Sending this as a reminder (only half our class has taken advantage of these free books so far)! 🙂

Our class will have the opportunity to eat lunch in the lunchroom to prepare for 1st grade on Monday, May 20. We will be introduced to the lunchroom procedures, practice going through the lunch line (if choosing school lunch), eat at the tables, and clean up. Please indicate lunch choice and sign up to volunteer here.

Thank You!

Looking Ahead:

• May 6-May 7: End of Year assessments continue
• May 10: Final return date for library books
• May 17: Ms. Lisa’s Kindergarten Completion Celebration 11:00-11:30 am in the library (parents are invited)
• May 20: 1st grade class visit (we will briefly meet the 1st grade teachers)
• May 20: Practice eating lunch at school. Our class will have the opportunity to eat lunch in the lunchroom to prepare for 1st grade! We will be introduced to the lunchroom procedures, practice going through the lunch line (if choosing school lunch), eat at the tables, and clean up. More information and lunch choices will be posted soon.
• May 21: Field Trip to the Children’s Treehouse Museum (*NOTE Class Time Change: School will be held from 11-2 that day–for our class only)
  • School:11:00-2:00; Museum: 12-1:30
• May 22: Field day
• May 23: K-2 talent show and yearbook signing
• May 24: Last day of school

Here’s a quick overview of new things we learned this week:

Comprehension strategy/skill: Ask and Answer Questions and Poetry: Rhyme. We read several different texts to go along with our theme: “Sort It Out: In what ways are things alike? How are they different?”

High Frequency Words (Power Words): come, does

Sound and spelling review: u, g, w, v, j, q, y, z and introduced long /e/ (spelled e_e, ee, and e)

Vocabulary: similar, sort, endless, perfect, experiment

Looking Ahead:

• April 29-May 7: End of Year assessments (treats permission)
• May 3: Last day to check out library books
• May 10: Final return date for library books
• May 17: Ms. Lisa’s Kindergarten Completion Celebration 11:00-11:30 am in the library (parents are invited)
• May 20: 1st grade class visit (we will briefly meet the 1st grade teachers)
• May 20: Practice eating lunch at school. Our class will have the opportunity to eat lunch in the lunchroom to prepare for 1st grade! We will be introduced to the lunchroom procedures, practice going through the lunch line (if choosing school lunch), eat at the tables, and clean up. More information and lunch choices will be posted soon.
• May 21: Field Trip to the Children’s Treehouse Museum (*NOTE Class Time Change: School will be held from 11-2 that day–for our class only)
  • School:11:00-2:00; Museum: 12-1:30
• May 22: Field day
• May 23: K-2 talent show and yearbook signing
• May 24: Last day of school

Here’s a quick overview of new things we learned this week:

Comprehension strategy/skill: “Make and confirm predictions”/”Events: Sequence”. We read several different texts to go along with our theme: “Problem Solvers: What can happen when we work together?”

High Frequency Words (Power Words): good, who

Sound and spelling review: v and x /ks/ and introduced long /u/.

Vocabulary: opinion, decide, grateful, marvel, ragged

Math: Lesson 25 Compose and Decompose Teen Numbers with Symbols

Science: This week, we investigated how to bring light and warmth to a cold mountain town that doesn’t see the sun throughout winter. (This lesson is actually based on the story of a real town in Norway)! Students experimented with different materials and discovered that sunlight can be redirected using reflective materials. Encourage your child to notice the heating effects of the sun all around them!

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 (some students are reviewing the short vowel sounds, rather than the long vowel sounds).  In addition, we continue to read decodable books and passages. You can encourage us to read the passages we bring home each week. We are also writing sentences about the texts we read.

As a class in math, we will be reviewing many of the skills we have explored this year. Individually, the students are working to master their current selected math standard and pass their math fluency level. With just a few more weeks remaining, we are excited to see how far we can go! Keep up the great work!

In science and STEM, we are exploring the effects of sunlight on the earth’s surface. We are also caring for caterpillars, and look forward to releasing our butterflies into nature.

Looking Ahead:

• April 26: Dollar Dress Down Day
• April 29: End of Year assessments begin
• May 17: Kindergarten Completion Celebration 11:00-11:30 am in the library (parents are invited)
• May 21: Field Trip to the Children’s Treehouse Museum (*NOTE Class Time Change: School will be held from 11-2 that day–for our class only)
• May 22: Field day and yearbook signing
• May 24: Last day of school

Here’s a quick overview of new things we learned this week:

Comprehension strategy/skill: “Reread” and “Details: Time Order”. We read several different texts to go along with our theme: “Our Natural Resources”

High Frequency Words (Power Words): where, look

Sound and spelling review: a, e, i, o and introduced long /o/.

Vocabulary: natural resources, create, weave, designs, knowledge

Math: Lesson 24: “Build with Shapes”

Science: This week we have been making observations about how sunshine heats things up! And we’ve noticed that things stay cooler if they are in the shade! In an activity called Cool Cows, children noticed that cows (like people) use shade to stay cool. The children became junior engineers, thinking about how to invent a shade structure to keep cows cool in a field with no shade trees.

Kindergarten is visiting Treehouse Children’s Museum on May 21st! Please take note that our class will be held from 11:00 am-2:00 pm that day instead of our normal time (we’re booked at the museum from 12-1:30).

More information about the field trip and volunteer sign ups will be posted soon!