April 24th

We have some busy weeks coming up!  Next week we will be headed to the GR Children's museum on Tuesday.  The kids do not need to bring a lunch as we will be back in time for our normal lunch time.  We will be at the museum for a fun morning from 9:30-11:30am.  Our four parent volunteers should plan to meet us outside of the museum at 9:25am.  

Thursday is our music concert!  Please dress your child in nice "spring like" clothing with comfortable shoes.  We look forward to you joining us for an amazing concert!  Parents will be able to sign out your kindergartener in the classroom after the concert.  If you have siblings that need to be signed out as well, please let the office know ASAP so they can arrange to have them ready for you.  

For Your Calendar:

April 28th--Field Trip to the Grand Rapids Children's Museum 9:30-11:30am.  We have 4 parents that have been drawn to be our chaperones:  Devin Schmidt, Kaylee Smith, Stacy Burton and Caitlin Malone.  Thank you to everyone that volunteered!   Student admission is paid for by MLE Family Links fundraiser.  

April 30th--K/1st Music Program 2:30-3:00pm

May 14th--Field Trip to the Wittenbach Nature Center 9:30-1:30pm.  We will be eating lunch at the nature center.  Please pack a lunch and drink for your child.  We will need parent volunteers to meet us there.  Let me know if you are available to attend!  All parents are welcome!

May 21st -- Kindergarten End of the Year Family Picnic at Creekside Park in Lowell.  We hope all our Kindergarten families will join us for a picnic lunch and playtime!  10:45am-1:30pm  Younger siblings are encouraged to come, too!

May 22nd--Field Day 9:00-11:30am -- 1/2 day of school...12:00pm dismissal

May 28th--Field Trip to the Dairy Discover Farm 10:00-12:00.  All parents may attend.  Cost $6 per parent attending.  Student admission is paid for by MLE Family Links fundraiser.  

Reading

Theme:  All about Rules

*The job of the author and illustrator

*Listening for middle vowel sounds and ending sounds

*Letters/Sounds:  Practice the letter names and sounds for fluency.  

*Building words with known letters

*Taking picture tours/walks through a book

*Using an illustration to tell a story

*Make connections to our own lives when we read a book

New Sight Words:   she be

Review Words:  a      the    and      go    had     he    I      see    has     you   we   of    am   is   at    to  have    as     in      it      is    his    can    him    on   did    girl   for  but   up  all  look  with  her  what  was   were  said  that  they  down boy out little do

Writing

*Informational Writing

*Using sight words and known sounds to write simple sentences

*Capitalizing the first word in a sentence

*Writing beginning, middle and ending sounds in CVC words.

*Space between words

*Period at the end of the sentence

Math

*Introduction to 3 dimensional shapes:  cones, spheres, cubes and cylinders

*Understanding subtraction 0-10

*Composing and decomposing numbers from 6-10

*Writing and solving addition and subtraction problems 0-10 using manipulatives

*Counting to 100 by 1's and 10's

Reminders

*Send a snack daily

*Library books are returned on Thursdays

*Literacy Bags returned on Mondays

*Send a water bottle daily

*Once a month ice cream Fridays are free for all :)

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