I can't believe it's June already. Kindergarten is almost over and your children are looking more and more like 1st graders everyday. Thank you to everyone for the birthday cupcakes and flowers. What a great surprise!
Upcoming Events:
June 18th Dad's Building Day 8:15-9:15am
June 19th Awards Assembly
June 20nd Weds. 10:30-11:30 Kindergarten Performance (this is a change from the nightline)
June 22nd End of Year Picnic 9:30-11:30pm followed by pizza party in the room
Ghildren will bring home all of their work including their report card on the last day.
HELP WANTED: We need small bits of wood for our building day (any size thickness or shape will do, but should be smaller than a paper plate) and wood glue.
For our end of the year picnic I need 80 filled water balloons [yes 80:)] and 4-5 parents that can help with our picnic games. It's a lot of fun!!!
Reading: We will be reviewing all our comprehension skills. The last 2 weeks of homework will be reading logs and a writing a story of the week only. Please remember to read your little books EVERYNIGHT!
We will learn the sounds of the letters Th, Ch. We will review all sight words.
Share:
June 4th If I were president
June 11 Bring in somethinkg made of wood.
Math: Finishing up shapes this month and money.
Social Studies: American Symbols
Science: Wood, Earth Science-landform characteristics
Writing: We are using all our new words (he, are, the, can, she, said, play, I, see, to, went, like, a, and, go, love, have, here, for) to write stories of at least 3-4 sentences with spaces in between each word. Now I am asking students to write more interesting stories.
Homework: The homework for the last 2 weeks will be reading and writing. This a model you can use over the summer. Be sure you read aloud to your child and also give your child time to read independantly. For writing, use a 3 step method. Step#1 Write as many things as you can think of for your topic. Step#2 Read it to others and see if there are missing words or whole sentences you can add to make your story more clear or more interesting. Step #3 Look for capitals, periods and words that need to be fixed. These 3 steps should be done on different days and may take up to 20 mins. per step. And the last step is to decide whether to publish it or not. If you child chooses to publish it at school he/she may choose to use a computer or make a tradional book. I will do my best to get these published to the blog. Please feel free to add your comments to our "authors":)
