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Hello Parents and Families!

Happy Reading Month! I hope your children have been telling you great stories about how much they love Camp Read A Lot! This week we focused on Dinosaurs! Here are some pictures of Camp so far!

Camper Bryce	Cassious with his Camp Read A Lot gear
Matthew D in his camp gear	Kennedy and Ava
Eddy being silly	Samantha at the Library, but at camp we call it the "Information Station"
Ava, Evan, Cassious and Aiden getting ready to check out some nonfiction and fiction books!	Happy Camper Alaina
Another Happy Camper	Aiden with his nonfiction text
D'Anthony	Matthew W. showing us his nonfiction book!
All the Happy Campers listening to a story at the "Information Station"

I have also added some pictures of the children working on various activities during center time. Click here to check them out!

On Monday, after our daily calendar activities, we spent 30 minutes at our NEW center choices. After centers, we had snack and brainstormed what we already know about dinosaurs and what we want to know in a KWL chart. From that chart, we chose some words or phrases that describe dinosaurs. We then made a dinosaur shape poem (which is now displayed on one of our bulletin boards). We sure are a DINO-MITE class! When we were done with our dinosaur shape poems, we went on a hike outside and then played on the playground. The weather has been too good- we'd be silly not to take advantage of it! After we went outside we read our new Dinosaur poem!

On Tuesday, after our daily calendar activies, we uncovered a secret message about reading at camp! We then went to gym. After gym, we had our snacks then moved into centers. After centers we did Writer's Workshop and then had a few hard workers share their work in the Author's Chair.

On Wednesday, we had Mr. F as our guest teacher while I had a grade level meeting with Mrs. Mann. The students did their calendar activities, went outside and then had snack. After snack, Mr. F read them Danny and the Dinosaur Go to Camp by Syd Hoff. The students then went to the library to check out a book and listen to a story. After library, the children went to their centers and then worked on the number 10 in their number books. The children loved having Mr. F in our classroom!

On Thursday, after calendar, the students moved straight into their centers. After just a short time at centers, we cleaned up and went to gym. We only had a few minutes after gym to eat our snacks before the Paleo Joe assembly. Paleo Joe is a VERY neat guy with LOTS of cool fossils and models of dinosaur teeth and bones! The assembly was quite long but the children managed to stay on their bottoms and were model students! I am so proud of them! After the assembly, they went to music for just a short while.

On Friday, we had a very special guest! Eddy's Grandfather, Tom Dorr, came in and shared some fossils, dinosaur eggs and so much more from his collection. We were so grateful to have him share with us. After the presentation we went upstairs to our buddies classroom. Our buddies helped us write thank you letters to Eddy's Grandfather for coming in. After meeting with our buddies, we came back to class to do our calendar activities. After calendar we went down to the computer lab and played the paleontologist game and uncovered dinosaur bones! After the computer lab, we came back to the classroom for snack and centers. Click here to see pictures from Mr. Dorr's Dinosaur Presentation today!

Matthew W and Aiden with their 4th grade buddies	Jett with his fourth grade buddy
Samantha and Zoe	Campers getting ready to go on a hike
They found some critters on our hike!!!	Computer Lab
Computer Lab

If you do not send your child to school with a snack, I do have a stash of treats that I can give them.

In respect to the other children in class, if your child is sick, please keep them home from school. Germs spread so easily at this age, that we would like to keep the healthy children healthy! We wash our hands and use the "Magic Soap" as often as possible here to prevent the spread of these nasty germs.

We do not have scheduled conferences for the second half of the year, but if you are concerned or would like to conference at any time, please let me know!

The homework that was send home today is due this Friday, March 19.

Happy Camping!

Ms. Dew

Dates to Remember:



March 12	Father/Daughter Dance 7-9pm
March 19	Market Day Orders Due
March 20	Mother/Son Bowling Outing 1:30-4:30
March 22	Oak Ridge Day: Wear Oak Ridge paraphernalia to school!
March 23	Mismatch Day: Wear WaCkY Clothes to school!
March 24	Pajama Day: Wear your comfy PJs and bring your favorite stuffed animal!
March 25	Wacky Hat Day: Wear a WaCkY hat! and pick up your Market Day orders
March 26	Sports Day and Movie Night (7pm) to watch 'The Game Plan'

Week of March 8-12:

Centers

Art- Fossil Rubbings

ABC- Beginning consonant Lotto game

Listening- An Extraordinary Egg by Leo Lionni

Letters- Writing Simple Words

Dramatic Play- House, Puppets, Work Bench

Science- Microscope and metamorphic rocks

1,2,3s- Number fly swatter game

Other Centers- Mega Legos, Write around the room, Writing Center, Read around the room, Reading Corner, Tyrannosaurus Puzzle, Poetry Corner

Writer’s Workshop

This week students had the choice to write in books and on normal journaling paper.

When students share in the classroom, we have our friends give us 2 stars and a wish. The stars are compliments or connections we make with their writing. The wish is an idea for the Author to improve on or to add.

Please continue to work on writing at home!

Making Meaning

We did not do Making Meaning this week. Instead we read several books about Dinosaurs. The students were asked many comprehension questions about the text (before, during and after).