Newsletter Information

Reminders/Tips

* April 30^th – 2 hours late

* May 14^th – 2 hours late

* May 22^nd  – Kindergarten Picnic- more info coming!

* May 23^rd – Last Day of School – 11:00 dismissal!!

* Start working on telling time to the half hour.

* Practice writing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

 

Math

We have been very busy in our math.  We spent the last week working on counting by 10’s to 100, 5’s to 100, and 2’s to 10.  We got the 10’s and are making progress on the 5’s and 2’s.  We will also start working on money.  We first have to recognize the penny, nickel, and dime.  Then we will learn their amounts!

Reading/Writing

We have been really pushing through our book club books.  We are very close to getting re-tested to see if we are able to reach our final level of the year.  Please continue to read at home as this will help when I do begin to test for their final level.  In writing we have spent some time working on adding our own voice to the things we write!  We have talked about words that will allow a reader to know how we feel.

Newsletter Information

Reminders

·      April 16 – 2 hours late

·      April 30 – 2 hours late

·      May 14 – 2 hours late

·      May 23 – Last Day of School!!

Tips

·      Continue to work on recognizing and counting penny, nickel, and dimes.

·      Start talking about place value the tens and ones.

·      Continue adding and subtracting!

Reading

We have really been working on a variety of comprehension strategies in our classroom.  We are working on Metacognition, Schema, making a picture in your mind, determining importance, questioning, and inferring.  All of these take a lot of time and require your child to think about what they are reading in their book club books.  Please ask them to tell you what each of these mean!

Math

We started our new math chapter on numbers to 100 this week.  It has been a lot of fun to work with larger numbers and see how far we can count and write.  Everyone has worked very hard on all of their math.  Please keep working on writing and counting to 100!

Science/SS/Health

In Science we are continuing to work on their wood unit but have moved to the paper side of it.  The kids love testing out the different papers!  In SS we have been discussing map keys and how to use them.  We also spent a little bit of our time discussing how to help others.