Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
- Tuesday, May 12: 8am Mass
Looking Ahead:
- Tuesday, May 26th: Kindergarten and 8th grade picnic. Click PICNIC LETTER 2026 for more info.
- Wednesday, June 3: The kindergarten celebration: more details to come next week!
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:
Next Week:
Now that the Mother’s Day Tea event has passed, we will start to get ready for our final kindergarten event, THE KINDERGARTEN CELEBRATION! We’ll start learning some new songs next week!
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 COME and SOME next week.
- Narrative story form: character, setting, events/beginning, middle and end.
- Read alouds: Our read alouds will be all about the summer and being proud of learning something new.
- Pocket chart: Our final song will be in the pocket chart starting next week! Students will illustrate their final kindergarten poetry journal song.
- Reading group: Please continue to practice on the weekends and send back on Tuesday! NO folders this weekend. Look for the folders to be sent home next week.
- Daily journaling continues! The kids are getting so excited about filling up a WHOLE PAGE with words. Kids love to talk about themselves and now they’re learning to love WRITING about themselves!
Next week, we will finish up the the second half of our FINAL math workbook which is 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.
- Money: Naming penny, nickel, dime and quarter, giving the value of each and recognizing some of the symbols on each coin.
Both money and time are explored much more in depth in 1st and 2nd grade. This is just an introduction! Kids always love learning about these two concepts!
Religion/science:
- Caterpillars: By the end of next week, we should have some butterflies in our classroom! We’ll be drawing and writing about our observations.
- We will continue to observe our bean and popcorn seeds growing in dirt.
- May is here! We continue to honor Mary by praying the Hail Mary daily. We will be reviewing the other prayers we learned this year.
- We will be learning some new religion songs which we will share with you at the celebration.