DATES TO REMEMBER:
-Wednesday, May 15th—Fieldtrip to Kettunen Center
-Monday, May 20th—Delayed Start
-Friday, May 24th—Fun to Be Fit (1:00)
-Monday, June 3rd—Track & Field (afternoon)
-Monday, June 10th—Last day of school
FIELDTRIP—WEDNESDAY
We will leave school around 8:30 and return around 2:30. Your child will need—a sack lunch, appropriate clothing for outside activities, & sunscreen (if desired). Just a reminder that Kettunen Center is also collecting non-perishable food items and paper products for the Feed the Need Project. We will provide a morning and afternoon snack and bug spray if needed. :) We are looking forward to a fun day of learning—outside!!
FUN TO BE FIT:
Our 3rd Annual Fun to Be Fit Day is scheduled for Friday, May 24th beginning @ 1:00. I am looking for a few parent volunteers to come in and help supervise a small group—it’s easy for Kindergarteners to get lost in the sea of runners :) I am also looking for a couple of volunteers to provide 12 pks of bottled water for our class after the event. Please let me know if you’d be willing to help out in any way. :)
BEHAVIOR:
As we wind down the school year, it gets harder for the students to focus and their behavior tends to decline. The nice weather last week seemed to really ‘trigger’ this. I’ve reminded the students that we still have a lot to learn in Kindergarten and that the rules and expectations have not changed. I am also giving an extra incentive by offering a special treat each Friday for those students who
haven’t moved their clips all week long. :)
READING:
Our focus letter for this week is the letter Yy and our focus text is Franklin Plays the Game, which we will use to work on identifying character traits and author’s purpose. We will introduce the sight words him & with. This week the students will also complete their end of the year Dibels benchmarking.
WRITING:
This week we will revisit Small Moments stories from earlier in the year. We will read several mentor texts and use them to identify the qualities of these types of stories. We will also complete a journal page reflecting on our fieldtrip to Kettunen Center.
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
This week we will continue our study of lifecycles—focusing on butterflies, frogs, and chicks. Our chicks should be hatching mid week—hopefully NOT while we are on the fieldtrip :) It is an exciting miracle to watch—and the students are very excited!
MATH:
This week we will practice building numbers 1-30 using base-10 blocks and writing our numbers 1-100. We will continue to work on addition using beans, unifix cube trains, and touchpoints.
