Weekly Update

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Posted by jstutz1 | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on May 20, 2018

May 14 – May 18

Popcorn Words:  today, play, away, up.

Math:  We are continuing to work on our last unit in Math.  The Kinder have been working hard at drawing number sentences, making groups of 10 and some ones, and adding and subtracting numbers.

Science:  We have learned so much during our living and non-living studies.  The Kinders have been able to identify that all living things need food, water, air, home and space to grow.  We have been trying to be patient as our plants have been attempting to grow!!  Each kinder planted a couple of bean seeds and we have been waiting so patiently for them to grow.  Ashton’s plant took off fast and has grown a lot!  A few more have started to grow slowly.  We are trying to remain hopeful and are still watching and waiting patiently for our other plants to grow!!    It has been so fun to be able to learn about living things while also watching our butterflies grow and change as well.  We set our beautiful butterflies free this week.  It was so fun to watch them grow from caterpillars to beautiful butterflies!!

Readers Workshop:  The Kinders have come so far with their reading skills!  From noticing characters in books to discovering different reading genres it has been so fun to see them grow!!  During our last month of school we are focusing on our reading stamina.  How long can we read the books in our blue book boxes?  We have reached a total of 21 minutes of reading stamina time!!  WOW!!!  I am so proud of these kiddos!!  That’s a long time to stay in one spot, read books, stay quiet and keep reading!!  We will continue to work on stamina, reading fluency and discovering all types of reading genres over the last few weeks of school.  We LOVED reading with flashlights on Friday!!  Thank you Mrs. Carter for sending in some extras!!  With my extras we had everybody covered during our flashlight reading times throughout the day!  It was a lot of fun!!

Writers Workshop:  We have been continuing to build our opinions on different topics this week.  The kinders explored their own opinions on what their favorite sport is.  I LOVED how so many of them picked another sport other than what was given for examples.  Making the point that there are so many choices out there and they definitely have opinions on what they like or don’t like!!  They REALLY loved our opinion writing days on the series of books written by Sandra Markle.  We dove into our opinions on topics like What If You Had Animal Eyes, What If You Had Animal Ears, What If I had an Animal Nose?  The Kinders did such a great job giving their reasons why they would pick a specific animals ears, nose or eyes.  Then giving a star statement in the end to their readers.  We will wrap up our Opinion writing next week by taking our “on demand” writing.  The Kinders will be writing their own opinions by giving two reasons why they have the opinion they do.  Drawing examples and writing sentences.

5th Grade Buddies:  We gave our buddies a “sweet” send off to camp this week.  Our Kinders decorated cards for their buddies and gave them a pack of starburst wishing them star”bursts” of fun at their 5th grade camp.  Thank you to our 4th grade buddies from Mrs. Huizenga’s class who helped get us to our buses on Thursday and Friday while our buddies were away.

Take Home Books:  This week is our LAST WEEK of our Take Home Book program.  Thank you so much to all of our parents and volunteers!!  I could not have done this amazing program without you all!!  Please be sure to return all of your take home books by Friday, May 25.  

Mystery Reader:  Ashton was THRILLED to see his Mom walk through our door as our Mystery Reader Friday!  Mrs. Carter read us the funny book What the Dinosaurs Did at School by Refe Tuma and Susan Tuma.  The Kinders got a kick out of those silly dinosaurs and all the problems they created at school!  She also brought us a yummy treat for Ashton’s summer b-day celebration!  Thanks so much for visiting with us Mrs. Carter!!

Kindergarten Olympics:  Please be sure to email me at jstutz1@hpseagles.net if you would like to volunteer for our June 1 Kindergarten Olympics!!

Upcoming Dates:

  • Monday, May 21…MUSIC, Take Home Books, Celebrate Aubrey’s summer b-day.
  • Tuesday, May 22…ART, Take Home Books.
  • Wednesday, May 23…STEAM, LAST LIBRARY DAY…Bring ALL library books!
  • Thursday, May 24…GYM
  • Friday, May 25…MUSIC, Take Home Books, Wear Red, White and Blue!  Return ALL TAKE HOME BOOKS!!
  • Monday, May 28…NO SCHOOL
  • Tuesday, May 29…ART
  • Wednesday, May 30…STEAM, Celebrate Kasey and Kamryn’s summer b-day.
  • Thursday, May 31…GYM, Celebrate Quinn’s summer b-day.
  • Friday, June 1….K OLYMPICS 9:00-12:00.
  • Friday, June 8…Last Day of School, 12:15 Dismissal.
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