Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
- Tuesday, May 19th: 8am Mass
- Tuesday, May 19th: Dining for Dollars at the Wendy’s in Countryside, 4-8pm
- Thursday, May 21: Field trip to the La Grange Library; your child does NOT need a snack today. Regular lunch.
- Friday, May 22: 2pm dismissal, no aftercare
Looking Ahead:
- Tuesday, May 26th: Kindergarten and 8th grade picnic. Click PICNIC LETTER 2026 for more info.
- Wednesday, June 3: 9am in the PC gym. All are welcome to attend. Invite will go home next week!
What’s Due:
- Hot lunch orders: Order now!
- Mystery Reader Sign-up: LAST CALL! If anyone else wants a chance to read to the class, send me an email and I’ll fit you in! One mystery reader per child, please! 🙂
This Week:
We finished the iReady reading diagnostic. We had 6 butterflies emerge from their chrysalises. We started end of the year assessments!
Next Week:
Kindergarten celebration: We will be busy practicing the songs and moves that we’ll share with you at our Kindergarten Celebration on Wednesday, June 3rd!
iReady: Next week, we’ll finish the math diagnostic. This is the assessment we take 3x a year, with this being the final one. You’ll receive these results with your child’s final report card. Please remember that this is just one measure of what your child knows and can do. It is a digital assessment, so it may not always accurately capture the skills and growth of our youngest learners. Report card grades are based on my own classroom assessments and observations, not on i-Ready results.
Field trip: We will attend our 2nd and final field trip on Thursday to the La Grange library. Chaperones are: Knudsen, Gonzalez, Head and Dillon. Students should come to school with a regular lunch, but they do NOT need to bring a snack. We will provide a special snack at the library. We will return to school by about 11:30 for lunch.
Language Arts:
Fundations: We will continue to focus on the following 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 our final 2 word wall words: THIS, THEY
- Narrative story form: character, setting, events/beginning, middle and end.
- Read alouds: Our read alouds will be all about the summer and books that show characters being proud of learning something new.
- Pocket chart: We will continue to practice our final pocket chart song, one that we will share with you at the kindergarten celebration!
- Reading group: we continue to work in our fluency packets and with our decodable readers, practicing all those Fundations skills!
- Daily journaling continues! In addition to our writing journals, we are also wrapping up the year with our “opinion journals.” The children have a chance to share their opinions about certain things and have to support their opinions by writing a sentence with the word “because.” For example, to answer which is better, cake or ice cream, some students wrote, “I like ice cream because I do not like frosting,” or “I like ice cream because there are more flavors.” Young ones have lots of opinions and now they’re learning how to put those thoughts into written sentences.
We didn’t complete as much work in our math workbooks due to the iready assessments, so next week, we’ll get to that as we explore MEASUREMENT and WEIGHT.
- Representing numbers to 20 with a written numeral
- Measurement: length and height (compare and describe)
- Weight: describing attributes of weight and comparing and describing weights.
In addition to the above math skills, we will continue to practice:
- Counting to 100. At home, please practice counting 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.
- Money: Naming penny, nickel, dime and quarter, giving the value of each and recognizing some of the symbols on each coin.
Religion/science:
- We will continue to observe our bean and popcorn seeds growing in dirt.
- We will continue to honor Mary in the month of May by praying the Hail Mary daily. We will be reviewing the other prayers we learned this year. Feel free to let your child bring in a flower for our May altar for Mary.
- We will be learning some new religion songs which we will share with you at the celebration.