March Scholastic Book Orders

Scholastic Book Club's March order forms will be sent home in Friday folders.  There are lots of great spring books this month!  Please look over the flyers and consider purchasing some books for your child.

This month, I recommend the following titles:

SeeSaw:

The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle, $6.00

Fly, Monarch! Fly!, $4.00

The Easter Egg by Jan Brett, $18.00*

*I normally recommend cheaper books, but this is the brand-new hardback book by Jan Brett!

Firefly:

An Extraordinary Egg, $5.00

Not a Box, $4.00

The Jellybeans and the Big Dance, $3.00

You have two options for ordering: 

1. Select your choices, fill out the order form, and return it to school with cash or check (made out to Scholastic).
2. Place your book orders and pay with a credit card on-line by going to www.scholastic.com/bookclubs . Our class user name is Krank, and the password is books.

All orders are due by Monday, March 29th.

Chinese New Year

Today we celebrated the final day of Chinese New Year.  For snack, the children got to try using chopsticks while eating noodles.  They also ate some fortune cookies and yummy Chinese candy wrapped in rice paper.  After lunch, all of the kindergartners gathered for a Chinese New Year Parade.  Our class made dragon masks and red lanterns to carry, and Mr. Roberts (the music teacher) lent us some hand drums to play.  We marched behind Mrs. Donnelly's class and their amazing dragon (courtesy of Mrs. Feliciano).  As we marched up and down the hallways, classes came out to cheer us on.  What an exciting way to end the day!

Here are some pictures from the day:

Here's a very short video of the kids as the parade began:

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

We had a great time celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday yesterday.  For our activities, we focused on his two most famous books, The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham.  We've also been doing lots of rhyming activities.  What a fun day!

February Pictures

Here are some highlights from February: