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Hello Parents,

Monday our eggs are supposed to hatch.  I peeked in on them this morning and late morning.  I hear peeping and a few of them are making little holes in the eggs. They have to go all the way around the egg.  Maybe some will be out by tomorrow morning.  Some eggs haven’t started.  I’m hoping that all goes well…I feel like a new mom…still so worried that they won’t come out.

Tuesday, our class will be leading the school in mass.  If your child is reading something, I put it on the front of their binders.  Please practice with them.  I only got them on Thursday, so I had little time to practice.  We will go over to the church to practice on Monday.  I believe everyone has now had a chance to read something. Landon, Tony, George, and Mia will bring up the gifts.  Sign holders will be Danica, Patrick, Charlie, and Jackson.  Connor M will be my backup reader.  There seems to be a bug going around.  Readers are Grey, Mila, Vivian, Enrick, Lennon, Christian, Lorenzo, Allie, Zach, Gabbie, Connon Z, Kevin, Mac, Maddie and Kason.

 Last week we had a great time learning about our wonderful earth, country, State, and town. We created crafts depicting our hands holding the world and Earth hats; learned about ways that WE can help protect it; and enjoyed many learning activities and experiences centered around this theme. We will celebrate Earth Day on Monday by making special hats and picking up trash on the back lawn and around the school.  Yes, we will wear gloves.  We keep our grounds pretty clean, but we always end up finding some things and the children are very excited.  

Thursday will be a dress-in-blue day for autism awareness.  Students may bring in a dollar for a collection for The Buffalo Autism Project.

This week we will continue to celebrate our country.  We learned one patriotic song, ‘God Bless America” and will learn,  “You’re A Grand Old Flag” this week.  Additionally,  we will continue to practice “On the Road Again” for our school concert this Wednesday.

We also have a lot of preparing to do for Mother’s Day.  We are planning to host a “Mother’s Day Tea” for our wonderful Moms (Grandma’s are welcome too) on Friday, May 10th  at 1:00  PM.  We’ll present a gift, sing some songs and enjoy some treats and sweet iced tea with our moms..  This is always such a special night to celebrate the special ladies in our lives.  There is no greater love than that of a mother/grandmother.

In addition to some schoolwide practices for our Spring concert, here are some other things I will focus on this week;

Our popcorn words for this week will be: have, must, and now.  We completed Unit 8 last week, so I will assess them sometime this week on those words.
Math - We have finished our math textbooks so I will continue to practice math skills utilizing learning games and some independent practice work to refine and prepare the children for 1st grade math.
Religion - The Mass - God Is With Us.
Science - Chicks and Eggs - “Ish” and “Let’s Make Music!” as a large group; “We’ll continue to work on our play, “The Little Red Hen. ”We’ll explore multiple meanings of words and problem/solution.  We’ll respond to literature in writing and will work in  small reading and skill groups; 
Social Studies - Our World, Country, State, and town.

Have a wonderful week!

God Bless, Sandy Hamilton