Weekly Newsletter- May 1-5th

 

Dear Families,

Wow!  Can you all believe that it is May?!  

The story this week was Jabari Jumps.  This book is about a boy who overcomes his fear of jumping off the diving board. While listening to the story, students worked on predicting, retelling, and making inferences.   Ask your kindergartner what their favorite part of the story was.

We made cute projects of us going in the pool, just like Jabari did in the story!  These projects are currently hanging in our hallway.  They remind us that summer will soon be here!

Here is a link to the video for you to enjoy!

We work on a poem each week.  This week's poem is called "In The Ocean" We looked for rhyming words, talked about vocabulary words, and sorted out words that have the silent e  and do not have the silent e.  I am sure you have heard this poem often at home!  Ask your kindergartner to sing you this poem.

In writing, we are continuing to work on writing our opinions.  This week we wrote about something that we did NOT like.  We all gave reasons why we don't like rainy weather.  We need to state our opinion, give a reason, provide an extra reason, and then restate our opinion again.  Students are asked to add labels to their pictures.  Practice this at home!  Encourage your kindergartner to sound out the words and write down the letter he/she hears.

During math, we are working on measurement, emphasizing estimating, measuring, and comparing length with non-standard units.  We stress precise measuring, counting, and recording.  Skip-counting by 2s has been reintroduced.  Encourage your kindergartner to practice counting by 2s to 20.