DATES TO REMEMBER:
-Tues., May 29—Kindergarten Program @ 1:30
-Friday, June 1—Fun to Be Fit Run @ 1:00
-Tuesday, June 5—Track & Field Day @ 12:30
-Wed., June 6—Last Day for Kindergartners
FUN TO BE FIT:
Our second annual Fun to Be Fit Race is this Friday, June 1st. I will distribute the students’ t-shirts on the day of the race; they are a bright blue with black lettering in case you’d like to coordinate colors.☺ If the weather is warm, I would suggest shorts & sunscreen. Please be sure to send your child with tennis shoes. If it is cool in the morning, students can change into shorts after lunch. We will start our run at 1:00 in front of the elementary office. If you are planning on joining us, please plan to arrive between 12:30-12:45 and meet us in the classroom; it will be much easier to find us inside vs. outside. Also, if you volunteered to provide juice and cookies, please send them in by Wednesday, so that we can get them distributed to the cooks.
TRACK & FIELD DAY:
Our track & field day is scheduled for Tuesday, June 5th, in the afternoon. Activities will take place up at the track, beginning at 12:30 and ending at 2:30. Please be sure to send your child with tennis shoes, sunscreen, & a water bottle. Parents & grandparents are welcome to come and watch the events.
*FYI-It tends to be windier/cooler up on the track.
READING:
This week we will be reviewing all of the letter sounds and work on reading and writing words with short vowels and the magic e. I am wrapping up my assessments with the students and will assess them on all 50 sightwords this week. Our focus books for this week are Machines at Work & Flower Garden. We will use these 2 texts to work on vocabulary & comprehension. We have 1 last round of literacy stations to complete which will focus on blends, sightwords, rhyming, retelling, & short vowels. We will shop one final time for ‘good-fit’ books today. I will send home ‘reading folders’ through this week and collect them on Monday. Next week, students will bring home their book boxes with ALL of the booklets they have made so that they can continue to practice reading over the summer.
WRITING:
This week the students will add to their May Journals, writing about why their dad is special and looking toward the future to predict what they will look like when they are 10 years old, and what they want to be when they grow up. We will have some time for Writer’s Workshop, I continue to be impressed with the stories they create.
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
This week we will continue our Science Unit on Earth Materials; our focus this week will be on water. We will learn about the importance of water to life on Earth, the different forms it can take, and some of it’s unique properties. We will conduct several fun experiments with water.
MATH:
This week we will continue to work on addition, learning the touchpoints for 5 and using them to add 5. We will also review telling time by the hour. Wednesday morning we will be going to the computer lab for Delta Testing (a math assessment on the computer). This is a first for us, but something the students will take part in throughout elementary.
*Special thanks to the parents and grandparent who chaperoned & helped make our fieldtrip such a success!
*I will be out of the classroom Wednesday afternoon so that I can attend the Middle School Talent Show. Mrs. Freeland will be filling in for me.
