A Peek At Our Week!

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

Important Dates:

May 29th:

Kindergarten Field Trip

June 6th:

Field Day

June 13th:

Early Release

Last Day of School

Announcements:

Kindergarten Field Trip

A friendly reminder that our field trip to Franklin Park Zoo will take place this Thursday, May 29th. A notice with more information/details will be sent home with your child tomorrow. Please be on the lookout!

ABC Countdown

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

Hat Day 🎩👒

Insect Day 🐞

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

The students above practice measuring the length of insects using non-standard units.

We were thrilled to find two worms and a baby grasshopper on our hunt! 

Luau Day

Aloha from Room 115! 🌴

Curriculum Update:

Fundations

Last week in Fundations we learned to read the sight words with and they. The students learned a fun new song called There is no "A" in They to help them remember the spelling of this tricky word. See if they can sing it to you at home! 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!

Reader's Workshop

Last week in Reader's Workshop we continued module (unit) 8 titled From Plant to Plate, and worked hard to answer the essential question: "How do plants become food?" We enjoyed reading the books PB&J Hooray! by Janet Nolan, and Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert. Both texts explored where the foods we like to eat come from. In addition to these stories the children also practiced identifying the central idea of a text, and putting events in order.

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!

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! 🍎📖🚌