and Mrs. Wilkinson’s Class
March was a very busy month in our classroom. Jane Withington, a dental hygienist, came to discuss dental health. The children were fascinated by her puppet and jumped at the chance to answer questions about brushing their teeth and going to the dentist They each got a chance to show proper brushing technique on Jane’s puppet as well as getting “brushed and flossed” themselves! Her visit ended with a great book and goodies to take home.
Then it was time to prepare for the annual Leprechaun visit. We worked hard to build a trap to hopefully catch him but once again the Leprechaun was too tricky for us! He did leave a note and special gold coins for all of the children though before he escaped through a window.
Our Alphabet unit is in full swing. The children are enjoying coming up with real and silly words that begin with the letter of the day. Our songs, stories, and art projects are all coordinated to go with the letter we are working on. Our friend Gabrielle’s birthday was good enough to fall on “G” day this year!
We are also doing a lot of Spring projects in class but trying to convince Mother Nature to follow suit has not been easy. So far hats and mittens are still needed on most days but hopefully this will change soon.
March News from Mrs. Zizza’s and Mrs. Aldrich’s Class
We started the first day of March making our lions which was so much fun. Declan, Ronan, Ila, Mar and Nickolas enjoyed the poem about March coming in like a lion. We also closed up the office.
That same week we celebrated a very special Dr. Seuss birthday. We enjoyed picking out our favorite books. The Cat in the Hat and The Grinch that Stole Christmas were voted our favorites. The green eggs and ham we had for our special snack that day was a hit with Chloe, Teddy, Jack and Hilda.
For Mardi Gras we had a special snack of pancakes and we thought we looked a bit silly wearing the court jester hats that we made.
For “R” week we made recycled robots. It was amazing the super powers that our robots had! We then drew pictures of our robots for our memory book. We also made a rainbow for our classroom with a pot of gold at the end. We had a special leprechaun who was under our rainbow. We named him “Transformer.” Transformer kept a tally of our special gold coins w earned by doing extra special deeds in our classroom. Alexandra, Kate, Luke and Lily all loved counting their good deed coins. We also used marbles that week for rolling paint onto our shamrocks to put around our rainbow. We had a special visitor, Mrs. Feloney, helping out that day.
“Z” week zipped on in next. We enjoyed St. Patrick’s Day in our class. We all wore our green and everyone was Irish for the day. To build a trap for the leprechaun was so much fun but, did we catch him?? We were close this year, but he did leave us some special treats. Teddy did a great job in finding the special treats he left us. We made potato people into leprechauns and had special rainbow cupcakes made by Mrs. Zizza. We made our own special zebras with stripes and all. We even have our own special “Z” people – Zain and Mrs. Zizza!
We finished up the last day of March making lambs and hoping to see signs of spring.
A special Happy 5th Birthday to Jack was celebrated in our class.
Kindergarten News – Mrs. Sweeney’s and Mrs. Keady’s Class
During March, the Kindergarten Team studied the human body. We began by making life-size cutouts of ourselves which looked just like us! We learned about the five senses, the brain, heart and lungs. After learning about the skeletal system, we made models of a bone. We loved learning about the blood! We not only made our own “blood” but we BECAME the blood and “lub-dubbed” our way through the veins and arteries as red and white blood cells, oxygen, carbon dioxide, food and waste! We also found the digestive system very interesting – especially making our own chyme (stomach contents) and mucous! What could be more fun? Turning our classroom into Campbell General Hospital!
We demonstrated what we had learned about our body systems while acting as doctors, nurses and patients. We also took turns in the X-ray and blood labs and at the front desk checking in patients. Everyone loved working at Campbell General!
Our artist of the month was Edgar Degas. We used what we learned about muscles and joints to make our ballerinas dance across the paper! We are so proud to see them exhibited in the hallway.
Dr. Seuss Day, St. Patrick’s Day and the 100th day of school – so many things to celebrate! It was another fun and busy month in the kindergarten!
News from Mrs. Flaherty’s and Mrs. Truax’s Class
- I Had Trouble In Getting to Solla Sollew by Dr. Seuss
- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
- The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
- There’s No Place Like Space by Tish Rabe (Aidan’s book)
- The Sneetches and other Stories / The Zax by Dr. Seuss
- What Was I Afraid of? And Too Many Daves by Dr. Seuss
- One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
- The Greentail Mouse by Leo Lionni
- Leprechaun on the Loose by Marcia Thornton Jones
- A Fine St Patrick’s Day by Susan Wojciechowski
- St Patrick’s Day in the Morning by Eve Bunting
- Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen
- Fiona’s Luck by Teresa Bateman
- Leprechaun Gold by Teresa Bateman
- What Instrument Is This by Rosemarie Hausherr
- The Lamb and the Butterfly by Eric Carle
- The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
- Anansi Does the Impossible! : An Ashanti Tale by Verna Aardema
- The Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown
- The Marshmallow Incident by Judi Barrett
- The Real Tooth Fairy by Marilyn Kaye
- Charlie Cook’s Favorite Book by Julia Donaldson
- Rotten Richie and the Ultimate Dare by Patricia Polacco
- Read It Don’t Eat It by Ian Schoenherr
- Everybody Cooks Rice by Norah Dooley
- The Cross-With-Us Rhinoceros by John Bush
- Mud Flat April Fool by James Stevenson
Chocolate Moose for Dinner by Fred Gwynne
We met letter S. The children decorated Seuss S for reading & literature to develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print, and letterforms. They formed and painted dough letters, completed a beading activity (1red, 1white, 2red, 1white, 3red, 1white…5red) and played The Foot Book movement game. For snack, we made and ate green eggs and ham to celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday. When the eggs and ham were cleaned from our plates we surveyed: did you try green eggs and ham? Did you like green eggs and ham? We did! We decorated Sneetches finger puppets, completed a rhyming page (star, red, cat, Sneetches, green) and wrote “Seuss” for their Wordbook. We illustrated What Was I Afraid of? and marble painted hot air balloons. We counted and illustrated One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. Thanks Owen for sharing the Dr. Seuss bookmarks we decorated. We celebrated Mardi Gras by lacing Mardi Gras beads and eating pancakes.
We met letter L. The children assembled lilac ladder L on lovely lavender paper for reading & literature to develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print, and letterforms. To prepare for St. Patrick’s Day, Irish castles were painted, St Patrick’s snakes were cut, foam leprechaun heads were decorated, and leprechaun traps were voted on, and constructed. We beaded (green-white-orange) the Irish flag pattern and wrote “luck” for their Wordbook. We celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with our leprechaun hunt and made and ate Irish bread and surveyed which Irish bread we liked best.
We met letter I. The children made incredible I for reading & literature to develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print, and letterforms. The children illustrated something incredible they could do, and decorated Ironing beads. To celebrate the first day of spring, we germinated corn/carrot seeds in a baggie. We illustrated the Little Island and described something we learned. The children wrote “ice cream” for their Wordbook. We ate marshmallows as we listened to The Marshmallow Incident. The dental hygienist visited and we decorated and painted pink lambs.
We met letter R. The children decorated Rock and roll red R for reading & literature to develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print, and letterforms. We cooked and ate rice and compared which type we liked best (risi-e-bisi, fried, plain). The children worked hard on rhyming this month. They chose two words that rhymed and illustrated them. The children wrote “rice” for their Wordbook. And finished the week with April Fools’ fun.
We enjoyed Music with Mrs. Stoyle and Movement with Mrs. Wilkinson.
We celebrated Owen’s birthday this month.