KM Happenings

Themes this month :

How Do Animals Depend on Trees

Butterflies

Dates to remember:

May 15- Early Release

May 20-  No School for Kindergarten Classes Only/(screenings for incoming Kindergarteners)

May 25- No School/ Memorial Day

May 27 - KM Art Show - (9:30-10:30)- This is our end of the year event

June 18- Last Day of School- Early Dismissal 

Other: 

Children are very excited about our Art Show in May. They have been working very hard on numerous projects to display for you. Families will have the opportunity to walk through the Kindergarten wing looking at displays. Children can enjoy a snack with family (brought from home). The Art Show is our culminating event, we hope that you can can be there. Please let me know if you are unable to attend. I will make sure to have a teacher available for them to show their work to. 

This Week In KM

Literacy: 

In EL we read the book The tree in the Ancient Forest by Carol Reed Jones. The book is helping  determine what a main idea of a text is and learn how animals depend on trees to live and grow. There were lots of laughs as we acted the story out pretending to be animals and the tree. 

Our target goals included:

• Sharing observations on a new research topic

• Determining the main idea of a text

• Vocabulary included: depend, main idea, nourish, tunnel, collaboartion

We read a favorite book, The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle as a sequencing activity and as a beginning to discuss the life cycle of a butterfly. 

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

• tapping words with "r" blends

• exploring blending/segmenting 4 phonemes

• isolating medial sounds

• segmenting words into phonemes

• adding final phoneme sounds

• deleting final phonemes

• substituting final phonemes 

Fundations:  

•  We practice Heart words daily through a variety of games. Ask your child about "High Five"

• Tapping and writing words with 4 phonemes  

• Exploring CCVC/ CVCC words (tapping, reading, dictation)

• Reading sentances - playing games to fix sentance structure

Math: 

• Solving word problems with pictures and writing addition/subtraction equations.

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

• Exploring 10 and some more- teen numbers

• Identifying and describing objects in the environment using geometric shape names

• Counting backwards

• Discovering facts of 5 and 10

Craft:    Hungry Caterpillar Sequencing Activity

                    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!)