MHE Kindergarten
Resources for Summer Vacation
Over the summer, this site will still be available for you and your child to use! We will NOT be uploading new content, but you can still use the archived lessons for each content area.
You will also be receiving a packet of summer workbooks during our Kindergarten DriveThru pickup on Thursday, June 18 at 4:00pm-5:30pm.
You can also use some of the blue links to maintain your child's learning over the summer!
Kindergarten Message (June 15, 2020 - June 19, 2020) click here -->
Hello Kindergartners/ almost 1st graders!
We hope you had a week full of adventures while learning about sea life last week!
As we wrap up our year together in Kindergarten we want to praise you for your growth mindset and perseverance the last few months of virtual learning!
As this is the last week of school, it will be filled with end-of-year Kindergarten reflections and celebrations! Let's think about the good times, hard times, times of perseverance, and how you have grown on the inside and outside during Kindergarten! Let's celebrate!
We are thinking about you all and have enjoyed every minute of our time together in the classroom and virtually. Have a great summer in the sun with your family! We hope you have more adventure-filled days. Stay kind.
Love, MHE Kindergarten Team
Click here for this week's Weekly Overview
We love our Kindergartners and Seahurst Park!
Click on the video to take a virtual field trip with us!
720p.movAbout Our Kindergarten Site
Many parents are having to work right now while having in- home learning with their children at different grade-levels.
This can be stressful! We don't want you to feel pressure to get all of this done. Use what you like and leave the rest! Stay healthy and take care of one another.
-MHE Kindergarten Team
- Every week we will have a Kindergarten Message to introduce the theme of the week. Click on the Kindergarten Message below.
- At the top of the page, there will be additional pages in drop down form that allow you to navigate through each subject. Click on the subject you want to work on. There will be weekly tasks around that subject.
- Click on the current week to read the assignment for that specific subject.
- There are additional resources within each subject pages for you to use as you need.
- You can also click below to direct you to view all the assignments for this week.
Susan DuFresne
susan.dufresne@rentonschools.us
Heidi Goins
Greg Golliver
Esther Lee
April Marino
Olivia Murphy
Kindergarten Message Archives below:
Kindergarten Message (June 8, 2020 - June 12, 2020) click here -->
This is one of our favorite weeks of kindergarten: the week we would normally go on a field trip!
If we were still at school together, we would be spending the week getting ready to go on a fun adventure. We would be learning all about the ocean habitat of Puget Sound, and about the many creatures we might discover while visiting the tidepools at Seahurst Park in Burien.
We are feeling a little bit sad that we can’t actually take a school bus ride and go exploring together, but we’ve decided to take you on a VIRTUAL field trip!
All week, we’ll learn about the amazing animals that live in the sea through lots of fun videos and books. We hope you enjoy our trip, and that you’ll write an All-About book full of the facts you learn. As always, we would love to see what you write! We think you’ll love being a tidepool expert.
-MHE Kindergarten Team
Click here for this week's overview: Weekly Overview
Kindergarten Message (June 1, 2020 - June 5, 2020) click here -->
This week our theme is Engineering Design. Each of you will become a Scientist for the week, do experiments, and create something of your own design. So stop reading, watch this video clip, get active, and try to guess what you will be designing this week.
Click here: Zumba Kids- I like to move it 2 minutes
Did you watch the video? If not go back and watch it before you continue.
OK now, did you guess what your assignment is this week? That's right, this week you will design and build something that moves.
This week you’re a Design Engineer - you'll develop your ideas by doing experiments, reading, and writing, then you'll create a toy that will move.
This week we suggest that you put your work in a different order:
Do the science experiment.
Read about motion.
Then write a "How to Book" about the toy you plan to build.
Remember designers learn as they go so don't be afraid to add to, or change your ideas along the way.
For the final day of the week we hope you will take a picture of the toy you created or make a short (less than 1 minute) video of it in action and send it to your teacher to share with the class.
*Social/ Emotional lessons will not happen every day, but we encourage you to do Second Step lesson #16 -Managing Anger (found under the Social/Emotional tab) at some point in the week.
MHE Kindergarten Team
Click here to see a compilation of this week's activities: Weekly Overview
Kindergarten Message (May 25, 2020 - May 29, 2020) click here -->
This week begins with a holiday on Monday—Memorial Day! We have included a story to read about Memorial Day, but we hope you will enjoy the day off with your family.
Many people say that Memorial Day weekend officially marks the beginning of summer. We can’t believe it! We are still going strong with our learning, and we are so proud of all of you for continuing to do your best even when we aren’t together at school. We miss you and love you!
As the weather gets warmer, there are more and more critters outside! Have you seen bugs? Some people think they’re creepy and some think they are cool—but whatever you think, they are all very interesting! We hope you enjoy some fun learning about insects this week, and we hope you’ll share what you learn with us—we love hearing from you and seeing what you are up to!
-MHE Kindergarten Team
Click here to see a compilation of this week's activities: Weekly Overview
Kindergarten Message (May 18, 2020 - May 22, 2020) click here -->
Hello Families,
This week your student will learn about gardening. For some, gardening is a hobby, and for others it is a means for growing their own produce. We hope you find these lessons interesting, engaging, and inspired to get outside and plant something with your student.
A gardener gardens his/her garden. What will you grow? Share with us your gardening adventure(s).
*Science and Social/ Emotional lessons will not happen every day, but we encourage you to do Second Step lessons 14 and 15 (found under the Social/Emotional tab) at some point in the week and enjoy extra science videos about frogs available under the science tab.
-Kindergarten Team
Click here to see a compilation of this week's activities: Weekly Overview
Kindergarten Message (May 11, 2020 - May 15, 2020) click here -->
Dear MHE Kindergarten Families,
Last week you learned the importance of hard work, kindness and sharing with help from The Little Red Hen.
Where do hens live? You guessed it! They live on a farm.
This week we will learn about the job of a farmer, and explore more animals that live on a farm.
As always, we are here to support you. Keep up the good work students and families!
Love,
MHE Kindergarten Team
P.S. Click HERE if you need some ideas for Mother's Day cards and crafts to make at home this weekend.
Kindergarten Message (May 4, 2020- May 8, 2020) click here -->
Hi families!
We hope you are all still well and hanging in there. You all are rocking it!
This week, we will be reading/watching/listening to different versions of the Little Red Hen. It is a story all about hard-work, kindness, and sharing. Perfect for this season in our lives!
We hope you have fun learning about the different parts of the story and making thoughtful connections.
-MHE Kindergarten Team
Kindergarten Message (April 27, 2020 - May 1, 2020) click here -->
Dear Maplewood Heights' Kindergartners,
Have you been hearing lots of frog songs in the evenings? That is a sound of spring! This week, we’re going to become frog experts as we read, write, and count with frogs. We hope that you have fun exploring this week’s theme, and that you will share with us just how your frog facts came to life in your home!
We miss you and are so proud of the work you are doing to keep learning at home!
*Science and Social/Emotional lessons will not happen every day, but we encourage you to do Second Step lessons 12 and 13 (found under the Social/Emotional tab) at some point in the week and enjoy extra science videos about frogs available under the science tab.
*We will provide Science lessons for one week and Ethnic Studies lessons the next week. These will alternate weekly until school ends in June.
-Kindergarten Team
Kindergarten Message (April 20, 2020- April 24, 2020) click here -->
This week’s theme is Imagine That!
For lessons this week we want each student to really crank up their imagination! They can be as practical or as wild as they like when bringing life to each lesson. We hope that you have fun exploring this week’s theme and hope that you will share with us just how Imagine That! came to life in your home.
*Science and Social Emotional lessons will not happen every day – check the pull downs for specific days. Our Ethnic Studies and Additional Resources tabs are available for you to use to extend your family’s learning if you so choose.
-Kindergarten Team
Kindergarten Message (April 13, 2020 - April 17, 2020) click here -->
We hope that you are well and staying healthy during this unique time.Spring is here! Something we love about this season is the feeling of a "longer day." It's the time when the sun rises earlier in the morning, and sets later in the day. This week's theme will focus on the sun!As a reminder, these are optional assignments and resources that will not be collected or graded. Each week we will present a new theme that we hope you find exciting and that helps you learn something new!
We hope you enjoy learning all about the sun this week! Please note - we are here to support you, not to pressure you. Your family's health and well-being are our top priority. If you have time, we would love to see your All About the Sun books and/or your drawings of the sun! You can share these by sending your teacher pictures via email if you choose.