May 1-5

Happy Funky Friday! 

Upcoming events:
May 4: Action Figures/Sci Fi Day
May 22: Family Night
May 26: No School

NOTES: 
Teacher Appreciation Week - May 1-5
Help thank our teachers for their hard work. Provide an item for lunch or snacks during Teacher Appreciation Week.  Click on this link to sign up.  Thank you for your support!

A peek at our week: 

Reading:  Readers reread for many reasons! They read the first time to solve tricky words. They can read a book again to make their reading smooth! Then, they can read it a third time to post it funny, interesting, or important parts that they would like to share with their partner!

Writing:  After working hard during boot camp to make our writing easy to read and to write more sentences in our books, writers are ready to tackle true stories! We will start to brain storm by making book covers to help us hang onto our ideas. As readers, we know that we can take a picture walk to understand how a story will go. We will use that idea and quickly draw the pages of the book before we write. It's like a writing picture walk. Then as we think about writing the words, we will say them out loud and ask ourselves “does that make sense?” before writing.

Math: By the end of the year in Kindergarten, students are expected to be fluent within five. This means, they need to be able to add and subtract equations with numbers 5 or less with automatically. This week, we will be working hard to build fluency by doing flashcards and playing games like Addition Crossout.  Here is a copy in case you want to play at home:

Word Study: Here is a link with helpful information about sight words. It also contains a list of 100 frequently encountered sight words. If you feel like your child has a firm grasp on our sight word list, use words from this list! 

Science: Now that we have a better understanding of the characteristics of balls, we will start exploring what they can do! We will explore bounciness on different surfaces, discuss how different balls make different sounds as they bounce, and measure how high they can bounce. Then, at centers, students will test

• The bounciness of each kind of ball (counting the number of bounces)
• How much effort it takes to move it (using a straw to blow)