Newsletter ~ February 7

Greetings Rascal Families!

Rich’s Rascals 100^th Day Anniversary is THREE days away….Tuesday, February 12 (barring any snow days)!  100 day projects are due.  This day will go down in history!  Tune in and listen to all the details about the drapery treatment that will decorate our classroom door?  The design is very meaningful to us….digits, 1-0-0   in oversized, bold font!!!  Teachers, students and volunteers will enjoy stepping through the cut-out zeros as they enter our classroom Tuesday.  Each one of us will rename ourselves, “Zero the Hero”! 

Our Valentine Friendship Day is going to happen on Thursday.  Kindergartners are ready to spread the friendship.  Many kinders have finished their Valentine mailboxes.  Names need to be on each mailbox.  At home, they’ve been working on their Valentine cards for weeks and can’t wait to give them to their kinder friends.  Send “V”-Day cards and mailboxes to school on Thursday.  Remember to dress in red..

HOMEWORK will be assigned this weekend.  Rich’s Rascals are to complete addressing their Valentine cards and mailboxes.  This is an assignment all will do, cross our Hearts!!!

Have you heard about the work we’ve been doing during Math Workshop?  We’ve been focusing on skip counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s;  with a special emphasis on 10 to 100!

You’re going to love the way we wrote our numbers from 10 to 100 on our 100^th Day vests!  Stamping was fun, fun, FUN!  Ask us how many stamps in each section...

Spread the news!  We have surpassed our goal of collecting 100 edibles!   A total of 150 items is the current count....YAHOO!!!!  Thank you 100 times for your generous donations! 

It's no surprise that numbers with zero in them are our favorites!!!  The zero connection elicits a lot of talk about our 100^th day of school.  Zero chatting goes on and on…  Yes, if you think Ben Franklin made his mark in history, look closely at the 100 hundred dollar bill we will be sending home on 100^th Day.  Do you recognize the famous Kindergartner?

Next week, we will complete Unit 6, “My Shadow”, in the Imagine It reading series.   Reviewing the letters/sounds:  Jj, Ff, Xx, Zz and Uu are in the plans.  Add the new sight word all to your list of words to read.  Practice your sight words and read your decodables every night. 

Read your “hearts” out, Rascals !!!!!

                                                     Celebrate 100 Days of School!!!

                                                                        June A. Rich