Reminders:

Please send in clean towels on Monday-thank you!

Wednesday: All school chapel at 9:30. Anyone is welcome to attend.

Thursday afternoon: Outdoor Learning with Maestra Patrick. Please make sure your child is dressed comfortable to walking outdoors in the afternoon.

Looking ahead…May 25 PBL presentation in our classroom at 3pm. Parents and siblings are invited to watch. After school on the 25th, ALL kindergarten families are invited to play at Lawrence street park. We plan to enjoy some fellowship and snack until about 4:15. More details to come!

What We Have Been Learning:

Burn Bright Behaviors: This week we have focused on choosing: respect, responsibility and safety. Some of these behaviors include choosing respect in the hallway by using a quiet voice and keeping hands to yourself, choosing responsibility in the bathroom by keeping it clean, and choosing safety on the playground by using play equipment the way it was intended. All adults in the building have been looking our for these positive behaviors. When we see it we have been encouraging by saying “good job” or giving a thumb’s up and sometimes giving a burn bright ticket. We are working really hard on earning tickets AND encouraging positive behavior. One of our friends one a raffle on Friday!

Math: We have working on understanding all the ways to make ten. This is something that can be practiced at home. Find ten items (toys, crackers, rocks outside, etc) and show different combinations of the items (1+9, 2+8, 3+7 and so on).

Writing Workshop: We continue to work on writing How To instructions. This week we saw a short clip of Agent Oso where how to jump rope was explained in three simple steps. We wrote out the instructions after we tried it out. Sounding out words is still difficult. We are practicing chopping a words into sounds and writing out the letters.

Daily 5: We learned about a few new word work activities: a game and puzzle cards. It was also so nice out this week, we just had to read outside.