Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
- Tuesday, April 21: Care for Creation, 8am Mass and “waste free lunch”; bring all reusable containers and let’s see if our class can produce the LEAST amount of trash! Classroom with the least amount of trash will win a prize from the student council!
- Thursday, April 23: Dining for Dollars, Corner Bakery in LaGrange, 9am-7pm
- Thursday, April 23: Student council sponsored “$1 dress down day” for the big kids to support MISERICORDIA. Little ones are welcome to participate by bringing in $1. 🙂
- Friday, April 24: 8th grade ribbon ceremony in church
- Sunday, April 26th: Family Mass at 10:30am
- Friday, May 8th: KINDERGARTEN moms, please plan on joining us for the Mother’s Day Tea in our classroom from 10:00-11:15ish, Mother’s Day Tea
Student Council has a couple of additional things happening next week to celebrate EARTH DAY, make EVERY DAY earth day! See the flyers below.
What’s Due:
- Hot lunch orders: Order now!
- Mystery Reader Sign-up: Our mystery reader sign-up is full. If anyone still wants an opportunity before the end of the school year, just reach out and we can get something on the calendar! Remember, one mystery reader per child, please. 🙂
This Week: We had a great week back after our time off for Easter!
Next Week:
Language Arts:
Fundations: We started unit 5 in Fundations. We will continue to review the 5 digraphs:
wh-whistle-/w/
ch-chin-/ch/
sh-ship-/sh/
th-thumb-/th/
ck-sock-/ck/
In addition to practicing words with digraphs (reading and writing), we will continue work on:
- Sentence dictation: writing sentences and remembering TO– 1.) Start with a capital letter, 2.) finger spaces in between words, 3.) correct spelling of word wall/high frequency words, 4.) independent sounding out of all other words.
- Understanding fiction vs nonfiction text.
- High frequency/word wall word: I will introduce WAS and OF next week.
- Narrative story form: character, setting, events/beginning, middle and end.
- Read alouds: We started an Eric Carle author study unit this week and will wrap that up next week!
- Pocket chart: We will have a new poem in our pocket chart called, “Fuzzy, fuzzy caterpillar”
- Reading group: We will return to reading group folders next week. Please continue to practice on the weekends and send back on Tuesday!
- Daily journaling continues!
Next week, we will wrap up our current math unit which is all about:
- Analyzing and comparing 3D shapes-sphere, cylinder, cube cone
- Describing the positions of objects–above, below, next to, in front of, behind, left, right
- Analyzing and comparing 2D shapes-circle, square, triangle, rectangle, hexagon and rhombus (trying to remember the math term RHOMBUS instead of “diamond”)
We will then move on to our FINAL kindergarten math workbook. Hard to believe! In addition to the above math skills, we will continue to practice:
- Counting to 100. We are now counting by 1s to 100! At home, please practice counting to 100 (or beyond)! The goal by the end of kindergarten is to count to 100 (or beyond)!
- Addition and subtraction: we are working on writing and solving addition equations within within 10. Students need to be able to identify +, -, = (plus sign, minus sign and equal to) and label equations as either “addition” or “subtraction.”
- Counting by 10s: We will continue to practice skip counting by 10s to 100. Practice at home!
- Counting by 5s: We will continue to practice skip counting by 5s. Practice at home!
- Counting by 2s: We will continue to practice counting 2s to 20. Practice at home!
- Telling time to the hour: recognizing time to the hour on an analog and digital clock.
Religion/science:
- New life: We see signs of NEW life all around us! Each day we look for signs of spring–leaf buds opening, tulips and daffodils growing, birds chirping, roly polies crawling, etc. etc. Signs of spring are EVERYWHERE and we LOVE it!
- Caterpillars: caterpillars have arrived in our classroom! We will be observing the caterpillars over the next month and will document what we observe, just like scientists!
- Next week we will celebrate Earth day and will learn about the different ways to take care of God’s creation.