Friday, April 26, 2019

April 29- May 3
For Reading we will continue with Unit 6:  Building Our Homes.  The next story will be titled, “Old MacDonald had a Woodshop”.  We will be talking about what tools you need to build things.  We will review the short vowel sounds and review “characters.

In Math, we will continue our unit on Time, Data, and MeasurementJ We have been working on using the vocabulary words long, longer, longest and short, shorter, shortest. 

DIBELS testing for the end-of-the-year will begin soon.  Please review comparing sets and numbers, identify numbers 0-100, and naming the next number after a given number, letter naming, segmenting, and nonsense words.  The time for each is 1 minute!

The PTO Spring Fling Chinese Auction will be held on April 27th and 28th.  Our class’ theme basket will be “Knoebels Fun”.  Thank you in advance for your support! 

FYI:  Kindergarten Graduation will be held on Tuesday, May 28th at 1:00 PM in the high school auditorium.  Tickets will be sent home at a later date. 

Monday- art
Tuesday- computers
Wednesday- music
Thursday- guidance
Friday- gym

Thursday, April 18, 2019

April 22-26
For Reading we will begin Unit 6:  Building Our Homes.  The first story will be titled, “Building with Dad”.  We will be talking about how a school is built.

In Math, we will continue our unit on Time, Data, and MeasurementJ We have been working on using the vocabulary words long, longer, longest and short, shorter, shortest. 

DIBELS testing for the end-of-the-year will begin soon.  Please review comparing sets and numbers, identify numbers 0-100, and naming the next number after a given number, letter naming, segmenting, and nonsense words.  The time for each is 1 minute!

Spring pictures or money should be returned as soon as possible.

FYI:  Kindergarten Graduation will be held on Tuesday, May 28th at 1:00 PM in the high school auditorium.  Tickets will be sent home at a later date. 

The PTO Spring Fling Chinese Auction will be held on April 27th and 28th.  Our class’ theme basket will be “Knoebels Fun”.  Thank you in advance for your support! 

Monday- art
Tuesday- computers
Wednesday-music
Thursday-library
Friday- gym

Friday, April 12, 2019

April 15-18
We will read our last Reading story in Unit 5. It is This is the Way We Go to School. It is a fiction story about children around the world.  The comprehension skill we will focus on with this story is drawing conclusions and we will work with the letter sounds /y/ and /kw/ for the letters Yy and Qq.

In Math, we will continue our unit on Time, Data, and MeasurementJ We have been working on using the vocabulary words long, longer, longest and short, shorter, shortest. 

Spring pictures or money should be returned as soon as possible.

There is no school for students on Friday, April 19.

Book orders are due April 22.  This will be our last book order due to the Book Fair in May.

Kindergarten graduation is on Tuesday, May 28.  More information will be sent home in the coming weeks.

Monday-computers
Tuesday- music
Wednesday- guidance
Thursday- gym
Friday- No School

Friday, April 5, 2019

April 8- 12
For Reading we will begin the story The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper.  It is a classic fantasy story, and we will be talking about how trains move.  We will be learning about the comprehension skill, plot.  

In math, we will finish our unit on subtraction.

Report cards will go home on Wednesday, April 10.  Please sign and return the envelope.  The report card is yours to keep.

There is a $1 Spartan Dress Down on Friday, April 12.
The PTO Spring Fling Chinese Auction will be held on April 27th and 28th.  Our class’ theme basket will be “Knoebels Fun”. Donations are due to the teacher by Friday, April 12.  If a family would rather not shop for a donation, monetary donations will be accepted and Mrs. Kaminsky will shop for items for the basket.  There is no value set and you can be creative!! Thank you in advance for your support! 

Book orders are due April 22.  This will be our last book order due to the Book Fair in May.

There is no school on Friday, April 19.

Monday- computers
Tuesday- music
Wednesday- library
Thursday-gym
Friday- art