Newsletter 5/16

Dear Fish Families:

The Stratham Teachers' Association would like to invite all of our amazing parent volunteers to an appreciation morning meeting on Thursday, May 22. Light refreshments will be served beginning at 8:10 in the library. At 8:45 there will be a whole school morning meeting in the gym where each grade level will sing a song or recite a poem thanking you for all you do. Hope you can make it!

Here is a glimpse of our week and the busy weeks to come:

Readers' Workshop: The children are building lots of theories about Eric Carle as an author and illustrator. We are filling out and using a synthesis chart as week read his many books. We continue to read independently and in partnerships.  

Writers' Workshop:  The children have been busy writing "All About" books these past 2 weeks. Next week they will be picking an animal or insect to write about for their published "All About" book. These books will include roughly 4 facts about the animal/insect. 

Math: We have been composing and decomposing numbers this week. The children practiced taking a larger number and adding on. We also played some adding and subtracting games.  

Visual Arts:  We have been exploring painting techniques inspired by Eric Carle. We made grouchy ladybugs and wrote speech bubbles about what makes us grouchy.

Song of the Week:  Head to Toe Dance by Literacy in Motion

Book of the Week:  From Head to Toe  by Eric Carle

Donation Requests:

• Band aids for our dramatic play hospital

Up-Coming Events:

• Music Hall Field Trip- 5/21
• Volunteer Appreciation Morning Meeting- 5/22 
• No School- 5/26 Memorial Day
• Kindergarten Field Day- 5/23 *We welcome parent help on field day. Let me know if you are interested in helping out!
• Grandparent Luncheon-Monday, 6/2
• Last Day of K- 6/11 at 9:30. This date is earlier than the rest of SMS to allow time to screen in-coming kindergarten students. Please save the date because you are invited in for a celebration at 9:30 a.m. Dismissal will be by 11:00. If this is a problem for your family, please let me know!

Fondly,

Kristen