Dear Parents,

Our annual Easter Egg Hunt is this Thursday. Pre-K will hunt eggs at 9:45 and kindergarten will hunt eggs at 10:30. The Easter Egg Hunt will take place on the football field. We ask that all visitors remain in the football stands. Kona Ice will be available after the egg hunts are over!

On Monday your child will bring home ordering information for the Bugtussle Lane candle fundraiser. This is another great way to help support our school while getting some great-smelling candles for yourself!

Don't forget that this week is a four day week. There will be no school on Friday, April 18th due to the Easter holiday. We will see our students back on Monday, April 21st!

Mrs. Bowling

We will continue to focus on what it means to have courage during our guidance lessons this month!

Last week's tip was to read, read, read. This week's tip is write, write, write! In both pre-k and kindergarten it is so important to practice writing skills. The most important thing at this age is that students learn to listen to the sounds in the words they want to write, and to write the letter that makes the sound they hear. It will not always be spelled correctly at this age, and that is totally normal! So, give your kiddos a piece of paper and a writing utensil and let them go for it. Praise them for trying and expect that it won't be perfect! As they develop, correct spelling will come.

The first picture below is a pre-k student's writing. You can see that she attempted to spell the word "colors." The second writing sample belongs to a kindergartener. You can see that this student is putting space between words, incorporating punctuation, and writing more than one sentence. This is what we want our kinder students to be doing by the end of kindergarten!

We would like to recognize our pre-k and kindergarten student who had perfect attendance and no tardies during the month of March! They earned a Sonic gift card to enjoy. Next we are proud to recognize Ms. Lexi Brandt as our most recent Feature Teacher. Lexi is a para in one of our ECSE classrooms. Finally, congratulations to this little one for great behavior!

April

04/14: Spring Candle Fundraiser beings  

04/17:  Easter Egg Hunt morning, 9:45 Pre-K and 10:30 kinder 

04/18:  Easter Holiday 

04/23:  Administrative Assistants' Day 

04/29: Candle fundraiser forms due 

May

05/01:  School Principal Day

05/01:  Kona Ice Fundraiser

05/02:  School Lunch Hero Day

05/05-05/09: Teacher Appreciation Week 

05/06:  National Nurses Day

05/07: Pre-K Field Day 9:00-11:30

05/08: Kinder Field Day 9:00-11:30 

05/13:  4th Nine Weeks Jamboree 

05/13:  GT Showcase 

05/15:  Senior Walks at each campus

05/18:  National Speech Pathologist Day

05/20:  Special Olympics 

05/22:  Kindergarten Graduation

05/23:  Early Release/Last Day of School 

With a valid ID, parents are welcome to join their child for lunch based on the alpha of their last name!

The best way to get your child off to a great start is to make a commitment to have them at school every day. Good attendance is a strong predictor of future academic success. We are busy every minutes of the day in Pre-K and Kindergarten with learning and we do not want your child to miss out on anything!