Looking Ahead: The Sprint into Spring!

April 7-National Volunteer Recognition Week

Thursday, April 10  877 Endowment Pork Chop Dinner BCMS 4-7 p.m.(tickets $10.00 adults, $5.00 children-on sale DES office)

Monday, April 14  6:30-7:30 Parent Mtg. with Dr. Nelson/Commons A

Monday, April 14 Wright Hennipen Electric-Free seedling delivery

Wednesday, April 16th Town Square Readers

Thursday, April 24 Town Gathering CREATIVE*gym 2:50

Spring Scholastic Book Fair-May

Thursday, May 8 K-2 Field Trip Minnesota Zoo Apple Valley - Permission Slip Coming Home Tomorrow, April 1st!!

Random Sharing

Random things I did not get around to sharing....

Fifth grade leaders.   Seems like just yesterday they were my Kindies!

Enrichments:  Raising money by reading books

Lots of ways to show writing!  I found this on the white board after the children left.

It was written by Waylon.

Penguin Cupcakes

Peighton brought in Penguin Cupcakes.

A student brought this to me during Family Fun Night week.  They wanted to make a direct contribution to the school field trip funds.  Thank you Maren!

C = COURAGE

This Thursday, March 20, students were awarded the C award for Courage.

Our class celebrated the end of Peace Week as well.  All of us were working on the skills it takes to have courage and do the thing that will promote peace and 'bucket filling.'

Lauren was awarded the Courage Award.

Peighton was chosen as Lead Encourager for our Classroom.

Centers

From 3/13/14

Story Writing

Matching sight words with their pictures.

Race to 100 counting game.

Building with magnets.

Reading

Why We Play in K!!!

Play in Kindergarten

Tuesday's Centers

Making addition stories and writing equations.

Writing Caring Cards

Play dough

Peace Week Posters

Heart Word Bingo!

Penguin Basket

Thank you to all the families who helped put together our Penguin Pal Basket!  One of our kindergarten families bid and won!  AND they are planning to use the adorable penguin cupcake decorating kit to bring in treats for our class.  What fun!

Thank you again to all of you for contributing to our Family Fun Night!

Cabin Fever

One of the many challenges this winter has brought us is a bad case of Classroom Cabin Fever!  We are tackling this problem by renewing our commitment to "fill" each other's buckets (encourage) instead of "dipping" from each other's buckets (discourage).

Here are some amazing examples I have noticed recently:

Working together to build a house.

Inviting others to your penguin party!

Joining together to enjoy playing 'house'

Next week we are going to have "Peace Week" in hopes of practicing our courage (and reducing our tattling)!

Enrichments!

Thursday, March 20, is Enrichment time at Discovery!  Staff and community members lead a variety of different classes and activities.  All activities have a service learning or community learning focus.

A PINK sheet will come home TODAY.  Students will use that sheet to select their first, second, and third choices for activities.

Please return the sheet no later than March 14th!!!!

Parent help is always needed, so please consider coming to help that morning.  A background check must be completed and on file, but there is still time to complete one.  (Call Sharon in the office for more info.  682-8400)

Sharing

The students have fallen into a routine of sharing that is different than in years past.  They are mostly interested in reading their homework books, not their written stories.  (Of course they can still do that if they would like.)

So, each child will have one day a week when they get to read a book (or writing) to the class.  The schedule will be the same each week.  IF we have a vacation day or (Please NO) another snow day, we will squeeze them in on another day that week.

Mondays:

Henry B
Maren
Finn
Henry G

Tuesdays:
Kris
Waylon
Teagan
Garett

Wednesdays:
Karson
Jackson
Myia
Peighton

Thursdays:
Kalah
Mitch
Kenzie
Lauren

Fridays:
Gabriel
Preston
Thor
Miranda

CHEERFUL Award!

This month's (February) 5C was Cheerful.  We encourage Discovery students to be cheerful about their friends and learning and thankful for all the blessings we have here at Discovery!

The recipient of this months 5C Award was Karson Kramber.  He sets a good example of how to overcome disappointments and keep a positive spin on friendships and events in the classroom!
(Karson is in the Pikachu outfit!)