A week in review: April 22-26

It was another great week in Kindergarten with great weather, which we took advantage of, as we went outside for our playtime for a few days. We also wrote lists of spring things while outdoors one afternoon! The highlight of our week was definitely our trip to Critter Barn and the park. I want to thank all of my wonderful parent volunteers, we absolutely could not have done it without you, so thank you from the bottom of my heart. I am excited to talk in more detail about it with the kids on Monday! I have included some pictures at the end of this update. I tried to get pictures of each child but that proved to be more challenging than anticipated given the manner in which we were organized into groups. We have lots of things coming up as we close out our last month of kindergarten so continue to watch your emails closely! It is a blessing to be teaching your children!

Important Dates:

May 2: Pen Pals Pizza Party
May 3: Family Fun Night
May 8: Half day for Tulip Time
May 9: No PM Bussing
May 10: No PM Bussing

Additional Information:

This week we will be starting our ABC countdown to summer. On Wednesday we will have an apple treat (thank you to our parents for signing up to bring apple treats), on Thursday we have bring your favorite bear day and on Friday we will have fun with chalk day!

We will soon be starting a PBL (project based learning). I will be sending information out about this soon and will need some parent volunteers to help us with our research!

From the office:

Continuous Enrollment forms are now PAST DUE. Please make sure you have completed the following for enrollment for the 2019-2020 school year. If you have not completed, please complete as soon as possible.

OPTS (One Page Tuition Form): This is the white form with your tuition numbers on. You would have either picked-up from the office or would have received in the mail from us. Please sign and return.
Gold Transportation Forms: These would have come with your OPTS. Please sign and return.
Continuous Enrollment Form: This is an online form that you would have received in an email on or around March 4th. Please complete this Continuous Enrollment Form.

Curriculum:

Bible: This week we studied the ascension of Jesus and worked on a page for our spiritual journals. We reflected on what our Easter memory verse, Matthew 28:5,6 means to us.

Word Wall Word: why

Daily 5: We are continuing to work at our different stations during Daily 5 and have also been practicing our blending cards. Please keep practicing these at home!!

Phonics: We are continuing with words families. This week we did –ip and –ig. I am so excited as the kids are beginning to come up with words on their own! We also focused on the 2 sounds the vowel A makes.

Math: We finished up unit three and took our unit three test!

Writing Workshop: We worked on answering letters from our pen pals! Next week we will culminate our pen pals unit with our pizza party on Thursday afternoon! Thank you to those who have already volunteered, I believe there is still one spot open to volunteer!!!

Science: Our room got a little loud during science this week as we continued our unit on living things as we studied live worms!!! We discussed how they used their senses to know light and dark and how they move with their bristles as well as how they need to be moist to breathe!

Afternoons: This week we did a writing activity outside one afternoon as the warm temperatures were calling us outside!! We also enjoyed our quiet and play times as well as Daily 5 and our trip to the Critter Barn!!!