A Peek At Our Week!

 I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed the beautiful weather! Please see below for announcements and updates from Room 115! 🌞

Important Dates:

May 22nd:

Kindergarten Music Concert

8:45am in the Cafeteria

May 25th:

Memorial Day

No School

June 4th:

Zoo Field Trip!

Announcements:

Kindergarten Field Trip 🦁

On June 4th the Kindergarten classes will be taking a field trip to Franklin Park Zoo! Permission slips were sent home last week. Please note that the cost of the field trip is $4 per child. Do not hesitate to reach out if I can be of any assistance with this fee. More information will be shared as the time gets closer, but please be sure to mark your calendar for this very exciting day!

ABC Countdown!

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

Click here to watch our Anything but a Backpack parade!

Bubble Day! 🫧

We were so glad the weather cooperated long enough for us to celebrate bubble day on Thursday!

Chalk Day 

Curriculum Update:

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 Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner, and Earthworms by Lisa J. Amstutz, which helped us build a deeper understanding of this unit's theme. The children also continued to make and check predictions, identify the central idea of a text, and compare and contrast information.

Some students chose to make earthworm crowns at Quiet Time! These special crowns displayed facts we learned last week. Did you know that earthworms do not have eyes OR ears?!? 🪱

Phonics

Last week in phonics we continued to practice reading words with initial/beginning blends, or when two consonant letters appear before the vowel. The focus of our learning was blends with the letter r, and the students did a great job decoding words such as crab, drop, and grin.

Math

In math we continue to practice solving addition and subtraction story/word problems, and circled back to measurement last week as well!

Another highlight of our week was visiting Mrs. Hix's classroom and helping her second grade students with a measurement project they were working on!

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! 🍎📖🚌