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)