Important Dates

May 4: Pen Pal Pizza Party

May 4: Fun Night

May 9: 1/2 Day (Tulip Time)

May 10&11: No PM busing and No hot lunch

May 28: Memorial Day (No School) Kindergarteners are invited to march in the parade. (More details soon.)

June 6: Field trip to Farmers Market

Reminders

• Farmers Market: On Wednesday, June 6 we’ll be heading to our last kindergarten field trip, the Farmers Market! From there we’ll head to Kollen Park for a picnic lunch. We will not be eating hot lunch that day. We will be back to school about 12:45. “Morning kids” are welcome to stay until then! If you need to pick your child up at the normal 11:50 time, please meet us at Kollen Park.
  • We are still looking for a couple more drivers for this field trip! It’s a little more hands-on so I’d like to make the groups a bit smaller than normal if possible. The only way to do that is with your help! 🙂 We’ll be leaving about 9:30 that morning. Please use this link to sign up. Thank you!
• Pen Pal Celebration: Thank you to everyone who signed up to help! I’m looking forward to this special day! A few reminders…
  • If your child attends 1/2 day please plan on picking her/him up by our classroom.
  • If your child attends full day our pizza is actually 1/2 English muffin with pizza sauce and cheese. It would make a great main dish of a lunch. It would be very appropriate to send along some sides like fruits, veggies, etc. please.

Curriculum

Bible: We continue learning about parables. This week we read the parable of the Lost Son or the Prodigal Son. Each time we read a new parable your child completes a simple project. We’re collecting these in a bag to bring home at the end of our unit.

Literacy: Over the last 2 weeks we’ve talked about the verb estar to describe the location of a person or thing and to describe an action in progress in the first person. This week we learned how to describe actions other people are doing right now. In English this would be equivalent to present progressive verbs in the 2nd and 3rd person. Sound hard? You’d be surprised how often your students use this tense without even realizing it! This is the beauty of immersion. I get to introduce your children to the “fancy names” of things they say every day. 🙂

• Reading strategy: Inferring
• Read aloud: El pez arcoiris y la cueva de los monstruos
• Vocabulary words
• el pez (fish)
• la cueva (cave)
• el brazo (arm)
• la piedra (rock)
• el arcoiris (rainbow)
• Word wall word: ¿qué? (what) que (that)
• Phrase of the week: ¡Hablemos solamente español! (Let’s only speak Spanish)
• Letter of the week: Kk

We’re also talking about rhymes. On Monday Maestra Angelica and I led small groups in a rhyming activity. On Friday we finished our Cat in the Hats by adding rhyming words to the stripes in his hat.

Important Dates

May 4: Pen Pal Pizza Party

May 4: Fun Night

May 9: 1/2 Day (Tulip Time)

May 10&11: No PM busing and No hot lunch

June 6: Field trip to Farmers Market

Reminders

• Farmers Market: On Wednesday, June 6 we’ll be heading to our last kindergarten field trip, the Farmers Market! From there we’ll head to Kollen Park for a picnic lunch. We will not be eating hot lunch that day. We will be back to school about 12:45. “Morning kids” are welcome to stay until then! If you need to pick your child up at the normal 11:50 time, please meet us at Kollen Park.
  • We are still looking for a couple more drivers for this field trip! It’s a little more hands-on so I’d like to make the groups a bit smaller than normal if possible. The only way to do that is with your help! 🙂 We’ll be leaving about 9:30 that morning. Please use this link to sign up. Thank you!
• Pen Pal Celebration: Please follow this link to sign up for volunteering during our pen pal celebration or to bring pizza ingredients if you are able and interested! Thank you!
  

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Curriculum

Bible: We started our new unit on parables this week. We read the parables of the lost sheep and lost coin. We learned that God loves us so much and seeks us out when we are far from him.

Literacy: This week we talked about the verb “estar” again. Last week we learned that this important word is used to describe the location of an object or person. This week we learned that it’s also used to talk about present progressive verbs. In English these verbs end in -ing. This time we focused on how to express something in the form “I am ____.” Estoy ______.

• Reading strategy: Inferring
• Read aloud: Sana Ranita Sana
• Vocabulary words
  • la cucharada (tablespoon)
  • curar (cure)
  • enfermo (sick)
  • el abrazo (hug)
  • las caricias (pats… think on the head or pats on the shoulder :))
  • linda/o (cute, sweet)
  • cariñosa/o (loving)
  • las cosquillas (tickles)
• Word wall word: bueno (good)
• Phrase of the week: Yo también. (Me too!)
• Letter of the week: Jj

Important Dates

April 19: Full-day field trip to Critter Barn (Please see note below.)

May 4: Pen Pal Pizza Party (See note in writing workshop section below)

June 6: Field trip to Farmers Market

Reminders

• Critter Barn: This week I sent a letter with some details about our trip. Please see the same details below:What about 1/2 day students? If your child normally leaves before lunch on Thursdays they are welcome to join us for the full day on the 19th. If this is a problem, please let me know and we can make other arrangements.

  What’s the plan for lunch?  We are going to be at the Critter Barn all day, so you will need to pack your child a lunch to eat. To make lunch the easiest we can, it would be helpful if you sent your child’s lunch in a sack that can be thrown away at the Critter Barn. Keeping track of lunch boxes could be tricky. We will have a large cooler or bag to keep the lunches in so please label your child’s lunch. Also, it may be best to pack foods that do not need to be kept cold. Please pack a juice box or plastic water bottle for a drink.

  What should my child wear? The Critter Barn does not cancel for rain so please dress your child appropriately. I would suggest either boots or old shoes and clothes that could get a little dirty. We will spend time both indoors and outdoors.

  What’s the plan in the afternoon? Weather permitting, we will spend some time at Lawrence Street Park right in Zeeland. We will be back to school by 3:15 in time for the bus and pick up.

Curriculum

Bible: We finished our Easter timeline and celebrated Jesus’ resurrection together. Your kids are doing a great job practicing their Bible verse!

“El ángel dijo a las mujeres: -No tengan miedo; sé que ustedes buscan a Jesús, él que fue crucificado. No está aquí, pues ha resucitado, tal como dijo. Vengan a ver el lugar donde lo pusieron.” Mateo 28:5-6

Literacy: This week we talked about the verb estar, to be, and how to use it to describe where someone or something is. We had fun working with a friend to move Beanie Babies around the classroom and try to explain where the animal was.

• Reading strategy: Inferring
• Read aloud: El Hallazgo de Franklin
• Vocabulary words
  • la cámara (camera)
  • el camino (path)
  • la fotografiía (photos)
  • el parque (park)
  • las llaves (keys)
• Word wall word: hola (hello)
• Phrase of the week: ¿Hacemos fila?
• Letter of the week: Hh