Last Week Reminders

Monday
Remember to wear your tie-dye t-shirt!  Also, today is the last day you can purchase a school lunch or milk.  If you have any late fees for lunch or a library book, please send it in today!

Tuesday
It is our last day of kindergarten and our end of the year party!  Remember to wear your tie-dye t-shirt, sunscreen and a bottle of water!  Report cards will go home with your child.  Your child will not be able to purchase a school lunch or milk.  Please make sure your child has a packed lunch!

Thank you for such a great year!  We were lucky to have such amazing students and families this year!

If you are looking for a few ideas for summer, please read over the list of ideas from first grade that will come home in the report card.  RAZ kids will be available for students to access all summer! Also, you check out these recommended apps:

Writing Wizard--Letter formation
Letter Reversals--Letter formation
Friends of 10--Math
RAZ kids

Have a safe and happy summer!

Mrs. Haughey's class let their butterflies go!

We let our butterflies go!

May 18-29

Important News

• Field Day is Tuesday, May 19.  Please make sure your child is wearing tennis shoes, their tie dye t-shirt 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 shapes, place value and practice our math fluency facts to 5.  We will solve addition and subtraction story problems.

Tie Dye Tshirt Dates

May 19--PE Field Day
May 28--Visit to Craddock
June 2--End of the Year Party

Spring Concert and Vehicle Day Photos

Vehicle Day (Mrs. Gallucci's Class)

                                      

Spring Music Concert  (Mrs. Haughey's Class)

                         

May 4-15

Important News

• This week is a busy week!  On Monday, we are having Vehicle Day.  Vehicle Day is an extension of the career lessons with Ms. Mazzella.  We will see inside a fire truck, police car, and school bus.  We will also get a visit from Home Depot and the Parks and Recreation Department.  Wednesday the local preschools will be visiting to learn about kindergarten and to take a tour of our school.  Thursday will be Tie-dye day so please wear old clothes!

• Please do not send birthday invitations to school to be passed out.  Please understand that this can cause hurt feelings for the friends who are not invited to the party.  Thank you!

Language Arts, Science and Social Studies

For the next two weeks, we will be learning about seeds  We will be learning about what seeds need to grow and the difference between living and non-living things. We will be reading various stories including Seeds, The Mystery of Seeds and Alive or Not Alive.  We will continue to work on comprehension skills such as comparing and contrasting.

During writing workshop, we will continue our unit on opinion writing.

Word study--Blends

• Week of May 4--gl, pl, gr, pr
• Week of May 11--dr, gr, tr

We are also working on spelling our sight words correctly.  

Math
 We will begin a unit on shapes.