April 10-13  

Happy Easter!

April 14 Deadline for kindergarten registration for next year
April 14 Good Friday - NO SCHOOL
April 21 & 28 NO SCHOOL for KINDERGARTENERS ONLY
April 23 Auditorium Grand Opening
May 5 Muffins with Mom
May 12 Muffins with Mom
May 8   3rd & 4th Grade Concert
May 20 Color Run
May 26  Fun to be Fit
May 29  NO SCHOOL - Memorial Day
May 30 Kindergarten Concert
June 1  3/4/5 Track and Field
June 2 K/1/2 Track and Field
June 2  3rd Grade to Mackinaw Island
June 3  Bike-a-thon

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:  Nathan
Nathan likes playing X-Box, cars and trucks and building stuff.  He likes to eat Mac and cheese, pizza and tacos.  His favorite movie is Jurassic World and favorite books are Tractor books.  His goals are making more friends and ride in a monster truck.

We will be doing a class collection next week with our math lesson.  Can you send in clean pop, milk or water bottle lids for us to use?

READING:
This week we are reading about our country and our symbols.  Anna goes to Washington will show us these!
Letters:  Yy & Zz—we’ve made it through the alphabet!!!
Sight words: this, is, what
Vocabulary:  country & travel
Category words—ordinal words

WRITING:
We are learning to write an opinion letter.  We will be writing to the incoming preschoolers and writing something we like about kindergarten.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
We are working on a map skills book.  We’ve talked about our community, state, USA and world.  We went outside and learned how to find NSEW by using the morning sun.  The children learned the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
Science we are looking in to motion and how things move.

MATH:
We are learning about estimating.  We are also practicing addition up to 10

Please send in or email (mthompson@mcbain.org) a baby picture of your child so we can do our past, present, future page for our scrapbooks.