Dear parents,

It was great getting to meet you all for the parent-teacher conferences! I hope we can continue to build the foundation of your child's life education together. The Kangaroos are a really great class and I continue to enjoy my time substituting for Teacher Angel during her maternity leave.

This week for phonics, we reviewed the letter J-j and learned the letters K-k (kitten, key, king, kite, ketchup) and L-l (lamp, lion, leaf, lamb, lemon), along with the following series of rhymes:

For J-j:
*Boil some jelly crystals and wait for it to set,
*Stew some strawberries and what will you get?
*Squeeze some oranges into a nice tall glass,
*You'll have jelly, juice and jam in nice big jars.
*What are the J words in this rhyme?
*Jelly, juice, jam, jars.

For K-k:
*There once was a king,
*Who knew Karate and Kung Fu,
*He loved to have a friendly fight with a kicking kangaroo.
*Kick and box and punch
*Ouch, and yikes, and scrunch!

For L-l:
*Lovely lollipops on a stick,
*Lovely to look at,
*Lovely to lick.



For social studies, we continued with our "Food" unit and talked about whether we liked to eat popcorn, cookies, muffins, popsicles, and jello. Everyone liked popsicles, popcorn, cookies, and jello, but few students actually liked muffins.

For math, we continued working on seasons and discussed what clothing to wear in rainy spring weather.


For motor skills class, we sewed thread through bears, which helps students develop their hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills.


For arts and crafts, we colored and cut out pictures of foods we learned in social studies class to make a book.