Weekly Update 5/2

 Upcoming Q4: 

May 14th: Yearbook Signing at Main Event 1:30-3:30

May 16th: Treat Friday, Birthday Book Club, Spirit Day

May 20,21,22  - Early release at 12:30

May 21st: Kindergarten promotion 

May 22nd: Last day of Kindergarten!

         **Doors open @ 10:30, ceremony starts @11:00 am, all classes together**

We are asking for Cookie donations for the graduates at the end of our celebration: these will be given upon returning the school graduate gown: https://signup.com/go/ovPCXhF

Spalding:

Continue practicing and reviewing your phonograms, always making sure to change the order of sounds and words. We are doing well using our phonograms to sound out words when we read and when we write. This is a great support as you read and write at home too.

Literature:

We continued and finished Mouse Tales. We also continued to practice summarizing each short chapter in a sentence and writing it together in our journal. For poetry, this week, we reviewed the poem Time to Rise.  We talked about what this poem was about and what the words meant. In Grammar, we listen to a simple sentence said 3 times, and then the students had to try to write it independently. They practiced looking over their sentence to check for a capital, spaces, and punctuation. They are also practicing reading back over what they wrote to make sure it makes sense. 

Math:

We are working through learning about place value and numbers to 100. This week we focused on counting on after a random number. The students are so used to rote counting from 1 or from a 10 so this week we challenged them a little. They were tasked to look at a group of objects and given the number. Next they had to count on to figure out the total number. You can help support your child's learning by saying a random number and asking your child to say the following 5 sequential numbers. It doesn't sound like a hard task, but try it out to see if it is a skill your child needs help in developing.

History:

We revisited our knowledge about tall tales this week. The students understand that a tall tale is an exaggerated story based on true events and recalled some tall tales we read this year (Johnny Appleseed, Casey Jones). They listened to another tall tale about Paul Bunyan. After listening, they were able to identify some components of the story that were based on truth and others that were exaggerated. 

Science:

We took time to discuss the 4 seasons of a year and which months fall in each season. We talked about how the seasons are different and that depending on where you live the seasons can differ quite a bit. We had fun creating trees in each season. We also discussed the colors of a rainbow and learned all rainbows are actually circles but the horizon blocks some of it from our view. We found it interesting that there are even more colors in a rainbow than we thought and some we can't see.