Friday, May 29, 2015

May 29, 2015

We are quickly finishing up with the last few days of Kindergarten.  If you could please send in 2 magic erasers next week, that will help us clean our tables and chairs.  Remember that Wednesday is Field Day.  Please have your student wear the Field Day shirt that they will receive and comfy shorts and shoes!  Thursday is our field trip to the zoo.  Children may wear comfy clothes and please remember to pack a bag lunch that day.  Monday, June 8 is the last day of school!  It is also a 2:00 Dismissal.  You will receive your report cards on the last day in your child's folder.  Please let me know if you are not going to be here that day.


Upcoming Dates:

June 3- Field Day
June 4- Field Trip to Zoo (10:00am-1:00pm)
June 5- Awards Ceremony 9:30 and Mass 1:45 (Kindergarten doesn't usually receive any awards)
June 8- Last Day of School/2:00 Dismissal

Theme: Pirates/Summer

Word Family: im/id

Poem: Where is Pirate's Chest?

Author of the Month: Oliver Jeffers

Religion: Daniel and the Lions

Math: Fact Families
           Think Math

Have a great week!

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

May 26, 2015

A few reminders:

- Library books are due immediately!
- We will be taking a field trip on Thursday, June 4 to the zoo.  If you would like to chaperone, please let me know!  Students may wear their own clothes that day and also need to bring a sack lunch.
- Please send in a roll of paper towels for field day.
- Field Day is Wednesday, June 3rd.


Theme: Pirates/Summer

Sight Words: could/again

Wonderful Word: amusing

Poem: Pirate's ABC Chant

Authors of the Month: Mercer Mayer/Robert Munsch

Word Family: -ud/-us/-up

Tricky Vowel: ai

Math: -counting on
          - decomposing numbers
          -fact families
          -2D vs 3D shapes

Writing: -sequence writing
              - How to Plant a Flower

Word Work: -changing one letter to make a new word (Word Ladders)

Science: identify and explain possible uses for an object based on its properties and compare these uses with other students' ideas

Have a great week!

Friday, May 15, 2015

May 15, 2015

We've been busy in kindergarten finishing up everything to get ready for 1st grade!  The school supply list for your students for next year is in the Communication Folder today.  The last day to turn in library books is May 22.

May 19- 2:00 Dismissal
May 25- No School
June 3- Field Day
June 8- Last Day of School


We'll be doing a project over the next two weeks called the Great Egg Drop.  Students will construct contraptions as a team and then we will put an egg in them and see if the egg breaks or not.  I need 2 dozen eggs for this project.  If you can donate a dozen, please email me :)


Theme: Plants

Authors of the Month: Mercer Mayer and Robert Munsch

Sight Words: they/where

Wonderful Word: suspicious

Poem: What Do Plants Need?

Tricky Vowels: oa

Word Family: -y (cry, dry, fly, fry, sky, sly, spy, try, why)

Religion: The Prodigal Son
                  The Rosary

Math: place value
            decomposing numbers
            2D vs 3D shapes

Writing: fiction writing (characters, setting, events, problems)

Science: 
-identify and explain possible uses for an object based on its properties and compare these uses with other students' ideas
-describe and compare living plants in terms of growth, parts, shape, size, color, and texture

Have a great week!

Friday, May 8, 2015

May 8, 2015

Happy Mother's Day to all!  Hope you have a great weekend!

We started our Plants Unit this week.  We planted our own plants,"Hairy Harrys", on Thursday.

Upcoming Dates:

May 19- 2:00 Dismissal
May 25- No School
June 3- Field Day
June 8- Last Day of School


Theme: Plants

Authors of the Month: Mercer Mayer and Robert Munsch

Sight Words: love/friend

Wonderful Word: tremble

Tricky Vowels: ea

Word Family: -old (bold, cold, fold, gold, hold, mold, scold, sold, told)

Poems: Plants

Religion: The Rosary
                 The Prodigal Son

Math: 2D vs 3D shapes
           greater than, less than, equal to


Word Work: long and short vowels sounds
                      sounding out magic e words

Writing: narratives

Science: describe and compare living plants in terms of growth, parts, shapes, size, color, and texture


Have a great week!

Friday, May 1, 2015

May 1, 2015

Remember that next Wednesday, May 6, is our school-wide Mother's Mass.  Students can invite their mothers or mother-figures to join us for Mass at 8:15.  Please have your student drop off their backpack in the classroom and then go immediately with you over to the church to get seats.  If your student does not have anyone coming as their guest, they are welcome to sit with me.


Theme: Plants

Authors of the Month: Mercer Mayer and Robert Munsch

Sight Words: his/as

Wonderful Word: brag

Word Family: -ake (bake, cake, fake, lake, make, rake, shake, take, wake)

Letter: ck

Poem: My Garden

Math: -2D/3D shapes (faces, corners, sides)
          - creating 3D shapes
          - measurement

Religion: The Good Samaritan

Reading: Sounding out words with a magic e

Science: -living vs nonliving
              - describe and compare living plants in terms of growth, parts, shape, size, color, and texture
              - observe and draw physical features of plants and animals

Writing: narrative writing and fiction writing