DATES TO REMEMBER:
-Wed., May 9—Mobile Dentist
Monday, May 14—Delayed Start
-Friday, May 18—Summer Bridge Order is Due
-Tuesday, May 22—Fieldtrip/Kettunen Center
-Monday, May 28—No School/Memorial Day
-Tues., May 29—Kindergarten Program @ 1:30
-Friday, June 1—Fun to Be Fit Run
-Tuesday, June 5—Track & Field Day
-Wed., June 6—Last Day for Kindergartners
SPRING PROGRAM:
Our Kindergarten Spring Program is scheduled for Tuesday, May 29th @ 1:30 in the H.S. gym. The students will be singing a few songs that they have learned in Music this year. Please send in a baseball cap labeled with your child’s name by next week, as we will be using them to practice and then again for our performance.
FIELDTRIP TO KETTENUN CENTER:
A note went home last week regarding our upcoming fieldtrip. We will be going to Kettunen Center on Tuesday, May 22 for a day of exploration. The PTO is helping with the cost, so each student’s portion to pay is $1.50. Unfortunately, we have been asked to limit our number of chaperones, so each class is allowed to take up to 8 chaperones (I’m going on a first come/first serve basis). Cost for chaperones in $4.00. Please be sure to send in your child’s permission slip and money ASAP.
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
The chicks should be hatching out early this week. We have been looking forward to watching this process! They will stay in the classroom for a couple of days before returning to the Bell Farm. It is going to be an egg-citing week here at school!! This week we will continue our study of lifecycles, with our focus turning to . . . . Plants!
READING:
This week we will be working on the letter Ee and the sightwords him, her, his, hers. We will continue to work on the r & l blends, as well as the word chunks: ed, en, et, & ell. Since e is a vowel, we will review Flippy the Dolphin and practice reading words with both the long and short e sounds. Our two focus books this week are The Wolf’s Chicken Stew & Corduroy, which we will use to enhance our skills in predicting, drawing conclusions, and identifying character profiles. Students will be ‘shopping’ for new ‘good-books’ early this week. I continue to be impressed with their progress and enthusiasm for reading. I have rotated all of the books and bumped up their leveled books, to continue to challenge each student. It is so exciting to see them using their strategies during ‘read to self’ and ‘partner reading!’
WRITING:
This week we will continue looking for ‘fancy’ words in the stories that we read and add them to our list of ‘fancy words’ that we can use while writing. We will complete a couple of journal entries related to plants and seeds, and we will be writing about why our mom is special. We will also work on adjectives as we paint daisy portraits at the easel and compile a list of adjectives that ‘describe’ our masterpieces. We will also have a couple of days to immerse ourselves in Writer’s Workshop. I have been encouraging the students to write a book that ‘tells a story,’ either real or make-believe. I’m looking forward to seeing what they come up with.
MATH:
This week we will be working on identifying coins as we introduce the Quarter. We will also learn the Touchpoints for 2 & 3 and use them to practice ‘adding on.’ This week students will be assessed on identifying and writing their numbers 1-30 and matching the correct number of objects to the corresponding number—it’s hard to believe it’s time to assess again for report cards! It’s even harder to believe that we are wrapping up the school year!
