Mark your calendar:
Thursday, April 26: HW Folder Due; Quick Check Assessment
Friday, April 27: No School> Teacher Work Day
Week of April 29: Review Week: sight words, listening comprehension and writing assessments
Friday, May 4: Go to 8:15 Mass
Week of May 6: Last HW Folder to go home: only 3 sight words left!
Friday, May 11: Go to 8:15 Mass; Last Quick Check
Friday, May 18: Homework Folder due; go to 8:15 Mass
May 13-30: End-of-Year Assessments in sight words, reading, math, writing
Monday, May 28: No School
Thursday, May 31: 1/2 day (noon dismissal); End-of-Year Party: Kindergarten Celebration in the Parish Center at 7:00 pm (more information to come)
Friday, June 1st: Last Day of School 1/2 day (noon dismissal); Since the Kindergarten Celebration is considered our end-of-the-year party, we will not be having a party on the last day of school. Instead, the students and I will be having a private “see-you-soon” morning: where we will share memories and reflect on all we have learned this year together. Thank you for understanding.
Schedule of Specials:
Tuesday and Thursday (PE): children wear PE short and shirt with approved tennis shoes and plain white socks. Light-Up shoes and socks with color/emblems are not allowed.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday (Spanish, music, guidance): children wear regular uniforms (no PE). Approved shoes and navy socks are required. Tennis shoes are not to be worn on these days. Belts are required if there are belt loops. Hair accessories are limited to the colors found in the uniform.
Academic Themes for the Week
Topic: Insects and Butterflies
Look for their Weekly Emergent Readers to go home on Fridays. I encourage you to save these weekly emergent reader books in a special place: a treasure box or special basket. Whenever they want to pull out a story to read to you, they can select a story from their special story box.
Reading Block: Capitalization & Punctuation; Blending; Writing a Complete Sentence; identifying middle sounds;
Word Study: Continue reviewing the H Brothers and building word family houses: Review vowels.
Writing: Completing Sentences; developing their own story: character, setting, problem: informational writing (first, next, last)
Sight Words: look out their saw
Math Block: identify the relationship between larger and smaller numbers; count forward and backward on number line; match a number card to a set of up to 20 objects; practice writing numbers to 100
Science/Social Studies/Art: Insects and Butterflies
Religion: The Good Shepherd
Enrichment:
Observing a caterpillar change into a butterfly. The start of ABC Countdown to Summer.
Mad Scientist:
Foodie Fun:
To Work On At Home:
writing their first and last name
writing numbers to 100
blending sounds together to read words>reading and writing simple sentences
*********memorize phone number and address> as suggested back in January and reminded by Fire Fighters!
tie their shoes