We are heading into the final stretch here with many year-end events, so keep your calendars updated! The most important event this week is Open House, which is on Wednesday, May 25th. It starts at 6:30 in the cafeteria with a Home & School Club meeting. Classrooms are open between 7:00 & 8:00. Please bring your entire family to come into the classroom, letting your student be your guide. The kids will be showing off many projects we have been working on, and they are very excited to share all of it with you!
The sharing this week is book share. Bring in any book your child wants to share to get us excited about summer reading options. Children should be prepared to tell the title of the book and a little bit about what it's about. Also, a favorite page should be bookmarked to share.
In class, we will continue our science unit on animals. The children have really enjoyed observing worms and snails so far. We are hoping to get some pill bugs and sow bugs in our classroom this week. Our caterpillars all went into chrysalises on Friday. We continue to do a lot of writing, and this week, we'll do a few pieces of writing for our memory books. We are also continuing our review of math concepts. Right now, we are really hitting on addition and subtraction concepts. Addition & subtraction facts up to 5 (5-3, 4+1, 5-4, etc.) should be very innate at this point and should not require fingers or manipulatives.
"Virtual homework" starts this week as the blue bag program is done. Please take about 15-20 minutes a day to have your child do either Lexia, ixl.com, or raz-kids. If you are not sure how to log into these sites, please email me.
Next week, on Thursday the 2nd, please come to the cafeteria in the evening (exact time will be posted soon!) to enjoy the Art Vista Art show. Every child in our class will have several pieces on display. The Art Vista art show is always a sight to behold-- such beautiful artwork from all the grade levels! It is truly impressive.
We have our water play day/class party coming up on Friday the 3rd. 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. Children who are going to daycare after class should have a change of clothes and shoes.
Wednesday the 8th, we do have a school-wide Olympic Day. It starts at 10:00, and I could use a few parent helpers to walk around with us & help organize the kids.
Our last big event together is Tuesday the 7th for our Promotion Day celebration. This event is at 9:00. Please plan on joining us as we have a small presentation and will look back on our wonderful year together! 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. We are trying to keep this event to immediate family (parents) only due to space limitations, as it is in our classroom. Also, school-aged siblings are not to be pulled out of class to attend. Thank you for your understanding.
There are no events on Thursday the 9th, 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. I will be there briefly on the 9th, but my daughter is graduating from Alta Vista, and my son is graduating from Union MS that day, so I will be a busy mom attending ceremonies and Mrs. Beadle will come and be with the class at around 9:00.
Please send in your child's blue bag Monday for the final time! Thank you for doing such a great job throughout the year with returning the bags on time. I never had to substitute one book! They were always all in when I rotated the books :) Thank you!
This Week's Helpers & Activities:
Monday: Return Blue Bags (Jillian), Sharing
Tuesday: Sharing, Recess 101 with Coach Drew
Wednesday: Computers (Johanna), Sharing, Wacky Wednesday & Open House
Thursday: Sharing
Friday: Story Time with Grandma Gail, Sharing
Upcoming Events:
5/25: Open House @ 7:00
5/30: Memorial Day
6/2: Art Vista Art Show @ 5:30-8:00
6/3: End of the year Party & Water Play Day
6/7: Kindergarten Promotion Ceremony @ 9:00
6/8: School-wide Olympic Day
6/9: Last Day of School: All Kindergartners come from 8:05-11:25
