The week of May 4-7

What a wonderful spring weather weekend!  It was great getting a lot accomplished outside.  I hope you enjoyed it too!

Chicks new home

The chicks made it back to the farm on Friday!  They are already missed by all!  What a fun experience for us and I'm so thankful for the PTO supplying the incubator for each KDG classroom.  Since it is a KDG incubator, it was my last year doing the chicks as I am going to stay in first grade next year.  I loved doing new and different things this year!  However, I will have to move down to the first grade classroom.  So, look for me on the way to 2nd grade next year!

Animal Science/ELA

We completed our unit on Plants and seeds.  We began talking about animals today.  Our main emphasis will be on types of animals, babies and parents, and their habitats.  I would like to end our animal unit with making a shoe box Diorama!  It will be fun creating a habitat for an animal.  Each child needs a shoebox from home.  You can begin bringing them in anytime.  Have your child write their name on the bottom of it please.

Math

Our Math test on 2 D flat shapes is tomorrow.  Chapter 10 will begin on Thursday over 3D shapes.  Whew!  We made it!   It is our last chapter!

Spelling!

Today we practiced our spelling words.  It helped those that missed words know they need to work on them this week!  Stumper words:  two, write

Sight words:  look, two, more, write, go, see

Pattern words:

ar

star

farm

card

or

corn

fork

sport

Our test is this Friday! Only a few days away!  Please work on these.  I told them those that get all 12 correct, will earn a piece of candy!

I'd like to do one more spelling test.  It will be on May 21.  I have always felt like KDG should be able to read and spell color words going in to first grade.  Since we missed 4th quarter, we didn't get that done.  So, the last spelling test will be on the color words:  red, yellow, blue, green, purple, orange, brown, black, white.  I'm also adding four number words that are harder to spell.  three, four, seven, eight.

Thank you so much for your support at home!

Bag of Books and Math Tool Kit Bag

It is time to begin collecting anything from home.  Please send these things back to school.

1.  The math tool kit that was given to your child at the beginning of the year when we were Hybrid.  It would have linking cubes, counters, dice, shapes (I think).  There may be other things, but that's what comes to mind.

2.  The bag of books

Library book check in is May 17.  

Coming up!

Fri. May 14.       Field Day

Fri. May 28.       Last day of first grade!!  It's a half day!