• Next Reading Challenge due Wednesday, May 18
• May 20 (this Friday) — Kindergarten “Graduation” Pictures. We will be taking each student’s picture outside wearing a “graduation crown” with a banner and balloons in the background. We will put your child’s picture in the google drive folder we shared with you. If you would like to take your own picture, the backdrops will be up and you’re welcome to take pictures when you pick them up at 10:30.
• May 25 – Field Day – parent volunteers needed to help supervise students while they play on inflatable slides and blow up obstacle courses (8:30-9:30 am). Sign up here.
• May 26th – Kindergarten field trip to Treehouse Children’s Museum. *Take note: we anticipate arriving back at the school at 12:00. If you haven’t already, please click on the following link to complete a permission form for your child: Field Trip Permission Form
• May 27- Yearbook signing (last day of school)

Students may wear Star Wars shirts on Wednesday, May 4th (May The Fourth Be With You). All other clothing items should be uniform compliant. This is completely optional.

Our awesome administrators are providing a motivational treat as part of our Kinder testing! Please fill out this form to give your child permission: Testing Treat Permission

We are looking forward to our upcoming Treehouse Museum field trip on Thursday, May 26, 8:30-12:00. 

$4.00 donations are welcome to help with our field trip expenses, including the cost of bus transportation. Donations may be paid in the Q1 office. 

Please click on the following link to complete a permission form for your child: Field Trip Permission Form

We are now beginning Unit 10 in Language Arts. Below are the sight words, oral vocabulary words, letters, and sounds we will be mastering during the next 3 weeks.  In addition, we continue to read decodable books and passages.

As a class in math, we are finishing up shapes and will be exploring measurement; length, height, and weight. Individually, the students are working to master their current selected math standard. Ask them about their Nearpod lessons.

In science and STEM, we are exploring forces and motions. We are working together in small groups to solve problems using the principles of force and motion that we are learning.

A day missed in Kindergarten is hard to make-up, but here’s something you can do at home! Each student has their own individualized learning path in our iReady computer program for reading and math and it’s available during school hours. Go to clever.com and log in using the QR code on the front of their take home folder. Easy as that! Here’s the schedule we follow at school:

Mondays and Wednesdays: Math (pass off at least 2 lessons each week with 80% or better)

Tuesdays and Thursdays: Reading (pass off at least 2 lessons each week with 80% or better)

The link is always available on the right sidebar of our blog as well [“Clever (iReady)”]. Thanks for helping your child stay caught up on their iReady program when absent!

*Note: In the past, we emphasized getting at least 20 minutes in each subject weekly, but now the emphasis is on passing at least 2 lessons in math and 2 lessons in reading each week with 80% or better. If the lessons are super short (like some of the letter lessons), we encourage them to spend more time and complete more lessons.