My favorite thing about teaching kindergarten and first grade is getting to witness the Spring jump that happens in reading. Our class must be taking cues from Mother Nature in the NW, because we started jumping in winter! They are readers who can’t be stopped!! The 1st week of Feb. we read 147 books, the 2nd week 343, and this week (a three day week) we read a combined 442!!! We finished our 1st chapter book together, and have moved on to reading our first mystery chapter book and they are loving it!!
As a kick-off for the African Animals PBL, Kindergarteners will be visiting the Woodland Park Zoo on Thursday, March 5th. Permission slips will be going home Monday. Please return them ASAP. We will be taking a bus to the zoo (paid for by our amazing PTSA). Zoo admission is $6.50 per child unless you have a zoo membership. Please include a check for $6.50 (written to the QAE PSTA) or a copy of your zoo membership card along with your signed permission slip. Please email me if you are willing and able to chaperone this trip.
First graders begin their Bird PBL in mid-March. We have two field trips on the calendar for them:
Discovery Park on Friday, March 27th 9:30 to 2:00 pm
Magnuson Park on Tuesday, April 28th 9:30 to 2:00 pm.
We need parent drivers for these trips: If you can drive to one of these trips (first graders only) please email me and let me know how many children you can transport and how many car seats/boosters you have in your car. Full disclosure: I am a car seat safety fanatic so I like to check to see if things are installed correctly before our departure. If you are a driver you will need to give Mrs. Kirch a copy of your driver’s license and insurance card (ideally not the day of the field trip).
I am really looking forward to a long stretch of uninterrupted weeks of school. We have so many fun things planned for the students in room 106!!
Best,
Shauna
Upcoming Dates:
First graders begin their Bird PBL in mid-March. We have two field trips on the calendar for them:
Discovery Park on Friday, March 27th 9:30 to 2:00 pm
Magnuson Park on Tuesday, April 28th 9:30 to 2:00 pm.
We need parent drivers for these trips: If you can drive to one of these trips (first graders only) please email me and let me know how many children you can transport and how many car seats/boosters you have in your car. Full disclosure: I am a car seat safety fanatic so I like to check to see if things are installed correctly before our departure. If you are a driver you will need to give Mrs. Kirch a copy of your driver’s license and insurance card (ideally not the day of the field trip).
I am really looking forward to a long stretch of uninterrupted weeks of school. We have so many fun things planned for the students in room 106!!
Best,
Shauna
Upcoming Dates:
- Thursday, March 5th-Kindergarten Field Trip to the Zoo
- Thursday, March 5th- Illustrator Carson Ellis visits QAE (first graders only)
- Friday, March 6th- School Choice Forms Due (if you have an incoming child you must submit this paperwork, siblings are not automatically enrolled in QAE)
- Friday, March 20th- QAE Benefit Auction. Buy tickets here: https://qae.schoolauction.net/auction2015/tickets/ticket_sales
- Friday March, 27th- First Grade Field Trip to Discovery Park
- April 1st- ParentNet meeting for all K-2 parents (6:30-8:30 PM at QAEl)
- April 13- 17th- Spring Break
- Tuesday, April 28th- First Grade Field Trip to Magnuson Park