Dear Parents,
I hope you are all enjoying this long
weekend. With only 9 days to go in kindergarten, this post will mostly
just remind you of upcoming special events!
There is
no sharing this week and in class, we will continue our science unit on
animals. The children have really enjoyed observing fish, guppies, red worms, and night crawlers so far. Our butterflies mostly hatched last Friday, so we let them go over the weekend. This week,
we will also wrap up our social studies units. We will also do a few pieces of writing for our memory books.
Our last
Wednesday envelope will go home this week. Please review the papers,
and then keep the envelope-- no need to send it back again. On Friday, we will have our final SPARK P.E.
We
have our water play day/class party coming up on Tuesday the 4th.
We will have a pizza lunch and some fun in the sun! Please send your children with a towel, a swimsuit under their clothes
(or boys just wear their swimsuits as shorts) water shoes or flip flops
or old shoes you don't mind having them get wet. We don't like them to
go barefoot on the blacktop, so we need them to be wearing shoes that
will work with the water. Please coat them in sunblock before their
arrival, as sun block is most effective if applied about a half hour
before the activity. Children who are going to daycare after class
should have a change of clothes.
Wednesday the 5th, we
do have a school-wide Olympic Day. So that the children can
participate, the afternoon class will have another Wacky Wednesday that day. I could use a few parent helpers to walk around with us.
Also, I know they are in need of parent helpers to run the various
stations. Please let me know if you can help.
The afternoon class also has a Wacky Wednesday this week. Class runs from 10:00 to 1:20. Thank you.
Our
last big event together is next Thursday the 6th for our Promotion Day
celebration. This should wrap up before class is out, and then the kids
can stay and sign yearbooks, etc. If you want them to leave early that
day, please sign them out in the office. Please plan on joining us as
we have a small presentation and will look back on our wonderful year
together!
There are no events on Friday the 7th, but
all kindergarten classes attend from 8:05 to 11:25. Both the morning
class and the afternoon class will be in the room together, cleaning up,
signing yearbooks, and wrapping up our year together.
In
our final weeks, there will be a few opportunities to watch movies
(class party, after Olympic Day, etc.) If your child has any Rated G
movies that s/he would like to bring in to share, I'd appreciate it. We
do not have a Blue-Ray player, just a DVD player (and VHS if anyone still has those lying around!) Please clearly mark
the movies with your child's name.
Upcoming Events:
5/29: May's Wacky Wednesday
6/4: Water Play Day & Class Party
6/5: June's Wacky Wednesday/Alta Vista Olympic Day
6/6: Kindergarten Promotion Ceremony
6/7: Last day of school: Class runs from 8:05-11:25 for ALL KINDERGARTNERS
