Ms. Thompson’s Kindergarten News

May 13-17, 2019

DATES:

May 13:  DIBELS testing

           Visiting the creek to dip

May 14:  NWEA testing

May 16:  Field trip to Midland Center for the Arts & Plymouth park (for lunch).  Leaving 8:30 am

May 20:  Delayed Start

May 27:  Memorial Day—NO SCHOOL

May 29:  K-2 Track and Field—12:30 pm

      Meet us up at the track about 12:20

FIELD TRIP:

Children will eat breakfast and be cleaned up at 8:15—feel free to arrive by 8:00.  We will use the bathroom and board the bus by 8:30.

PLEASE have a full set of extra clothes in a zip lock or other plastic bag in their backpack along with their sack lunch (labeled with their name) and drink.  Please no glass!!  Feel free to pack a granola bar for a snack before we arrive in Midland. Please dress your child appropriately for the weather.  Might be best to have tennis shoes instead of sandals or flip flops due to the amount of walking we will do.

We will have paper, pencils, some books for something to do on the ride.

*Reminder—we will not be visiting the gift shop.

*Please be mindful of taking pictures of other children and posting on Facebook. Some parents do not want their child on FB.

BABY PICTURE:

I need a baby picture of your child.  They will be writing what they could do as a baby, what they can do now (I use a picture I have from now) and then they will draw what they will look like as an adult and what career path they will choose!  Please send in a baby picture or email me a picture (melissa.thompson@mcbain.org). If you send in a picture, I will get a copy and return it to you!

I’d like to do this activity next week!

READING:

Our big book is Hen Hears Gossip.  We will be learning how to be a good citizen by listening and being respectful, as well as helping others and sharing.

PHONICS: long i and /ch/

SIGHT WORDS:  play, has, all

VOCABULARY WORDS:  citizen & respect

CATEGORY WORDS:  farm animals

WRITING: 

Journals and we will write about our science trips.  We will go to the creek Monday and the butterfly garden also this week. 

MATH:

Practicing numbers—counting and reading

Practicing adding and subtracting.

We have begun to do our assessments for our final report card!

Thank you for all the caps!  The children had a great time counting them!  We will be sorting and playing with them for a few days!

We ended up with 404 tops of all varieties!

SCIENCE:

We have a trip to the creek to dip for critters, trip to the butterfly garden to see if we have plants growing, and our field trip to Midland and we will be planting sunflower seeds along the playground fence!

Our Painted Lady caterpillars are now all in their chrysalis!  In about a week or so we will have butterflies!

Hope everyone had a nice Mother’s Day!  Wanted you to know your present was also part of science.  We’ve been talking about what plants need to grow.  They planted the seeds themselves!  You have white Shasta and gold African Daisy’s growing!  Hope they all survived the trip home! Told the kids to wait until after Memorial day to plant outside to be clear of frost!

BOOK BAGS:

Next Friday will be the last for book bags.  Please return all book bags by Friday—the children will receive a Subway coupon when it’s returned!

Ms. Thompson’s Kindergarten News

May 6-10, 2019

DATES:

May 13:  DIBELS testing

May 14:  NWEA testing

May 16:  Field trip to Midland

May 20:  Delayed Start

May 27:  Memorial Day—NO SCHOOL

May 29:  K-2 Track and Field—afternoon

Book bags need to come in Friday for a new book to read!

If you are helping on the field trip you need a clearance form filled out!  Some have done this already.  I will be going through the list and if you need one I will send it home on Friday!  Appreciate all the volunteers we have coming so far!!!!

I’ll need a baby picture of your child.  They will be writing what they could do as a baby, what they can do now (I use a picture I have from now) and then they will draw what they will look like as an adult and what career path they will choose!  Please send in a baby picture or email me a picture (melissa.thompson@mcbain.org). If you send in a picture, I will get a copy and return it to you!

READING:

We are reading Peter’s Chair.  We are talking about helping out at home and I’m using it as a help for how we can help in the classroom, too.

PHONICS:  Long a (with magic ‘e’) and /sh/

SIGHT WORDS:  help, too & him

CATEGORY WORDS:  household furniture

WRITING:  We continue to write every day in our journals.  At the end of the year I will be sending home their May/June journal and their August journal!  You will see some amazing changes!!!

SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES:

We are learning about plants and animals and how we all together change and/or impact our world.

On Monday we will be going to the creek by the parking lot to look in to the environment there with Laura Quist.  We will be dipping to see what creatures we can find!  Please have your child wear older clothes and make sure there is an extra set in their backpack in case they get wet!

MATH:

We will continue to work on addition, subtraction, reading numbers, 3D shapes (we will use toothpicks and marshmallows to make 3D shapes!) and  counting to 100 by 1’s, 10’s and 5’s.

  

Hope you have a great weekend and this weather clears up!  Although, I won’t grumble too hard—my niece and her family live in Duluth Minnesota (where Anabelle moved to)—they got 8.3 inches of SNOW last night (5-8-19!). NO THANKS!!!!  Looking for nicer weather!!!

Melissa 

PS>. Book Order due on Monday! (5-13-19)

Ms. Thompson Kindergarten News

April 29-May 3

DATES:

May 3:  Field trip permission

                  and Money due

May 7:  NWEA testing

May 13:  DIBELS testing

May 14:  NWEA testing

May 16:  Field trip to Midland

May 20:  Delayed Start

May 24:  High school graduation 7pm

May 27:  Memorial Day—NO SCHOOL

May 29:  K-2 Track and Field—afternoon

Remember to get the field trip and Bridges book money in!

If you are helping on the field trip you need a clearance form filled out!  Some have done this already.  I will be going through the list and if you need one I will send it home on Friday!  Appreciate all the volunteers we have coming so far!!!!

Book bags need to come in Friday for a new book to read!

Part of our Math and Science activities we are asking the children to recycle bottle caps—milk, pop, water bottle, etc.  We will be filling a bear jug—counting and adding to it every day they come in!  We are hoping to get enough that we could make an art project to recycle them in to something fun!  Please send in any clean tops you have! J

In the spring I do a fun project that goes in their scrapbook.  It’s a time line—I’ll need a baby picture of your child.  They will be writing what they could do as a baby, what they can do now (I use a picture I have from now) and then they will draw what they will look like as an adult and what career path they will choose!  Please send in a baby picture or email me a picture (melissa.thompson@mcbain.org). If you send in a picture, I will get a copy and return it to you!

READING:

Our big book this week is Bringing Down The Moon

It’s a fun story about a mole that wants to touch the moon.  Ask your child about how he tries! Take a look outside at night with your child and see if they have ideas about the moon!  Look at the sky during the day and night!  Can you find the big or little dipper?

LETTERS:  Review week!

g,g,j.qu,u.v.w.x.y.& z

 We are finishing up all our ABC books and they are coming home!!  The children are very excited to share them with you!  I hope you hang on to these and review over the summer the letters and sounds!!

SIGHT WORDS:  Reviewing!  Keep practicing all 51!  The end is coming fast!!!

VOCABULARY:  distance & recognize

CATEGORY WORDS:  opposites

COMPREHENSION:  problem & solution in a story.

I will begin final assessments very soon.  Please continue to read daily as well as practice letters, sounds, sight words, counting and reading numbers.

The Kindergarten goal is reading at or above a level D by June. 

WRITING:

We wrote letters to the preschoolers about what we liked about Kindergarten and why!  Our next opinion will be writing to the earth to explain how we think it should be cared for.

SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES:

If the rain ever goes away, we will be going outside along the fence to clear out leaves so we can plant sunflower seeds.  We are discussing ways to help our environment.

MATH:

We will be talking about estimating!  We will practice making guesses.  I also will be practicing addition through 10 and subtraction through 5, counting to 100 by 1,5 & 10 and identifying 3D shapes.

I’m going to ask for a little help!  Please remind your child that we still have a few weeks of school to go and excellent behavior is expected at all times!  It’s been a bit crazy lately! 

We’ve also been having some messes in the bathroom that should not be happening! 

Have a great weekend!  Weather looks to be getting nicer!

Melissa