Weekly Update

0

Posted by jstutz1 | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on May 13, 2017

May 8 – 12

Happy Mother’s Day:  The Kindergartners worked so hard on their gifts for Mom!!  They took such special care about just how they wanted their gifts to look.  Choosing just the right colors and words.  We hope you enjoy your special gift!!  Wishing you all a VERY HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!!  Thank you so much for sharing your treasure with me!!  

Popcorn Words:  my, by, one.

Math:  We are continuing to work on Unit 5 in Math.  This week we practiced our Math objectives during Math Games.  We played games like link up teen numbers, greater than and less than and missing partners. We are almost finished with Unit 5, we will take our test soon.

Writers Workshop:  We have worked on knowing what an opinion is and how we all have our own. Reading many different Opinion related books and then making our own opinion on different topics.  We have talked about our favorite color, favorite lunch, and favorite recess activity.  It has been so fun to see the Kindergartners explore opinions and embrace each others difference of opinions.

Readers Workshop:  This week we continued celebrating being readers.  Reading our writing to each other, picking our “good fit” books for our books box and taking time to discover non-fiction and fiction books that we enjoy reading.

Science:  We are continuing to discover all about Living and Non-living things.  Reading Non-fiction books and exploring through our surroundings we are becoming so aware.  Many of our plants took off growing and have come home.  Some of our plants are a little slower to grow and are still in our classroom.  Our field trip was a great way to experience Living and and Non-living things.  From our amazing guides at the Hemlock Nature Center in West Olive to our lunch and play time at Hager Park in Jenison.  We got to see a “Grandfather Tree”, a river, tadpoles and even pet a snake (if we wanted).   Thank you all for having your child ready for the day, providing their lunch and helping make our field trip a success!

Thanks so much volunteers for helping us during our field trip!

We loved our time at Hager Park!  Enjoying our lunch and then playing on the wood structure park.  

Ms. Kelsey, one of our AMAZING guides!  She showed us all kinds of living and non-living things!!

Tent worms!!  We could see them eating the plant that they were living on.  

Grandfather Tree!!

Ollie and his Dad enjoying some cuddle time on the bridge.

Using the “attent-o-scopes” to look for living things….we saw a bird eating a worm!!

Ms. Kelsey showing us a snake inside.  

We got to play a game with these paper animals.  Placing them on areas in the woods where they might live!  

Dropping leaves off of the bridge to see which way the river was moving!!

One of our guides “Grandma” greeted us with excitement and got us ready to explore!!

We were ALL SMILES on the bus ready to get our fun field trip day started!!

Mystery Reader:  Olivia was soooo surprised to see her Mom walk through the door to be our Mystery Reader! She leaped up and greeted her with a big hug!  Mrs. Salazar read us two great books, The Pout Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen and Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae.  We LOVED helping Mrs. Salazar read The Pout Pout Fish with the “blub, blub, blub” pattern.   Also, learning that we can do anything if we try, just like Gerald the giraffe!

Kindergarten Olympics:  A volunteer note came home this week asking for help with our Kindergarten Olympics.  Thank you to those who have agreed to help.  I am still in need of more volunteers.  Please let me know by returning the bottom portion of the note as soon as you can.  It is such a fun day!!  All are welcome to come watch and even enjoy lunch with your child on Olympic day!  We do the Kindergarten Olympics on our K/1 playground.  Please email me if you have any questions at jstutz1@hpseagles.net.   

Updates:

  • Monday, May 15…MUSIC, Bring Take Home Book.
  • Tuesday, May 16…ART, LIBRARY, BRING LIBRARY BOOK!  Sam’s B-Day!
  • Wednesday, May 17…STEAM
  • Thursday, May 18…GYM, Bring all Take Home Books….Last Day of Take Home Book Program.
  • Friday, May 19…MUSIC, Mia F.’s Summer B-Day celebration!  Bring a flashlight to read with for the day. Label the flashlight with your child’s name, it will be returned home the same day.  I will have a few extras to share!
  • Monday, May 22…Eliana’s Summer B-Day celebration!
  • Friday, May 26…Wear Red, White and Blue Day!  Carson’s B-Day!!
  • Monday, May 29…NO SCHOOL!  Memorial Day.
  • Thursday, June 1…Cruz’s Summer B-Day celebration!
  • Friday, June 2…Kindergarten Olympics.  
  • Wednesday, June 7…Savannah’s Summer B-Day celebration!
  • Thursday, June 8…Evie’s Summer B-Day celebration!
  • Friday, June 9…LAST DAY OF SCHOOL…Dismissal at 12:15 p.m. 
print
Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Write a comment

Skip to toolbar