As you know, New Directions' does not have an attendance area. This time of year is so important to our school for enrollment purposes. Enrollment (for NEW families) for the 2019-2020 school year is underway! We find that word of mouth is the best way to market our school. In your friend and family groups, if anyone has questions about out school please invite them to contact our school or attend an informational session. The informational sessions are below:
January 24th at 5:00
January 29th at 6:00
We also have an Open House on January 18 from 8:00-1:00 for families to stop in and visit our school during the school day.
As always, families can also call Mrs. Frischmann at 766-6116 to set up individual tours.
Thank you!
Upcoming Events:
January 18: Half Day
January 21: No School
January 22 & 24: Family Nights-More info to come!
January 29: Field Trip to PAC
Reading: We will have our Super Reader celebration this week! Kindergartners will create a mask to show that they really are Super Readers! They will build snap word towers to knock down! Swat at letters to match a sound! Read with other Super Readers! It will be a day to celebrate how far we have come as readers!
Writing: We will be learning to write How To books during this unit. We will write a class book as a model in the beginning of the week. Students will begin writing their own books too! To help your child generate ideas to write about, talk through the steps of things your child does at home. For example, a bed time routine, cooking dinner, getting ready for school, etc.
Math: One of the big ideas of math this week will be teen numbers. We want the mathematicians to start to understand place value by seeing teen numbers as ten and extras. To, students will use dice to race to be the first to make a teen number. They are encouraged to add numbers and group math tools in ten and five groups to see the numbers quickly. Secondly, mathematicians will dump of cup full of chips to find out what teen number is in the cup. Then, they will draw a picture of that teen number and fill in the blanks to tell how many 10s and 1s make up the teen number.
Social Studies/Science: Last week, instead of starting our new science unit, we spent a little more time digging into our social curriculum to learn about what's expected and unexpected. We learned that when unexpected things happen, it's weird and it can change how people feel. We also learned that unexpected things do happen, and we need to think about how we can react to those in an appropriate way. We created this chart to document our thinking:
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