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| Paige Jumps High! |
WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS
I have introduced new circle songs and games for our morning meeting. It involves the opportunity for them to follow directions and allows for them to be moving safely, cooperating with each other, and learning poems and songs. The theme this week is spring as we sing a song about a little flower seed. We are learning a hand game, “Peas, Porridge Hot, Peas, Porridge, Cold” and another “Pitty, Patty, Polt.” It is great to hear their giggles and see them concentrate on these rhythmic movements. At recess they are becoming quite the jump ropers as well!
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| Lucia and Morgan work together to plant perennial flowers in the corner of the yard. |
Cross Curriculum: Science & Language Arts
We continue to make more connections to the water cycle with the introduction of the life cycle of plants. The children are enjoying the opportunity to dig along the fence line and re-plant some of the perennials from the garden bed that were dug up last fall. The red wheelbarrow that was given to the kindergarten classes from Farm to School has been getting a lot of action! As a connection to Earth Day and the upcoming
Vermont Green Up Day this Saturday, (see Calendar Notes for more information) we have been reading a number of wonderful books. As a writing response to these books they wrote a sentence about how they can take care of Mother Earth and illustrated it. Mrs. White and I will display them in Damon Hall this Saturday for viewing when volunteers gather for lunch at 11:30am.
Share: This week’s shares were from Nature. We were treated to some forsythia and a deer skull and rack. Next week please have your child bring in something that begins with the sound /Rec./ or /ch/.
Math: We continue to work in our Math Journals working as a whole group to read a problem, and offer different ways to solve the problems. Then they work independently to solve the problem and show their thinking. I recently made new number writing books to give them more practice understanding the number concepts of 0-20. Not only is the goal to master the writing of numerals correctly, but also understand the concept of ten and teen numbers. This involves place value and understanding that the numbers 11-20 involve a bundle of ten and ones left over.
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| Chance works hard to illustrate and write a sentence. |
Centers: Our activity centers included a writing center, sentence puzzles, sewing our their colored pencil cases, and
ELA: As a follow up to our fall English Language Arts assessments, we completed our first language spring assessment. They did an outstanding job attending to the task and doing their best work.
CALENDAR:
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| Tate is quite a jumper! |
- Green Up Day: Damon Hall, Singing with Mrs. White’s Class at 11:30 and viewing our writing and artwork.
- Group Snack: This week’s healthy snacks were provided Lucia’s family. The children enjoyed bananas, Cheese-its, cheddar cheese and Ritz Crackers, Pretzels, Grapes, Apples and more. Thank you! Morgan’s family will be providing our healthy snack next week.
- Snack Sign Up Needed: We will have 5 weeks left of school and will need more families to sign up for one more week. Please let me know if you can sign up for the following weeks: May 6, 13, 20, 27,
June 3 and 10. - PTSF 4th Annual Book Swap: Please donate your gently used children’s and young adult books. I am accepting used books until May 29th for the Book Swap. The swap will be held on Thursday, May 30. The children will all come home with one or two books. Book Swap books are priceless in more ways than one. Thank you for putting more books into the hands of students!
- Our classroom buddy George went home with Paige during the week. We enjoyed hearing about all of his adventures! Thank you for taking such good care of our classroom friend!
- Carol Witherington is retiring. If you would like to wish her well meet at the Rec. on Sunday, May 19, from 1:00 to 5:00 pm.
- Tuesday, May 28th: Parent Appreciation Concert: Grades K-5, 6:30pm. Student’s should arrive to our classroom by 6:20 PM. We will walk to the assembly and sit together. As with the Winter concert children should remain seated with our class and will walk back to our classroom to be picked up.
- Kindergarten End-Of-Year Celebration: Tentatively scheduled in our classroom for June 13th (1/2 day of school).
Sincerely,
Jennifer Bodnar
