Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
- Monday, May 4: May Crowning Mass, 9:30am
- 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
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: It was an exciting week! Caterpillars in their chyrsalises, learning to tie shoes, mother’s day tea excitement…..lots of fun things still happening in kindergarten!
Next Week: Moms, we are getting SO excited for your arrival! We have so many fun things ready to share with you. Next week we will be doing final preparations for our special guests including baking and probably some cleaning too! 🙂 Please make sure you arrive through the main office doors by 10am. Your child will be waiting in the hallway to escort you in. If you’re going to be late, please be sure to call the office. Your child will be in the hallway by 10am waiting for your arrival! 🙂
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 SAID and ARE next week.
- Narrative story form: character, setting, events/beginning, middle and end.
- Read alouds: We have more books to read about moms and all the different ways they show us love!
- Pocket chart: We will practice one of our Mother’s Day Tea songs in the pocket chart.
- Reading group: Please continue to practice on the weekends and send back on Tuesday!
- Daily journaling continues!
Next week, we will be about halfway through our final kindergarten math workbook, modules 17-20. The first part is focusing on representing numbers to 20. It’s been a good review for students! The second half of the workbook will be all about 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.
Religion/science:
- Caterpillars: We officially have chrysalises! Now, more waiting–about 2 weeks–for our butterflies to emerge! We will continue to make observations in our science journals. We will continue to read nonfiction books about caterpillars and butterflies and will keep track of all that we know with a graphic organizer. New life in the spring time is SO exciting!
- We will continue to observe our bean and popcorn seeds growing in dirt.
- May is here! Each day during the month of MAY we will honor Mother Mary by adding the Hail Mary to our morning prayer. We’ve made an altar for Mary so she is front and center in our classroom. We have vases set up around Mary and the children are welcome to bring in a flower anytime this month to help us honor her. On Monday, we will attend the May Crowning Mass.