Pennies for Patients Fundraiser

Tomorrow is the last day to send in loose change or dollar bills to make a donation for Pennies for Patients. The money collected goes to help children with Cancer.  No donation is too small! Please donate if you can!!

Pennies For Patients

 Roxbury has partnered up with Pennies for Patients to raise money for children with cancer. We are asking all families to send in a Ziploc bag of any change you have. No donation is too small! If our class raises the most money, we earn a party! All donations must be in by Friday, March 31st.

Looking Ahead...

Words of the week: from, up
Letter of the week: We've been working with the vowel A. Over the last month, we have built words that have a consonant, vowel, consonant pattern, with the vowel being A.

These are the, "word families" we have learned:

-at
-an
-am

This week we will build words using -ag and -ad. 

Wednesday, March 29th is an early release day due to rescheduled conferences. Dismissal will begin at 1:20.

Celebrity of the Week

Kevin was the Celebrity of the Week! He told he is 6 years old, he likes to eat lollipops and when he is at home he likes to play Transformers!

Homework Rox Stars!

This post is better late than never!! Here are my tots who brought in ALL of their homework for the month of February. This includes letter homework, math homework and  all four pages of their book in a bag journal. Two cheers for my Rox Star students!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

After a snow day, delayed opening and two early release days, it didn't leave for much time to learn about St. Patrick's Day! We used Thursday and Friday to squeeze it all in!  Here are some of our special St. Patrick Day centers!

This was a word family match. Each shamrock had a word  on it. They had to read it and  write it  with the  other words that rhymed with it. Such as wig, pig, big.

  This was the race to 100! They had to roll the dice and whatever number they rolled, they put an X through that many squares. Whoever got to the end first, won!

                   My tots practiced the letter sounds, -ch, -sh, -th and -wh with Mrs. D.

       At my table, we wrote about who is worth more to us than gold!

            This center is ALWAYS an option, reading to self! Nice job, Ellie!

        On Friday, we made rainbows in hope we would find the leprechauns pot of gold. When we came back from lunch, we found something a little different. Our classroom was a mess! That sneaky leprechaun came in and messed it all up, left us gold coins and this letter!

We searched high and low to look for his shoe, and all we found was a paper shoe with another note that said, "HAHA, I tricked you!" We are hoping to catch him next year!

The girls were trying to clean up his big mess! :)

To end our day, we graphed Lucky Charms and ate them. Thank you to the Bruno family for sending in yummy shamrock treats that we took home!

Happy St. Patrick's Day from Room 210!! (many of our tots are missing, we had a few out sick!!)

Green!

Don't forget to wear green tomorrow for St. Patrick's Day!!!

Wednesday, March 15th

 Stamford has announced a two hour delay for tomorrow. Wednesday conferences have been cancelled and are rescheduled for March 29th.

School will begin at 10:45 and will dismiss at normal time. If you were scheduled for a conference tomorrow, we can work together to reschedule. If you are available Thursday or Friday, please let me know. Stay warm!!

SNOW DAY!

I hope you are all cozy and warm on this snowy day!

Don't forget- if you are looking to keep your child busy today, they can access Dreambox, RazKids and HeadSprout from home!

https://play.dreambox.com/login/9gd3/roxburyes

https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login

Writing

This is the newest writing tool that I've introduced to my tots! We use this to help us remember all the things we need to include when writing. They were so excited to use a dry erase marker to check it off!

Here we are taking our time and forming letters correctly. This is why the March book in a bag journal is focusing on handwriting and drawing pictures.

 Please encourage your child to take their time and try their best! I always say, I don't want work from someone who rushed to finish first, I want work where someone tried their best!! :)

Important Reminders

 Report cards will go home tomorrow with your child. If you have any questions regarding the report card, please bring them to your scheduled conference this week.

Your confirmed conference date and time will be on the report card. As I am sure you all know, we are expecting more snow this week. If there is no school on Wednesday, we will work together to reschedule those conferences.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week are early release days with dismissal beginning at 1:20.

Letters of the week: Vowel a and reviewing -ch, -sh, -th, -wh

Words of the week: all, so

If you did not hand in the I am Lucky Project it is not too late! Send it to school when it is finished.

 Keyrine was the Celebrity of the week! She told the class she is 6 years old, she likes to eat spaghetti and when she's not as school she likes to go to the park!

Birthday Celebration

My tots sure know how to make me feel special on my birthday! Thank you for all of the cards and gifts I received on Thursday. The kids were more excited for my birthday than I was and it warmed my heart!! 

Thank you to Mrs. D for making me a yummy cake and to the Galicia family for dropping off a cake for the class to share! XOXO

I am Lucky Projects!

Don't Forget...

March family projects are due tomorrow!!

Looking Ahead...

Letter sounds of the week: -ch, -sh, -th
we are also reviewing all vowels (a, e, i, o,u) This week, we will build words using the vowel a.

Words of the week: am, they

If you have not signed up for a conference yet, please do so ASAP. If I do not hear from all parents, I will assign an available time. The signup genius link is posted on a previous blog post. An email was also sent out.

Conferences will take place Wednesday March 15th, Thursday March 16th, Friday March 17th. All three days will be early release with dismissal beginning at 1:20.

Celebrity of the Week

Brandon was the Celebrity of the Week! He told the class he is 5 years old, his favorite food is pizza and when he is not at school he likes to play with his toys. Speaking of toys, he brought in his cool remote control car to share with his friends. They loved watching it drive around the rug! :)

On the Loose with Dr. Seuss

This past week was SO much fun! Each day was filled with delicious snacks, silly outfits and Dr. Seuss stories! Lets take a look at our CRAZY week!

On Monday, we wore red and blue in Honor of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish! We had a fishy snack filled with Swedish fish and assorted goldfish. We made a graph to see who wore what color.

We made addition stories using red and blue fish.

On Tuesday, we wore green in honor of Green Eggs and Ham.

Look at all this green!

We wrote about what we would want to eat instead of green eggs and ham, and had two yummy snacks. Our first snack was from the Bruno family- thank you!!

our treat at the end of the day was cookies!

In honor of Wacky Wednesday and Fox in Socks, we wore wacky clothes and crazy socks! We drew pictures of ourselves looking wacky and decorated a sock.

We had a sock parade through the hallways of Roxbury. This is us getting ready for the parade.

  We were so excited!

   Look how wacky we were! Michael and Brandon grew mustaches...

  Mikey, Christopher, Ellie and Alessia have different colored hair...

          Ethan and Brandon's outfits are inside out and backwards...

  Even the teachers got wacky! Here is me, Mrs. O'Brien (2nd grade teacher) and Mrs. Barford (pre-k teacher) being silly with our favorite glasses on!

Happy Wacky Wednesday!

In honor or Dr. Seuss's birthday and Cat in the Hat, all students were invited to wear hats to school. Thank you to Mrs. Purpero for making me my awesome hat!

Thank you Mrs. O'Brien for sending in a special and healthy Dr. Seuss snack!

Our last day of Dr. Seuss week was pajama day. We wore our cozy pjs with  hats we made using rhyming words.  We watched the original cartoon of Cat in the Hat too!

What an awesome week!!!

XO