Week of April 16-20

DATES:

April 20  NO school for Kindergarten students only—Kindergarten orientation

May 4^th  NO school for Kindergarten students only—Kindergarten orientation

May 19—Saturday—Color Run

May 21—Delayed start

May 25  Fun to be fit @ 1:30

May 29—Kindergarten concert @1:30

June 1^st—Track and Field (K-2—afternoon)

Summer ball forms went home—they were due the 10^th.  Web site:  http://www.mcbainyouthsports.org

CHARACTER WORD:  Honesty

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:  William

William likes to play with toys and play soccer.  His friend is Connor.  He likes Mashed potatoes,  William’s favorite movie is How To Train Your Dragon 2,  His goals are to be a police officer and he wants to learn everything!!

BABY PICTURES: 

In a few weeks we will be doing a paper on past, present, future.  I will need a baby (preferable infant age) picture of your child.  You can email it to me or send it in—if you send it in I will copy and get it back to you as soon as I can.  The children will be gluing this copy of their picture to their paper and writing what they could do at that age.  I have current pictures they will glue under present and they will write about what they can do now!  Then they will draw what they will look like and will write about what they will do in the future.  It’s a fun project!

mthompson@mcbain.org

READING:

We are reading a story called Hen Hears Gossip.  We are learning about being a good citizen.  We are also reading books about taking care of our earth as April 22 is Earth Day!

VOCABULARY:  citizen & respect

SIGHT WORDS:  play, has & all

CATEGORY WORDS: farm animals

PHONICS:  we are learning long i-e (as in like, fine) and ch words

WRITING:

We finished up writing our letters to preschoolers.  I will be leaving the letters out at orientation.  I made a copy and will put theirs in their scrapbooks.  They did a great job!

We will be starting a new unit in writing—informational writing.  We will write about things we know about.

We continue to write every day in our journals! 

SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES:  We completed the sun unit in our science journals.  We will now start a unit on life cycles.  When it is warmer in May I will have Painted Lady butterflies!! 

MATH:

We are working on 3D shapes.  We will be making shapes using toothpicks and marshmallows.  We also are continuing to work on adding and subtracting!  They are really in to it!  Hope you enjoyed working with them and their bead bracelets!

Keep saving those caps!  We’re counting as they come in!!

BOOK ORDER DUE MONDAY—get some for summer reading!

BOOK BAGS:  They all have their book bags!  We will do Monday & Friday for returns and new shopping day!  PLEASE send these back on Monday—they will have a new book until Friday—then Friday bring back and we will shop for new books for the weekend!  I have many begging to read!  They are SO excited!!!! 

Have a great weekend!  Let’s hope spring is coming!!!  Enough snow!!

Melissa