This Week in Kindergarten…
Popcorn Words: by, my, one
Reading: In reading this week, we learned more about characters. We focused on finding out who the strong characters were in our books. We read some Little Critter books and Mercy Watson. We have been enjoying Mercy Watson books during our read aloud time. This week we talked about Mercy as a character and the other fun characters in the Mercy Watson books. We have read 3 chapter books and look forward to starting a new one next week! It is one of the Kinder’s favorite times of the day! Ask your Kinder who Mercy is and what Mercy likes to eat!
Writing: In writing this week we practiced writing our opinions. I hope you’ve had fun reading their opinion writing that has come home! They got to choose and write their opinions about… If they liked hot lunch or home lunch…Going to the beach or the pool…Which season do they like best, winter or summer. They are doing a great job deciding on their opinion (even when they really like both), coming up with reasons to support what they choose and writing a closing.
Math: In math this week we practiced partners of ten using pennies. We had a fun little rhyming song we sang to help us learn the partners of ten. We practiced doing addition and subtraction like big kids (where we challenged ourselves to see how many we could do in a minute). We also continued learning more about partners of different numbers and practicing our tiny tumblers. I am so proud of all the hard work they do in math!
Science: We had fun on our fast Friday learning about Living and Nonliving things. I was so impressed with what they knew! We colored and read a book all about living and nonliving things. We also chose an animal and talked about where it lives (its home), the air it breathes, the food it eats and the water it drinks. We have enjoyed watching our living caterpillars change into beautiful butterflies right in front of our eyes! We are patiently waiting for our plants to start growing!
Outstanding: This week Kenzie was awarded with an OUTSTANDING from Mrs. Reagan! Kenzie does a great job of reminding us to BE NICE, WORK HARD, LEARN WELL! We are proud of you!
Science Lesson with our 5th grade friend Ivy…
Celebrating reading with our stuffed animals…
Upcoming Dates:
Sunday, May 13: Happy Mother’s Day to all of you wonderful moms!! Enjoy your day!!
Monday, May 14: PE; Take home books
Tuesday, May 15: Music; Library
Wednesday, May 16: Art; Homework due; Take home books
Thursday, May 17: STEAM
Friday, May 18: PE; Take home books; Celebrate being readers…read with a flashlight! Bring a flashlight from home to read with at school.
Friday, May 25: Wear red, white and blue!
Friday, June 1: Kindergarten Olympics: A note asking for parent volunteers came home. Volunteers will be notified shortly with details. This special day would not be possible without your help. Thank you so much! If you still would like to be part of this fun day, please let me know.
Friday, June 8: Last day of school: Dismissal is at 1:00.