May 8: Family Fun Night and Book Fair 

Join us for Spring Family Fun Night on Wednesday 5/8 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM! Enjoy the affordable Sweet and Savory Delites food truck, cool off with treats from the Ice, Ice, Baby snow cone truck, and get your face painted. Plus, we'll have yard games for everyone to enjoy, and the Liberty Fire Department will be back to spray the kids with water for some refreshing fun!

May 17: Field Day

Studio K will participate in Field Day on the morning of May 17th. Our students will go to LHS from 9:00-11:00 am. Please contact PTA for more information about volunteering and participating in this day. 

May 22: Studio K Environment Performance at EPiC at 9:30 

Studio K will be sharing their learning about helping our environment through song, readers workshop, and animation with Studio K families at EPiC on May 22 from 9:30-10:45. Students will be able to share their expertise of their creature and the steps they took to help them within our EPiC environment. Students can leave with their parents after their performance as this is also a 3-hour early release day. Students will be served lunch at 10:55 if they choose to stay at school and will be dismissed from school between 11:45 and noon.  

May 23-27: No School 

We will have a 3-hour early release on May 22 and have no school on May 23, 24, and 27. We will return to school on May 28 through June 7th. 

May 29: Burr Oak Woods Field Trip

Studio K will be attending Burr Oak Woods on May 29th from around 9:30-1:00. Parents are welcome to join us for this trip. We will send out more information regarding permission slips, lunch, and volunteering.  

 June 7: Early Release and Last Day 

June 7th will be a 3-hour early release and our last day of Studio K. 

We have used our data to divide our kiddos into 3 groups between Mrs. Baum, Mrs. Ellis, and Mrs. Hamann. Each group works at a different level of concrete, pictorial, semi-abstract, and abstract. We are covering the same standards, but just using a different approach based on what the students need. Here are the standards we will be working on for the remainder of the school year. Please reach out if you would like any suggestions on how to support your child in this learning. 

1. Rote counting to 100

2. Adding and subtracting within 10 

3. Decomposing Numbers to 10 (1 and 4, 2 and 3 make 5)

4. Money (identify a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter) 

We will continue to work with students on decoding strategies and comprehension. Decoding strategies will be taught during our sight word instruction using the paper books that will come home on Fridays. Remember you are always welcome to contact us to get a reading bag sent home daily with colored picture books on your child's level. We will work on comprehension strategies using books related to our PBL topics. We will update the newsletter each month to reflect the strategies we are teaching. This month we will focus on nonfiction books and identifying the main topic and supporting details. 

Here are some great writing experiences you might share with your child, but please remember to have them pound and tap words that are not sight words. If they are sight words, have your child remember the song we have taught them or tell them how to spell it correctly. DO NOT TELL THEM HOW TO SPELL WORDS THAT ARE NOT SIGHT WORDS. 

1. To-Do List 

2. Grocery Lists

3. Chore Charts 

4. Letters to friends and family 

5. All About Books teaching others about a topic they are experts on 

May 6-10

• Sight Word: there, saw

• Sight Word Poem: Spring, What I Saw

• Superpower Lesson: 

  • Pattern Breaks - Super Readers use all of their super powers to read books even when the books do not follow a pattern.

  • Check Reading - Super Readers monitor their reading and fix anything that doesn't make sense or sound right.

May 13-17

• Sight Word: what

• Sight Word Poem: Summer

• Superpower Lesson: Patterns and Endings

Super Readers learn that not only can they use a pattern to read a book, they can use the pattern and the book's ending to better understand what they read.

Before Spring Break, students were asked the question "How might we help our outdoor environment at EPiC?" Students brainstormed many ideas, including plants, humans, and animals. We realized that we already learned about the interactions of plants and humans in our garden PBL. We decided to focus on animals for this PBL. We also concluded that the main animals we see at EPiC are some of the smallest creatures, such as butterflies, bees, ants, ladybugs, worms, and birds. Studio K began to sort these creatures into helpful or hurtful categories. 

This month, students chose which creature they were most interested in learning more about.  With their group, they researched their critter with the goal of becoming an expert.  Through animation, they will strive to teach others the importance of their creature to the earth and ultimately, to ourselves.  They will begin action steps to ensure that we are doing everything we can at EPiC to protect these animals.  

We have rescheduled our field trip to Burr Oaks and will be sending out information shortly.

Folder and iPad: Please remind your child to have these in their backpacks each night so they are ready for our day in Studio K!

Water Bottles: Please send these filled every day.  

Absences: Please communicate absences or late arrivals by adding Patrice.Clark@lps.org to any emails you send us or call 816-736-5730.