Our Kindergarten News

Mrs. Hammill, Mrs. Gleason & Ms. Baird's Class

Week of May 21st - 24th

A week - GYM on Thursday

 Our guiding principle for the month of May is Trustworthiness

Just a reminder that there is no school this Friday for an extended Memorial Day recess.  School will resume on Wednesday, March 30th.  Enjoy the longer break!

Our Kindergarten play is  Friday, June 1st at 9:30 in our Genet Auditorium.  All parents are invited to attend. 

Kindergarten screening for next years incoming students will be on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week.  I will be in the building but out of the classroom for this screening. 

Reminder....please send a snack in each day...snack time is around 2pm in the afternoon.

~Last week in Kindergarten ~

English Language Arts -   We continued to read different stories by Eric Carle and completed many writing activities relating to the books we had read.  We listened to The Mixed - Up Chameleon and then wrote about an animal that we wished we could be and why.  We also wrote about what happened in the story, The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  We read, Draw Me a Star, and then wrote about something we would draw and why.  We also completed a writing piece in our journals about a wish we would want if we wished upon a star.  We made a chameleon project from painted paper that the children had painted in art class.  We also made a star from tissue paper squares and a star tracer.  We painted our "props" for our class play on the story, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and we have spent time on stage getting used to where we are going to be and what are lines are.  Please remember to work at home with your child on their lines for the play.  There were a few children unfamiliar with their lines when we were practicing last week.   

We continued to work on our CVC dictation sentences and using sight words correctly within our writing.  (any misspelled sight words within our writing are written 5x each for extra practice)

Math - We worked on counting on from a tens frame and writing the numbers 11 - 19.  We worked with tens frames for the numbers 11 - 16 as we decomposed those numbers and learned the parts to create the whole.  We are practicing writing numbers when given a starting number and an ending number.  Ex....write the numbers 63 through 71.                           

                                        ~The week ahead ~ 

Theme –  The World of Eric Carle

Making our play "props", working on our lines, and getting ready for our play.

*we will tie-dye t-shirts for our play and field day

Reading and writing about different Eric Carle stories (Ten Little Ducks, Clumsy Click Beatle,  Little Cloud)

Writing journals

CVC/sight word dictation sentences for writing practice

Spelling test on Friday!

Math –  parts of 17, 18, 19; looking for a pattern in the numbers, review of topic 11.

Upcoming dates to remember:

May 22nd - 24th - Kindergartem screening for the incoming Kindergarten kids

May 25th - May 29th - Memorial Day recess

June 1st - Kindergarten Play at 9:30 in the auditorium

June 5th - Kindergarten Field day 1-2:30

June 8th - 1/2 day for students

June 13th - School wide picnic day (during lunch times)

June 15th - 1/2 day for students

June 21st - Last day of school for students

If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me at Genet or by school email, hammillju@egcsd.org

Have a wonderful week!

Julie