April 22nd

Happy Earth Day!  Today we talked about the little things we can do to make a difference in keeping our world a safe and healthy place to live.  We talked about recycling and picking up trash and turning off lights to conserve energy. 

Danielle Cares for Chairs

Keep sending in your bread tags!  The school's goal is 1000 tags.

Upcoming Trip for Your Calendar:

Monday, May 16th -- Field Trip to the Dairy Farm--Dairy Discovery

Parents are welcome to meet us at the farm, but we unfortunately we can not accommodate younger siblings on this trip.  Students will need a sack lunch as we will be eating at the farm.

Thursday, May 19th --  Field Trip to the Wittenbach/Wege Nature Center

9:30-1:30pm  Students will need a sack lunch as we will eat at the center.

Parent volunteers needed!  Please email me if you are available.  

Tuesday, May 31st -- Kindergarten Picnic at Creekside Park in Lowell.

We encourage all families to pack a lunch and meet us at the park for an afternoon of fun!

Younger siblings are welcome!!  We will arrive at 10:45am and plan on eating around 11:30am.  We will head back to school at 1:00pm.  Parents are welcome to take their child home following the picnic or they may ride back to school.  

 Reading/Phonics

This week we learned that vowels are not only found in every word, but also in every syllable of a word.  

Can your child read all these SNAP words?

I have included our most recent SNAP word assessment in your child's folder today.  Please help your child practice the highlighted words.  The words we learn this year are the same words your child will review the first unit of their first grade year, so knowing them now will help them feel confident going into first grade as a reader!

Unit #1 Words:   

a    me     the     I     like   my

Unit #2 Words:

see      at     look      this     is     here     it      in      an     and

Unit #3 Words:

can   to   do    we   be    got   was    went    she     he

Unit #4 Words:

how    you   am    did    on    up    fun     get    

day     play    say    for

Math

This week we reviewed 2 and 3 dimensional shapes and we measured our foot with cubes and compared them to a friend's foot.

Height Survey--Please go to the following link to record your child's height for Math Awareness Month!

Height Survey

Reminders

*  Send a snack daily several have been forgetting.

*  Send a water bottle daily...our drinking fountain is now working, too!

*  Return library books every Monday

Take a Peek at our Week...

Searching for vowels in Mabel's Graduation Invitation...

Mrs. Washburn's first graders joined us for some partner reading and Reader's Theatre!  We also got to hear all about first grade.

Loving the sunshine!

We've been learning about the rainforest!

April Showers...