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Mrs. Hendershot’s Class

Friday, May 9^th, 2014

Dates:

    May 21^st – Early Out!

    May 26^th – No School

    June 2^nd – Kindergarten Class Picnic

    June 3^rd – Last Day! 11:15 Out!!

Daily 5:

We have been busy reading our last level on these guided reading books.  Then we spent some time retesting to see where we could end our Kindergarten year.  We also have been reviewing some of our reading strategies to help us continue to grow as readers.  One area we have worked on is to back up and reread when something does not make sense.  This can be tricky but with more and more practice we are getting better at realizing as we read when something sounded funny.  We also spent a little time discussing how we should work to be voracious readers.  This means that we want to read anything and everything.  We like all different types of texts and want to read them to gain knowledge.

Math:

In math we just finished up our numbers to 100 unit.  It can be tricky at times because we spent a lot of our time discussing what numbers make up other numbers.  We really focused on how many tens and how many ones are in numbers.  You should ask your child to tell you.  They are pretty good at this now.  We have currently moved on to discussing time.  We are working on the days, months, and ordering events.  Then we will move to telling time!  We are excited!

Science:

WOW!!!  Our Wood and Paper unit has kept us busy!  We have done experiments on trying to sink different types of wood, sanding wood, and even making our own sawdust wood.  We have had a lot of fun with all these hands on experiments plus a lot of learning is taking place.  Ask your child to explain to you what we have been up to in Science!

Helpful Hints:

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

·      Practice telling time to the hour and half hour.

·      Continue adding and subtracting!