Monday Update

Today students learned about the artist, Claude Monet, and his impressionist style of painting.  We looked at his Japanese Bridge paintings and noticed how he used different colors depending on the season.

Today your child is bringing home some information about a fun reading program we are starting.

The weather is getting nicer and the school year is winding up…so we felt this was a great time to do something fun to encourage our fabulous 1^st grade readers to keep reading this spring!!! It is baseball season, so we thought it’d be fun to have a little baseball themed reading competition!

For the next month we will be ‘competing’ against teams from Miss Agnew's class to see who can read the most minutes! Our competition will be 4 weeks (or innings) long. At the end of each week, we will count up the runs, add those to our ‘scoreboard’ and then the teams will be matched up with a new opponent. The weeks will be Monday-Monday, so on the 30^th, 4^th, 7^th and 21^st points will be tallied & a new inning will begin! You will keep track of your 1^st grader’s reading on score cards, that can be turned in anytime. 30 minutes of reading AT HOME will count for 1 run (point). The kids can count minutes read alone, or with a parent. To ensure fairness, we are asking that parents monitor the reading and sign the scorecards before the kids turn them in. There will be a reading celebration at the end for all students who earn at least 15 points for their team. We will be enforcing good sportsmanship and positivity throughout the process!

 Play Ball!