Michigan our Mitten

Last week we were studying our great state, MICHIGAN!!!

We had a  lot of fun learning our state symbols and trying to remember them to win dojo points.  I was very impressed with how much they were able to recall.

We made a Michigan Slide show to help us remember everything

Michigan

A few reminders:

• June 3rd Half Day Am Only
• June 5th at 3:00 Kindergarten Musical Performance in the Gym
• June 10th End of the Year Celebration at 11:30   Half Day Am Only
• June 11th Last Day Half Day Am Only

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Summer is Almost Here

Can You Believe It?

We are only 17 days of school away from summer vacation.  As we wind down I wanted to let you know about the up coming events.  A letter came home with the information but here is another heads up on things.

 

May 21st 

Wear Purple, hats and sunscreen

Friday June 5th

3:00 pm in the Edison Gym

The students need to wear red, white or blue or any combo

End of the Year Celebration

June 10th at 11:30 am

Come for awards and a movie to celebrate our kindergarten year

Looking for something awesome to do with your kids this summer?  We use a great website called Go Noodle for our brain breaks.  They have summer camp program for kids this year.  It's FREE!!!!!

Click the picture and sign up now to grab your spot for online summer camp activities to keep your kid active all summer long!!

http://camp.gonoodle.com/

Frogs

This week our focus was on Frogs!  We had a lot of fun learning about them and making a slide show to represent our learning.  The students helped to type in the labels as well as pick pictures to show different things. Take a look at what your students learned!

Frog Slide Show

The students also published a poem.  They wrote their rough draft and then together we edited it.  Yes things are still not perfect but we were working within the kids skill level.  I was very impressed with how much they were able to write.  I will be displaying them in the hall outside the class if you want to see all of them!

Upcoming this week:

X, W, V, U and T days

Teacher Appreciation (take time to thank a teacher in your and your child's life)

Earth Day

EARTH DAY

This week we talked about how we can make a difference and keep our Earth healthy and clean.  The students did an amazing job turning trash into creations.  We had a castle, a car, batman and robin, a robot and an entire band of instruments.  They really took to the idea of recycling, so hopefully you have a chance to do this at home.

End of the Year Count Down

Can you believe it?  We are almost to the finish line.  We are doing a fun alphabet count down.  I hope that you post this calendar somewhere so that you know what we are doing every day and help your students to participate.

END OF THE YEAR COUNTDOWN

Spring Fling

It's that time of the year when we all start to warm up and get excited about Spring.  The warmer weather puts a pep in our step and we just feel like we have more energy.  With this in mind I wanted to share some active ways you and your student can learn.

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Multi-tasking!

Pin up different flash cards and have your child toss the ball at the ones which you call out.  

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Gross motor or  Active!

Even though this talks about letters you can use :

Sight Words

Number Cards

Letter Cards

Shapes Cards

Go out and take some walks and see the many sign of Spring!

Oviparous Animals

Egg Laying Animals

This week we talked about oviparous animals.  These are animals who lay eggs.  We learned a lot about Chickens since they are the ones who we think of first.  But we read a fun book called

Chickens Aren't The only Ones!

In Writing we are talking about Adding More.  Next week we will be focusing in pairs how to tell more that our readers want to hear about.  We keep in mind all the time that we aren't just writing for ourselves but for other people as well.

In Math we are still focusing on Addition. Next week we will be starting to look at subtraction.  We will start with subtraction number stories first before we try and work with number sentences.

Sight Words!

Rocking our Reading

I just finished our third round of assessments for report cards.  You should all be very proud of the hard work that has been happening both in school and at home.  Our next big push is our sight words.  They are the most important part of reading and writing!  I have some great videos that we have been using in class.

I have also attached the words again.  

PRINT THESES OUT AND USE THEM AS FLASH CARDS!!!

Down on the Farm

This past week we learned about lots of different farm animals.  

The students worked hard on writing All About Reports on the Pigs, Sheep, Cows and Farmers. First they worked on tree maps and recorded what the animals had and what they can do.  Then they were able to use this tree map to transfer their thoughts into sentences.

We also read lots of books about the animals.  We compared what we saw in Non-fiction books to what happened in Fictional books about the same animals.  We laughed a lot with Duck from Click Clack Moo!  The whole series is a lot of fun!

In Math we have been working on addition.  The students have been doing great with knowing different ways to make a number.  Now we are going to be looking at number sentences.  These are new to the kids so they may find this to be a struggle.  Hopefully the more we see them the more confident we will feel with them.

Up this week:

Community Helpers

St. Patrick's Day

Rainbows