Weekly Update 5/2

 Happy May!

We are now in the final chunk of our Kindergarten year. This will prove to be a busy and exciting time.

Mark your Calendar!

May 3, 2022	No School - Town Election
May 9 to May 13, 2022	Food Pantry Collection
May 11, 2022	SPIRIT DAY-Red, White and Blue day
	Kindergarten Painting Day
May 17, 2022	Early Release Day - 12:20 p.m.
May 30, 2022	No School - Memorial Day

 May Volunteer Calendar

If you have an approved CORI and would like to help in our classroom, please sign up at the link above. Please note that on Wednesday May 11, we will be doing our Eric Carle Painting. The time and number of volunteers needed as changed for this day. If you are interested in helping, please come prepared to get a little messy! 

Curriculum this week

Eric Carle

For the month of May, we will explore the work of Eric Carle. 

We will: 

*learn about and try his painting techniques

*study themes of his stories

*Use his stories to explore living things 

This week we will read Today is Monday, Tiny Seed, Little Cloud, and Does a Kangaroo Have A Mother Too?

Writing: Finishing How-To and Beginning Opinion Writing

We are still working on editing our How-To writing. It is really hard to think about every single step someone would need to know to complete these tasks!!!

Later this week, we will begin our Opinion Writing Unit. We all know that these kiddos have plenty of opinions, now, we will work on writing them down and providing evidence of why we have our opinion!

Handwriting: y, j

These two dropping letters are some of the trickiest letters to write!

Literacy: Power Word MY
*We will also be continuing our practice of making words with the lively letters that we have learned.

Math: Measurement

*We will think about our Body Height with Strings and order objects by length. 

Social Studies: Mother's Day

We will talk about what makes moms special and how we can show them that we love them. Moms, look for a special surprise to come home on Friday!

Science: Push and Pull

This unit has definitely been a challenge to get through. I hope to finish up this week by thinking about how engineers design things that move. 

Friendly Reminders:

Orange Folders

Please check your child's folder at the end of each day and take any papers out that do not need to be returned to school. 

Please send your child's folder to school each morning. 

Water

Please send your child to school with a water bottle each day. We have an extra supply for the occasional forget or emergency. We cannot provide your child with a water each day. 

Thank you so much for the generous water donations!

Food

Several students in the class have also been commenting on how hungry they are after eating all of their snack and lunch. We try to have a supply of snacks for the occasional forget and emergency, but we cannot continually give out snacks because the children are still hungry. Please simply pack one or two extra things in lunchbox's so that there is an option for the children if they are still hungry. Also, please make sure your children LIKE what they are expected to eat. 

Classroom Wishlist 

*Paper Towels