Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Tie-dye t-shirts!

We are excited to see how our tie-dye shirts turn out!  Please remember to wear them on Tuesday, May 7 and Thursday, May 30! We can't wait to see everyone in our class color! Mrs. Haughey's class is red and Mrs. Gallucci's class is purple.

Thursday, April 25, 2013

April 29-May 3 & May 6-10

Important News
  • Please wear old clothes to school on Monday, April 29 for Tie-dye day!  The tie-dye t-shirts will come home on Monday.  It will include washing instructions. 
  • Spring Music Concert is Friday, May 3 at 9:30.
  • Field Day is Tuesday, May 7.  Please make sure your child is wearing tennis shoes and has a water bottle. 
  • We will being completing end of the year assessments during the month of May.  Therefore, please make sure your child is well rested and eats a healthy breakfast. 
  • Please continue to work on sight words and math facts. 
  • Please return your "book in a bag" as we are going to be concluding this program for the year and we would like to have all of our books returned.  Thank you!
Language Arts and Science
We will begin a unit on insects.  We will learn about all types of insects!  Have you heard about the caterpillars that we have been observing in our classroom?  We have been writing in our journals about our observations.  Now, we are waiting for them to make a chrysalis.

We will continue to talk about long vowel sounds, and adding -s and -es to make plural nouns.

Math
We will continue our unit on place value and practice our math fluency facts to 5.  We will solve addition and subtraction story problems. 

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Earth Day

Today, we were Earth Protectors and picked up trash along the trail behind Miller School.  We filled 4 garbage bags with trash!  We want to keep our Earth clean!

Thursday, April 18, 2013


 Dear Parents,
          The school year is coming to an end and we will be celebrating  our kindergarten year with some final fun activities.   However, before the end of the year, we would like to do a special project.  Each class will be making tie-dye t-shirts to wear to the end of the year events (PE field day and end of the year party).  They will be coordinated so that each class will be wearing a different color.  Therefore, we need your help.

          Please send in one plain white t-shirt.  Please wash and dry it before you send it to school so that the dye will adhere well to the t-shirt.   Please write your child’s name on the tag and send it in a plastic grocery bag.  We would like to have all the t-shirts by Wednesday, April 24 if possible.  When we send home the tie-dyed t-shirts we will include special washing instructions.

          If you have any questions, please contact your child’s teacher. 

 

                                                          Thank you,

                                                          Kindergarten Teachers


Thursday, April 11, 2013

April 15-19 and April 22-26

Language Arts, Science and Social Studies
For the next two weeks, our focus is on how to keep our Earth clean.  We will be learning about recycling and ways to take care of our planet.  We will be reading various stories including Recycle It, Where does all the Garbage Go, and Saving our Planet.   We will also continue to work on comprehension skills such as main idea, cause and effect and drawing conclusions.  During writing workshop, we will write about all the information we have learned about taking care of our Earth.

Math
We have been focusing on fluency with the addition and subtraction facts to 5. You may have seen some timed tests come home. We are practicing completing 10 math facts in one minute.  We will continue our unit on place value.