Primary Weekly Newsletter!
Jan 16-19, 2024

Great Kindness Challenge –

Our school is proudly participating in The Great Kindness Challenge next week, a week-long program dedicated to creating a culture of kindness and compassion in communities worldwide. To help our students practice kindness and put their compassion into action, they will receive a Great Kindness Challenge checklist.  We will encourage all students to complete as many acts of kindness as possible. We are going to dress up each day with different themes to remind us of kindness.

• Monday: “Team Kindness” Sports Day: Dress as your favorite sports team
• Tuesday: “Share the Kindness” Twin Day: Coordinate with a friend to dress like twins (or triplets)
• Wednesday: “Crazy for Kindness” Crazy Hair and/or Crazy Socks Day
• Thursday: “I Dream of Kindness” Pajama Day
• Friday: “Cheetahs are Kind” School spirit day: dress in your Fantastic Friday shirt and school colors of black and yellow

Jan 22-26 – Greak Kindness Challenge, see above

Feb 1 -No School, Teacher work day

Feb 19-23 – No School, Feb Break

Kindergarten – Reading Eggs 25

Mathseeds lesson 19

(2nd Year Primary also do Driving Tests in Mathseeds)

TK – Reading Eggs lesson 16

Mathseeds lesson 15

Last week we introduced letters Gg and Qq.  We also worked on adding two digits up to sums of 6. Montessori jobs introduced were CVC word lists, swivel words, and the 100 Chain. On Friday students painted a butterfly with Q-tips, made a quilt craft and drew a queen

CocoKids, located in Concord, offers free online parenting information classes. You can find the complete list here: Events from March 28, 2024 – July 18, 2024 › Training › – CocoKids

Here are two of my favorites: We Can! Energize our Families Workshop – CocoKids and

Parent Cafe – CocoKids

First Five Contra Costa offers free services in Antioch for children from birth to age 5. Services include parenting classes, early childhood education, and advocacy.