A Peek At Our Week!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and a very happy Mother's Day! Please see below for pictures and updates from Room 115! 🌞

Important Dates:

May 16th:

Early Release

12:25pm Dismissal

May 21st:

Kindergarten Music Concert

9:15am

May 26th:

Memorial Day

No School

May 29th:

Kindergarten Field Trip

(Details Below)

Announcements:

Kindergarten Field Trip

On May 29th the Kindergarten classes will be taking a field trip to Franklin Park Zoo! Permission slips were due last week, so if you have not sent back your child's please do so as soon as possible. More information will be shared as the time gets closer, but please be sure to mark your calendar for this very exciting day!

Author Visit

Last week we welcomed author Katherine Applegate to Boyden School and enjoyed hearing about her book titled Odder: An Otter's Story. To prepare for her visit, the Kindergarten classes made adorable otter puppets to display!

Curriculum Update:

Fundations

Last week in Fundations we learned to read the sight word out. We also practiced building our reading fluency by chunking or "scooping" sentences instead of reading word by word, and wrote sentences that began with uppercase letters, had appropriate punctuation, and included finger spaces. 

Reader's Workshop

Last week in Reader's Workshop we began module (unit) 8 titled From Plant to Plate. During this unit we will work to answer the essential question: "How do plants become food?" and started building our understanding by reading the books Plants Feed Me by Lizzy Rockwell, and Planting Seeds by Kathryn Clay. We also made and checked predictions, identified the central idea of a text, and put steps in a sequence.

Math

In math we continue to practice solving addition and subtraction story (word) problems. We also reviewed the concept of estimating by using popsicle sticks!

ABC Countdown!

We had a great time kicking off our ABC Countdown to summer as we celebrated the letters A and B!

Click here to watch our Anything but a Backpack parade!

Bubble Day! 🫧

Friday's gray, chilly weather didn't dampen our excitement for bubble day!

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! 🍎📖🚌