KM Happenings

Dates to remember:

June 12- Dance Party-Wear your best shoes for a fun day of dancing

June 15- Tent Day-bring a blanket or towel (that can fit in backpack or be easily carried)

June 16- Super Hero Day- wear your favorite superhero costume- no masks or weapons

June 17- Beach Party-wear a Hawaiian shirt/ beach towel

June 18- Move Up Day- Children will meet their new teacher and classmates. 

Fun Days 

June 18- Last Day of School- 11:30 Early Dismissal

This Week In KM

Literacy: 

We culminated our research on how living things depend on trees with a diorama walk! Children displayed their fantasic diorama for their classmates to to see. Everyone worked very hard on all the elements of this project and were proud of their accomplishments. 

The book The Reflection in Me by Marc Colagiovanni was the perfect book for us to write what we like about ourselves. The character in the book talks to her reflection about all the wonderful attributes she sees in herself. Children were able look in a mirror and decide what they want to write about themselves. 

We listened, danced and read the lyrics to a song called "When I Grow Up." It was a fun way for us to start to think about the possible ideas of what they would like to be when they get older. Children were able to use clip boards and find a space in the classroom to draw and write about what they want to be when they grow up. 

Heggerty:  We are practicing the following phonemic awareness skills daily: 

• reviewing syllables

• substituting medial sounds

•  blending/segmenting 4 phonemes

• segmenting words into phonemes

• adding final phoneme sounds

• deleting final phonemes

• substituting final phonemes 

Fundations:  

• Reviewing rhymes

• Reviewing magic e

• Exploring Blends/ ccvc words

• Exploring Magic e words/ cvce

• Tapping and writing words with diagraphs (ch, wh, th, sh, ck)

• Heart word games

• Reading sentences together

• Sentence dictation

Math: 

• Writing addition/subtraction equations using students i.e 5 students with short hair plus 3 students with long her equals how many students with hair. (the group really thought that was a funny example!)

• Practicing number formation

• Composing number from 11-19

• Comparing two numbers from 0-20 on a number line

• Decomposing numbers less than or equal to 10 

• representing addition and subtraction equations with verbal explanations

• Counting to 100 by 1's and 10's daily

• Exploring 10 and "some more"- teen numbers

• Counting backwards

Craft:  Disco Balls- We made paper disco ball decorations to go with our Dance Party

                    General Classroom Reminders: 

* If your child is absent, tardy, or has a dismissal change please use PickUp Patrol and email csamarjian@nrsd.net. If it’s a consistent change (ie. pick-up every Thursday), one communication to all stating this is fine. Health questions should go to Rebecca Carle, rcarle@nrsd.net. Anything that is simply classroom related (family news, having a tough day, classroom questions, etc) should go to myself and Colinda. 

Your child will receive a red folder to go between home and school every day. Please check their folder daily and send it back to school back each day. If your child is getting school lunch, please circle their choice on the lunch menu in their folder. 

Please pack a snack and labeled water bottle everyday. Snacks must be peanut nut and nut free as we eat in the classroom, peanut butter and nuts are fine to pack for lunch. It's best to separate your child's snack from their lunch.

Please keep your child's extra clothes updated with weather appropriate options. We go through a lot of socks and pants during the winter and early spring days! 

We have PE on C  days. Please have your child wear sneakers to school for PE (sneakers are great all days, especially for recess!)