The next two weeks before vacation will be very busy ones in room 20. We have our Chinese New Year Celebration on Friday, our Valentine’s Day Party on 2/12, and the 100th day of school.
Chinese New Year Celebration February 5th @ 12:40PM
Gong Xi Fa Cai -Happy New Year!
Our Chinese New Year in room 20 is proving to be an occasion. We will prepare for our celebration during the week by reading several books about China and Chinese New Year, making several crafts to decorate our room for the occasion, and learning how to make a few Chinese characters. Mrs. Geng will be making lunch on Friday for the entire class (see menu below) and then we will have our own New Year’s parade around the school underneath a dragon the kids will make. Please let me know if you plan to join us for lunch as Mrs. Geng wants to be sure there is enough food. The parade will begin @ 2:00ish so you are welcome to come join us at that time too.
Menu
Spring rolls
White rice with sausage, eggs, and peas
Tofu salad
Cookies
Valentine’s Day Party/Make Your Own Sundae
Our Valentine’s Day party will be on Friday, February 12th @ 2:00PM. Our room parents Mrs. Michael and Mrs. Winter will be contacting you for donations of ice cream and the fixings for the party. Each child will need to bring in a homemade Valentine box (a tissue box or shoe box wrapped in tissue paper and decorated with stickers or heart cutouts works well) and a Valentine’s Day card for each child in the class. Attached please find a class list so your child can put his/her classmate’s names on the cards. I suggest you do a few cards a night for the next couple weeks so the task doesn’t seem overwhelming to your child. Please send in the box and cards on Friday, February 12th.
Help For Haiti
We kicked off our Haiti fundraising at Final Touch on Monday. Our class made Haitian flags and sang a song about helping others at Final Touch. They did a really great job considering we had only 12 students in school and they had only learned the song that morning. Thank you to all who bought sno-cones on Wednesday. We collected $273 in sno-cone sales! This coming Wednesday, February 10th, we will have a cookie sale at lunch. The staff will be making the cookies to sell.The cookies will be 2/$1. If we have leftovers, they will be sold at the PTO meeting that evening.
100 Acts of Kindness
Please be sure to encourage your child to perform acts of kindness this weekend. When your child has completed the act send the red square back to school along with your $1.00 donation. You can help your child write the kind act on the square along with his/her name. All the squares will become part of a giant Haitian flag in the hallway.
Assessments
We have been assessing student’s progress over the last couple weeks and will continue with some more individual assessments in the coming week. I will send home information on how your child is doing using reading strategies, retaining sight words, blending cvc words (both when reading and writing). For students who are ready I will also do a running record with your child that will assess your child’s reading level. All this information will go home to you as soon as it is compiled.
Snowmen with our Buddies
On Tuesday afternoon we will make sock snowmen with our 4th grade buddies. The only supplies we still need are adult size white tube socks. If a few parents could send in a couple socks on Monday 2/1, that would be very helpful.Thank you to Mrs. Winter and Mrs. Hannum for cutting out the cardboard circles and material.
Snack: Victoria’s family will be providing snack for this coming week. Thanks to Sadie’s family for all the goodies last week. After next week we will start the alphabet over again so Anna’s family will be next during the week of 2/8
Dates/Reminders
2/3 Cookie sale at lunch to benefit Haiti: Bring your $1.00
2/5 Chinese New Year Celebration
Lunch @ 12:40
Parade @ 2:00
2/12 Valentine’s Day Party @ 2:00PM
Make your Own Sundaes
Mrs. Peterson's Kindergarten Class Bell Top School - East Greenbush CSD, New York lyte-petersonme@egcsd.org
