A Peek At Our Week!

  I hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend and enjoyed the beautiful weather! It's hard to believe we are entering the last few weeks of Kindergarten! 🌞

Important Dates:

May 31st:

Kindergarten Field Trip

(See Below)

June 11th:

Field Day

June 13th:

Early Release

Last Day of School

Announcements:

Franklin Park Zoo Field Trip

A friendly reminder that our class will be traveling to Franklin Park Zoo this Friday, May 31st. Permission slips and the $2 cost towards the bus was due last Friday. If you have not sent in your child's permission slip and fee, please do so as soon as possible. Details about Friday's trip will be sent out later this week.

ABC Countdown

It was another busy week for our ABC Countdown to Summer! Last week the class enjoyed insect, Jack Hartmann, kite, luau, and movie days. Please enjoy a few pictures from our fun (and also educational!) activities.

Insect Day 🐞

On Monday we had a great time learning about the characteristics of insects and even went on a bug hunt!

Mrs. Fields found a frog during our hunt! 🐸

Kite Day 🪁

It took some time (and patience!) but we got our kites up and flying!

Luau Day 💮

Aloha from Room 115! 🍍

Thanks so much for taking a peek at our week! Please check back soon to watch us learn, grow, and play in the wonderful world that is K! 🍎📖🚌

A Peek At Our Week!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed today's beautiful weather! Please find a few announcements, as well as curriculum updates from Room 115 below. 💮

Important Dates:

May 23rd:

K Music Concert

9:15am

May 27th:

Memorial Day

No School

May 31st:

Kindergarten Field Trip

(See Below)

Announcements:

Music Concert

A friendly reminder that the Kindergarten music concert will take place this Thursday, May 23rd at 9:15am. Since Thursday is also Luau day for our ABC Countdown, please feel free to send in any tropical clothing your child would like to change into for after the concert. 𝅘𝅥𝅮🌴

Kindergarten Field Trip

On May 31st the Kindergarten classes will be taking a field trip to Franklin Park Zoo! Permission slips are due on Friday, May 24th. Please be sure to sign your child's permission slip and send in the $2 fee by this day so that they are able to attend. Also, due to the large number of parents who offered to chaperone, I will be putting names in a hat and picking randomly. I will be notifying parents who have been selected by the end of the week. 

Star Student ⭐

Congratulations to Dante who was our Star Student last week! Every child has now had a turn to be the Star Student, and we will celebrate all of our Room 115 friends and their achievements this year during the remaining few weeks of school. 

ABC Countdown

We had a great time continuing with our ABC Countdown to summer as we celebrated the letters D, E, F, G, and H. Please enjoy a few pictures from these very exciting days!

Piggy and Elephant Day🐷🐘

The beginning of the week was the perfect time to celebrate our favorite animal friends Piggie and Gerald!

Hat Day 🎩

Friday was the perfect day for hat day! We also enjoyed sharing our games with our 5th grade buddies.

Curriculum Update:

Fundations

Last week in Fundations we learned to read the sight words they and with. We have also kicked our sentence writing practice into high gear as we prepare for first grade. The student are consistently being reminded to use appropriate capitalization, punctuation, and finger spaces between words and are making excellent progress!

Math

In math we continue to practice solving addition and subtraction problems. The children were also introduced to counting by 2s last week! We practiced this skill in small groups and also played a whole group game called Sparkle! This has quickly become a class favorite. Ask your child about the game and how to play!

We also reviewed the concept of estimating last week! The students had to estimate how far they could jump and then measured the distance with popsicle sticks. Monday's beautiful weather made this a perfect activity to do outside! 🌞

Science

Wednesday was a bittersweet day as we said good-bye to our beautiful butterflies! We had SO much fun watching them grow and change as we learned about the butterfly life cycle. 🦋

Thanks so much for taking a peek at our week! Please check back soon to watch us learn, grow, and play in the wonderful world that is K! 🍎📖🚌

A Peek At Our Week!

 I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and a very happy Mother's Day! Please find a few        announcements, as well as curriculum updates from Room 115 below. 💮

Important Dates:

May 17th:

Early Release Day

12:25pm Dismissal

May 23rd:

K Music Concert

9:15am

May 27th:

Memorial Day

No School

May 31st:

Kindergarten Field Trip

(See Below)

Announcements:

Kindergarten Field Trip

On May 31st the Kindergarten classes will be taking a field trip to Franklin Park Zoo! Permission slips for our trip were sent home last week. Please be sure to sign your child's permission slip and send in the $2 fee by May 24th so that they are able to attend. Thank you so much!

Star Student ⭐

Congratulations to Gio who was our Star Student last week! We look forward to learning about, and celebrating another friend from our class in the week ahead!

Puppet Show

On Friday the Kindergarten and first grade classes enjoyed a very special puppet show! Thank you to the Boyden PAC for bringing in such a fun and entertaining performer. It was a wonderful way to end a busy week!

ABC Countdown

We had a great time kicking off our ABC Countdown to summer as we celebrated the letters A, B and C. Please enjoy pictures from Anything But a Backpack, Bubble, and Chalk Day!

Anything But a Backpack 

Click here to watch our Anything But a Backpack Parade!

Bubble Day! 

Chalk Day!

Curriculum Update:

Fundations

Last week in Fundations we learned to read the sight words this and that. We also continued to practice building our reading fluency by chunking or "scooping" sentences, as well as putting words in the correct order to make sentences that look and sound right!

Reader's Workshop

We continue to develop our reading skills as we work through our Avid Readers unit. Last week the students practiced bringing their stories to life by acting them out! We also used speech and thought bubbles to make predictions about what characters might be thinking and feeling or saying in given situations. In next week's lessons we will think and react to nonfiction texts!

Math

In math we continue to practice solving addition and subtraction story (word) problems. We also counted and compared numbers by playing a fun game called Bug Catchers! 🪲

Science

Our caterpillars continue to grow and thrive! Last week we enjoyed watching them as they formed their chrysalises, and on Thursday we transferred them to their pavillion where one quickly emerged as a butterfly! We are hoping to find more butterflies have made their way out of their cozy chrysalises when we return to school tomorrow! 🤞

Thanks so much for taking a peek at our week! Please check back soon to watch us learn, grow, and play in the wonderful world that is K! 🍎📖🚌