Ellie's Weekly Newsletter. 6 April. 2014

We will begin this week with more changes!  Before spring break we said good-bye to Mrs. Dorsey.  Now we will say hello to Ms. Johnson as she returns each morning (8:30-9:30) to kindergarten to help teach SLANT reading ( as Mrs. Dorsey had in her absence).  Mrs. Hammer will remain our morning aide, but will not be working with us in the afternoons; Ms. Johnson will be back each afternoon.

We march on with /s/ this week as we open our store!  I did not even send the note to save empty food, cosmetic, soap containers, but did talk to the little ones about the grand opening, and we already have 8 full grocery bags of containers!  Good work, little ones, about spreading the news!  So, continue saving emptied containers to help stock our shelves.  The store will be open for the next two weeks (three weeks if interest continues).

As part of the store study, we will work with stocking, sorting items; pricing, shopping (yes, I do print our own money!); learn how to write checks and find out a bit how credit cards work (at least we will all have one!).

Senses study will also fill our week, a signs of spring walk, plus further study of syllables and compound words.

We should keep busy!