The Start of a New School Year!!

We are at the start of a new school year today!  Tonight will be our Open House from 4 to 7!  Please stop by and check out our room and bring your supplies while you come!  I am very excited to meet all the new students in my room!  Please check back as the days continue for new pictures and posts!  Let's have a great school year!!

Math Daily

We have been working on money, adding, and subtracting during our math time this last month of school!  We love going to a math daily after we have finished our math work to help reinforce these skills!  Hope you enjoyed checking out what we have been up too!

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Dates:

May 14^th – Late Start

May 15^th- IMC closes!  Return books!

May 22^nd  - Kindergarten Picnic – more details will be coming!

May 23^rd – 11:00 Dismissal and Last day of Kindergarten!!

Tips:

·      Work on counting pennies, nickels, and dimes.

·      Work on telling time to the half hour.

·      Have your child write you a story using at least five sentences.

Reading:

We have spent a lot of time working on our Reader’s Theatre and ABC’s of Kindergarten.  It has been a lot of fun to see how they have grown through the year.  We hope you enjoyed our Kindergarten Reading Celebration!  Now we are working hard on our book club books.  We were all just re-tested and trying out our new levels before summer.  Please keep reading over summer!

Math:

We spent the last 2 weeks working very hard on money.  This can be very tough but we are beginning to really understand it. We are now moving on to addition and subtraction like they will see in 1^st grade!  They are very excited to experience this new adventure!  Keep it up!

Science/SS

In Science they are discussing living and non-living things.  They are very excited because this will lead into an animal report!  In SS we just finished up our unit on People, Places, and Events.  We are now focusing our last unit on People and the Government.  We are excited to learn about all of this!

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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.

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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.

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Reminders/Tips

·      March 30^th – No School

·      April 2^nd – late start

·      April 3^rd – Concert- HS AUD 6:30

·      April 5^th – No School K students only- Round Up

·      April 6^th and 9^th – No School

·      We are going to start money soon!  Please work on the penny, nickel, and dime.  Amounts and recognition!

·      Continue having your child read a book to you each night.

Writing

You should see us write!  We have been working very hard on writing good sentences.  The students are working on remembering a capital letter and periods at the end of their sentences.  Also we have spent a lot of time lately working on writing more than the basic “I like” sentences.  Have your child show you their writing skills at home!

Math

We have been very busy finishing up our subtraction work and beginning our work with numbers.  Subtraction has been harder than they thought and need to be reminded that the first number tells how many; the 2^nd number tells how many to take away, and finally the last number tells how many are left.  Keep working on this at home.  In our new unit on numbers we are working on skip counting by 10’s to 100, beginning some counting by 2’s and 5’s also.  This can be harder so we are taking extra time to make sure we understand this concept!

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Reminders

·      March 12 – 16 – No School

·      March 19^th – 2 Hour Late Start

·      March 23^rd – Play at GBPAC

·      March 27^th & 29^th – P-T Conference

·      March 27^th & 29^th – 2:00 Out

·      March 30^th – No School

·      April 2^nd – 2 Hour Late Start

·      April 3^rd – Concert HS AUD

Tips

·      Continue working on basic addition and subtraction problems.

·      Begin skip counting by 5’s to 100.

·      Practice writing sentences using capitals and periods.

Science/SS

In Science the students continue to work on their Paper and Wood unit doing many experiments.  They love having time to actually try different things out with wood and paper.  In Social Studies we have been discussing needs and wants along with money and work.  All of these go hand in hand.  The students really have a nice understanding of these concepts.  Ask them about it!

Math

We finished up our Chapter 9 on beginning addition and now moved on to actual addition steps. This can be very tricky for some to understand.  We hope by taking our time your child will understand the concept.  Please continue to make time to practice this at home as it shows in our classroom!

Reading

Many of us moved to a new level in our book clubs so we are enjoying reading harder books.  If you did not move to a new level they are continuing their hard work at their level.  We are really working on the strategies of sounding out, looking at the beginning sound, and chunking the word to figure it out!