Thank you so much for coming to our Kindergarten Museum on Tuesday. It was an exciting day for the students who got to show off a lot of the hard work they have completed over the past month or so. They have much to be proud of!
The students finished their individual innovations called One, Two, Three, Four. These went home today in their folders. I would encourage your children to read them as often as possible and be sure to point to the words as they read! It is a wonderful way to reinforce their sight words in context. The students did a great job thinking of different adjectives to describe the animals in their books.
I would encourage you and your child to work a lot on their sight words and math fluency facts over vacation. May is a big assessment month for us and I will be checking students on both of these skills during the next few weeks. I would also encourage you to read, read, read as much as possible!
We will be starting our nature unit when we return from our spring break and will be learning about life cycles, trees, seeds, and eventually insects. We will also be making observations about the signs of spring we see outside. We will be taking pictures of different places around the school over a 4-6 week period and comparing the pictures every week to see how nature changes. It may be a fun project for you to do at home too! I would love to see the pictures when you are done if you do decide to do it! We actually went for our first nature walk today and took some pictures that we will add to over the next several weeks.
We have been working with shapes in math. We even went on a shape hunt inside and outside of the school and talked about the shapes that are all around us. We also started talking about how we can describe the position and location of shapes and other objects. We made a pretend minivan today and used position words to describe where everyone was sitting. Then we “traveled” to the beach, Mrs. Sullivan’s house, and to the movie theatre! It was fun to see the students using their imaginations while also using great math vocabulary!
Another exciting part of today was that the students earned some game time as part of the whole-school SOARS incentive. Students could pick between games in the library or games in the gym. They had a blast! It was a fun way to end a busy and exciting week!
We also managed to squeeze in a little time to paint this morning. The students painted forsythia branches that have certainly brightened our classroom and made it feel more like spring!
I hope you have a fantastic, fun-filled, and relaxing week of vacation. I look forward to hearing all the students' stories when they return!
Have a great week!
Melanie Duncan
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