It is so hard to believe we only have 2 1/2 weeks left of school. This year has gone by so quickly. As we near the last day, we have a lot of activities that will be happening at school. In the classroom, we will be completing end of year reading and writing activities.
Friday, May 9 is our Field Day.
Monday, May 12 is our trip to the library.
Wednesday, May 14 is our trip to the farm.
Monday, May 19 is our water day.
Have field trip forms and money in by Monday, May 8.
Click on the Helper of the Day on left side of page for helper calendar.
Continue to take check their purple folders each night as things will start to come home for summer.
Summer Book orders are due: Monday, May 5.
All library books due next week by Thursday, May 8.
Also, check our Shutterfly site for new pictures from Earth Day and our Animated Parade.
Have a wonderful few weeks!!!
Mrs. Downing
Friday, May 2, 2014
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Kindergarten Stars...... March 30-April 11
It has been a busy week back after spring break. The weather cooperated a little and we could get outside. We reviewed our daily schedule and what it looks like and sounds like being back at school. It was a smooth transition back to school.
Spring has Sprung was our focus. We read many Spring books, completed a web about words to describe Spring and what you can do in Spring, watched a Scholastic Weekly Reader about Spring, and the wrote and illustrated individual opinion writing pieces on "Spring is best because......."
Their writing is progressing. Encourage writing at home.
Added to our classroom was a full writing center with examples of how to write a card, postcard, friendly letter, poem, recipe, story, or book. The kids are loving this during their "Work on Writing" time. They get to share their finished products to the class during snack time. They are becoming quite the little authors.
In math, we continue to work on partners of 10, teen numbers, story problems, solid shapes, and skip counting.
We learned "wh" and "ng" sounds in Animated Literacy. This coming week we will learn "June's Mule" for long u....! After we have finished Animated Literacy, we will review and have an Animated Character Parade. Be thinking of which character your child will want to be and think of a costume
your child can begin to put together. Example: Actress Annie: princess looking dress and hold a stuffed alligator or abacus
Check your child's reading treasure box for their old animated character sheets to find their favorite and read the story to think of props. Please do not go out and purchase an expensive costume. Just use items you have at home. It's a lot of fun. Will send dates later. For now, you can just get your creative juices flowing!
This week we will continue our Spring focus and begin to learn about nouns and verbs some more.
Reminder: Kindergarten Round-Up is April 10-11 so your Kinder will not have school on those days.
Spring has Sprung was our focus. We read many Spring books, completed a web about words to describe Spring and what you can do in Spring, watched a Scholastic Weekly Reader about Spring, and the wrote and illustrated individual opinion writing pieces on "Spring is best because......."
Their writing is progressing. Encourage writing at home.
Added to our classroom was a full writing center with examples of how to write a card, postcard, friendly letter, poem, recipe, story, or book. The kids are loving this during their "Work on Writing" time. They get to share their finished products to the class during snack time. They are becoming quite the little authors.
In math, we continue to work on partners of 10, teen numbers, story problems, solid shapes, and skip counting.
We learned "wh" and "ng" sounds in Animated Literacy. This coming week we will learn "June's Mule" for long u....! After we have finished Animated Literacy, we will review and have an Animated Character Parade. Be thinking of which character your child will want to be and think of a costume
your child can begin to put together. Example: Actress Annie: princess looking dress and hold a stuffed alligator or abacus
Check your child's reading treasure box for their old animated character sheets to find their favorite and read the story to think of props. Please do not go out and purchase an expensive costume. Just use items you have at home. It's a lot of fun. Will send dates later. For now, you can just get your creative juices flowing!
This week we will continue our Spring focus and begin to learn about nouns and verbs some more.
Reminder: Kindergarten Round-Up is April 10-11 so your Kinder will not have school on those days.
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Kindergarten Stars February 3, 2014
It has been a few busy weeks! We have celebrated Kansas' Birthday and 100 Day!! We have been assessing what "we" know for upcoming progress reports and conferences.
Our Field trip to Lied Center was a success! We saw "We are going on a bear hunt," we got to sit in the 3 row and we even got shot with water guns! It was very interactive and engaging!
We will finish up learning all of Kansas' symbols and facts about each. We celebrated Kansas' bday with a sunflower cake. The children are compiling a Kansas Symbol book.
We will participate in "100 Day" stations such as engineering structures using 110 Legos, blocks, unifix cubes, pennies, pattern blocks, marshmallow and toothpicks, and dominoes.
The kids made Sunflowers and Jayhawks!
This month the children learned about Martin Luther King, Jr. I was so proud of hearing their ideas amd comments about Dr.King and his dream. They reflected by writing their own paper about who his/her hero was in their life.
In math, we will continue to practice addition and subtraction story problems, simple addition and subtraction facts, solid shapes, greater and less than, and counting by 1's, 5's, 10's.
Any practice or help with these concepts and skills would be helpful!
Our Field trip to Lied Center was a success! We saw "We are going on a bear hunt," we got to sit in the 3 row and we even got shot with water guns! It was very interactive and engaging!
We will finish up learning all of Kansas' symbols and facts about each. We celebrated Kansas' bday with a sunflower cake. The children are compiling a Kansas Symbol book.
We will participate in "100 Day" stations such as engineering structures using 110 Legos, blocks, unifix cubes, pennies, pattern blocks, marshmallow and toothpicks, and dominoes.
The kids made Sunflowers and Jayhawks!
This month the children learned about Martin Luther King, Jr. I was so proud of hearing their ideas amd comments about Dr.King and his dream. They reflected by writing their own paper about who his/her hero was in their life.
In math, we will continue to practice addition and subtraction story problems, simple addition and subtraction facts, solid shapes, greater and less than, and counting by 1's, 5's, 10's.
Any practice or help with these concepts and skills would be helpful!
Sunday, January 12, 2014
January 12, 2014
Our first week back was a successful one. It was a great week to introduce "Winter." The kids learned about seasons, how to dress differently in winter in comparison to other seasons, winter activities and how to begin to write a narrative story about a winter experience. All the kids dresses appropriately to go out into the snow. We walked, climbed, and ran in the snow. After playing in the snow, the kiddos got to throw the snow. :) after we came in from our winter experience we enjoyed hot chocolate!
We will continue to practice writing narrative pieces. Any extra writing you could do at home would be so helpful.
In math, we are beginning unit 4... Our focus will be on addition partners and finding missing partners in addition sentences.
Sight Word Practice continues....as well as sounding out short vowel words. Working on short vowel sounds at home would be very beneficial.
We will be continuing our study of winter and then moving on to learning about our great state "Kansas" and all of it's symbols!
Leslie Downing
We will continue to practice writing narrative pieces. Any extra writing you could do at home would be so helpful.
In math, we are beginning unit 4... Our focus will be on addition partners and finding missing partners in addition sentences.
Sight Word Practice continues....as well as sounding out short vowel words. Working on short vowel sounds at home would be very beneficial.
We will be continuing our study of winter and then moving on to learning about our great state "Kansas" and all of it's symbols!
Leslie Downing
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