Hello Parents,

Summer is here for the the kids.  We have had a fun and productive year.  Thank you for all of the support this year in our classrooms and for your children. 

REMINDERS:  Summer school starts for most students on Monday, June 18.  If you have any questions or concerns about summer school you can contact the teacher Ms. Cheryl Airgood at airgooc@dearborn.k12.mi.us.

You should be receiving a letter that is being sent home today concerning the placement of teachers for the 2012-2013 school year.  I believe I will be sending home the letter today and you will receive the letter in the mail as well.

I hope that you all have a nice relaxing summer.  If you need anything during the summer please contact me or Ms. Airgood.  We are happy to support you.

Thank you all for a wonderful school year.

Christine Carter                                                                           Cheryl Airgood

carterc@dearborn.k212.mi.us                                             airgooc@dearborn.k12.mi.us

Dear Parents:

Please read this letter from our special education director, Mr. Michael Shelton, and our HI coordinator, Mr. Clayton Burch.  It is about visiting the new school that our program will be moving to.  I wanted you to get this information tonight to give you ample time to make plans with your child to visit.

Nowlin

Dear Parents,

If your child attended school here at WB for most of the school year you can have your child attend early summer school that starts on June 18.  You should have received a registration form in the mail from the special education office.  It is printed on two green sheets.  If you wish your child to attend summer school, please fill out the form by June 8 and return it to school in your child’s folder.  I will send the form on to the special education office.

If you have questions or concerns, please let me know.

Christine Carter

Dear parents,

This week is SPIRIT WEEK.  Your child can participate by doing the following:

Monday:  Hat Day: wear a hat to school

Tuesday:  Pajama Day or Sports Team Shirts:  wear pajamas or a sports team shirt to school

Wednesday:  Mismatch Day  (wear mixed up clothes to school)

Thursday:  Whitmore Wear Day (wear your Whitmore-Bolles shirt)

Friday:  American Pride Day (wear your red, white and blue)

THURSDAY is Field Day:  Your child will participate in games in the afternoon from 2:00 to 3:30.  Your child will race, throw a ball,  jump, etc.  Please make sure your child is wearing shorts, t-shirt, tennis shoes and socks.  You can provide sun screen and water too if it’s going to be a hot day.

Monday, June 11:  We will be walking over to Alex Kelly’s house.  Alex is a fifth grade deaf student that is hosting our end of year picnic on Monday.  His family will provide games and fun at his house in honor of his graduation from elementary school to middle school.  Please sign the permission slip for your child to attend the picnic.

Progress reports will be sent home next week Tuesday or Wednesday.

Have a nice week.

Christine

REMINDER THAT THIS MONDAY, JUNE 4 IS HAT DAY.  Wear a hat on Monday as part of spirit week next week.

May 24, 2012

Hello Parents,

REMINDER:  NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY, MAY 25 and MONDAY, MAY 28 for Memorial Day weekend.

We have had a fun week with “live science” happening in our classroom and on the playground.  Our caterpillars did become butterflies in our classroom last week and this week.  We also saw mother duck have seven duckings on the preschool playground.  It’s been exciting to see the animal life cycle in action.

We opened up the sandbox today.  Now the kids will have an added play activity on the playground.  The sandbox is a great exploration tool for our students in preschool an K.

We continue our daily routine with exploring letters, colors, numbers, children’s names, labeling objects in the classroom and throughout the school.

We went to the book fair this week and each student got two books of their choice.

Stories this week:

Caps for Sale, Butterfly, Ocean, Swimmy, Bunny My Honey

Have a good weekend.

Christine Carter

Dear Parents,

 This Monday the entire student body of Whitmore-Bolles is planting flowers around our school.  Parents are asked to donate a flat of flowers to help out for planting day.  If you would like to donate a flat of flowers, please send them to school on Monday with your child.  You can donate Marigolds, Petunias or Daisies.  Thank you for your support!

 HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

Ms. Carter and Ms. Airgood’s class wish you the happiest Mother’s Day.  We hope you have a wonderful day on Sunday with your family.

 Teacher Appreciation Week

Thank you to all the parents of Ms. Carter and Ms. Airgood’s class.  You all made this week a special week for all the adults in our classroom. Thank you for your kind words and lovely gifts throughout the week.

 Ms. Carter, Ms. Airgood and Ms. Lisa

Hello Parents,

REMINDER:  SPRING DANCE IS TONIGHT AT 6:30.  Please feel free to bring your family to this fun event tonight!

Science:  We are watching our caterpillars grow and become pupas by next week.  We can’t wait to see our butterflies.  We worked on two book this week to compare and contrast content in these books:  The Hungry Caterpillar and Charlie the Caterpillar. 

Other reads this week (spring time story books): My Spring Robin, In the Pond, Jump, Frog, Jump, You Job is Easy, My Job is Hard; Hamilton Duck’s Springtime Story; Boy with a Drum

We also talked about pond life, farm life and animals in the forest.  We learned about different animals in these different habitats.

CINCO DE MAYO:  On Monday, May 7 we are celebrating Cinco de Mayo (the fifth of May).  We will learn about where Mexico is, the flag of Mexico and Joshua Gonzalez’s mother will be bringing in authentic Mexican food to share with all of our students.   We are so excited about that.  We will start our “Fiesta” centers around 1:15 pm and we will enjoy Mexican food around 2:30 pm.  You are welcome to join us if you like.

Your child enjoyed lots of recess, exploration time, dress up, puzzles, snack, ABC/number, color and shape/pattern work this week. 

Have a nice weekend.

Secretary’s Week:  This week we are saying “thank you” to our secretary, Ms. Julie,  for all of her hard work.  We fingerpainted flowers today.  We will make a poster with the kids tomorrow to give to our secretary, Ms. Julie Wilson.

The preschool/K students had a good week.  Now that we have been working with the new teacher for two weeks now, it seems that all of the adults have the routines down.  We typically have at least four adults in the room in the mornings.  We get to work with centers.  The volunteers watch our students in the play area while the teachers and our aide, Ms. Lisa, pull the kids in small group to work on reading/writing readiness tasks.  Students have been reading simple books, working on colors, letters, shapes, numbers, cutting, pasting, gluing, painting, finger painting and exploring with writing utensils. 

It is working out nicely with the center times as the students get lots of small group attention in different developmental areas. 

Community Unit:

We are working on community places and people.  We are talking about different parts of a community and what is in a community:  schools, houses, parks, stores, restaurants, police station, fire station, library, etc.

Science in the community:  We are talking about living things in a community:  people, plants and animals.  We have live caterpillars that the kids are watching grow.  They will become pupas soon and then become butterflies.  We have read books this week about butterflies/caterpillars. 

We also have a mother duck nesting on the preschool/k playground.  The kids enjoy going out there to see the mother duck on her eggs.  Hopefully we will be able to see the baby ducks when they are born.

We have discussed that living things need food, water, air and shelter to survive in our community.

Stories this week:

Charlie the Caterpillar

A Butterfly is Born

Butterfly

Daisy and the Egg

Have You Seen my Duckling?

Goldilocks and the Three Bears