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| Maeve and Lucia make some creative fun with Cuisenaire Rods. |
WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS
Spring fever has erupted with the excitement of warm weather. Although we were awarded with the Certificate of Achievement last week, this week has been more challenging. I have been emphasizing first grade expectations -- quiet bodies, quiet hands and quiet mouths. Having said that we are also doing a lot of movement activities, and having extra recess time. Our jump rope participants are fast becoming experts. Some of us have reached above 30 jumps! Great job!
Bizzy Bee reminds us online on our website with Kindness Tip #2: we should offer to help our friends if they need help instead of running past them on the way to recess. She also congratulates Keira on her Writing Award from Vermont Public Television!
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| Los estudiantes juegan con los numeros. (The students play with numbers.) |
Cross Curriculum: Science, Math & Language Arts
We are finishing up our plants unit, learning about the lifecycle of plants and what plants need to grow big and strong. We made connections to ourselves and what we need to grow big and strong. We compared how we are alike and how we are different from plants.
Share: Thank you for the creative nature shares. They enjoyed the wonderful things from nature: flowers, shells, gems and rocks. Next week’s share: something that is handmade.
Math: We continue to work in our Spring Math Journals and work in our Numbers 1-20 Book. As we work in our Numbers Book we are learning about how to group numbers together and how to bond numbers together to make bigger numbers. For instance: 8 is made with a group of 5 and a group of 3, and 17 is made witha group of ten and a group of 7.
Centers: We continued working in our centers from last week. We also started reading in groups. These books we read at school do not go home, but please continue working with your children to read with them their sight words and small books and please continue to read to them. Continuing those activities will be important as they develop an understanding of stories as well as learn to read. They have made a lot of progress throughout the year. They should be very proud of their accomplishments!
Spanish: Senora has been working hard to teach the children fun songs, numbers, colors, ani,mal names and more! Mucas gracias senora!
ELA: We completed our third ELA spring assessment: Informational Writing. They read a book called Trees and chose one fact they learned. They also drew a picture to support their writing.
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| Ms. Hill reads aloud during library class. |
CALENDAR:
- Group Snack: This week’s healthy snacks were provided Maeve’s family. The children enjoyed wonderfully healthy snacks: Annie’s Cheese Crackers and Graham cracker bunny cookies, Vanilla Greek Yogurt with straweberries and berry applesauce. Kerridwyn’s family will be providing our healthy snack next week.
- Future Snack Weeks: Tate’s family is providing snack the week of 5/27. Keira’s family the week of 6/3 and Chance’s family the week of 6/10.
- Sunday, May 19th: Carol Witherington is retiring. If you would like to wish her well meet at the Rec. this Sunday, May 19, from 1:00 to 5:00 pm.
- Tuesday, May 21st come meet the candidates for our new principal
- Wednesday, May 29th - Early release at noon..
- Wed. May 29th: Parent Appreciation Concert-children should be in the classroom by 6:15PM
- PTSF 4th Annual Book Swap: Please donate your gently used children’s and young adult books. We are 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 Tanner during the week. The children seem to really enjoy their house guest! Thank you for taking such good care of our classroom friend!
- Kindergarten End-Of-Year Celebration: Tentatively scheduled in our classroom for June 13th (1/2 day of school).
Sincerely,
Jennifer Bodnar
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