KM Happenings

Themes this month :

People and Animals Depend on Trees

End of the year 

Important Upcoming Dates:

June:

6/16-last day of school-early release-11:30 (no lunch)

This Week In KM

Literacy:  This week in EL we continued with our research on how living things depend on trees. Our focus this week was how animals depend on trees. We gathered research from our book Be A Friend To Trees,  and learned about the different parts of trees that animals depend on for food. We chose 3 animals that we wanted to focus on. We created triaramas, coloring a sky, grass and included a tree. We then constructed our 3 animals out of clay and used them with our triaramas to act out how they depend on trees for food.  We ended by writing a sentence for each animal that we had chosen. We learned that a verb is a word that you use for an action and that "eat" is a verb. We then learned other words that were also verbs with a similar meaning to eat: munch, nibble, scarf down, dine, feed. We used these words in our writing. 

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

•  isolating ending sounds in a series of words

• deleting phonemes from the beginning of words

• changing the beginning or ending phoneme of a word to make a new word

• identifying medial vowels 

Fundations:  This week we continued to review and practice what we've learned throughout the year with letters, sounds, and words. Our focus this week was on reviewing digraphs. We used a decodable reader to practice the sounding out words with the CH digraph. We read each page, circled snap words, and highlighted the digraphs. It was so great to hear so many friends say how "easy" the book was to read! KM has become confident readers! 

Snap words: a, the, and, to, is, up, at, no, can, in, see, we he, on, be, I, me, you, an, so, go, am, it, like, my, do, one*, said*, was*, have*, they*, she*

*-words that are introduced but not assessed. 

Math:  This week we worked on solving subtraction problems. We learned how to use a number line as a good tool to help us find our answers. We also practiced recording subtraction equations. We learned a new game called "Bug Catchers" to extend our learning of subtraction.  We said goodbye to our May calendar and introduced June. With our June calendar, we are working on addition, subtraction, and number trees. We have already found ABC and ABCD patterns in our calendar. 

Crafts:  Clay animals 

                  Animal Puppets

                  Triaramas 

An email to fssattendance@nrsd.net, cmurray3@nrsd.net, and csamarjian@nrsd.net  is needed when your child has a different routine than usual (absent/tardy, early dismissal for appointment, pick-up instead of bus, different bus stop/person getting them off the bus, staying after school for activity, etc.). Unless it’s an emergency, the email should be sent by 8:00am. If there’s an emergency during the day, send an email to everybody by 1:00 or call the office directly if it’s after 1:00. If it’s a consistent change (ie. pick-up every Thursday), one communication stating this is fine.  Please put your child’s full name, the date, and your name on each communication. Health questions should go to Audra Maria, amaria@nrsd.net. Anything that is simply classroom related (family news, having a tough day, etc) should go to me and Colinda (Mrs. Sam) . 

General Classroom Reminders: 

Your child will receive a red folder to go between home and school every day. If they are getting a school lunch, be sure to mark your child's menu in their folder and indicate whether they will get the main lunch or one of the other options. If they're getting nothing, just leave it blank. Please, please, please be sure to mark your child's lunch menu as the meals are brought over from Sawyer so if it isn't marked we will not have a school lunch for your child. 

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

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