Our Weekly Newsletter May 6-10

May 9, 2024

Dear Families,

We have ALL enjoyed the sunshine and warm weather this week!! I'm not sure who is happier about not having to wear coats, hats, gloves or boots - teachers or students😉

Thank you all for the beautiful notes, cards, and goodies for Teacher Appreciation Week - you really touched our hearts.  We love working with your children and we are so impressed with how much they have grown this year!

ELA SKILLS

This week in ELA skills, we spent a lot of time learning and practicing our new Tricky Words.  We read them, we wrote them, we spelled them and we played a  games with them!  The words are: were, here and there...super tricky!! Please help us read, write, and spell them at home, too.  We also read 4 new stories in our Zack and Ann readers.  We loved taking our readers outside to practice reading in the sunshine...look how cute we are😊

Check out one of the ways we practiced reading our Tricky Words this week.  We could play this game at home, too!  We are doing such a great job with our tic tac toe strategy, too!

ELA KNOWLEDGE

We are learning all about the seasons and weather in ELA Knowledge!  We are keeping a daily weather journal - where we write about the weather characteristics of each day.  We also listened to The Grasshopper and the Ants fable. We learned to identify and describe characteristics of a fable as well as identifying the moral. We also learned how seasons correspond to the main events in this story.  Be sure to ask us all about this fable at home, too!

MATH

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.

*Tomorrow is an Early Release Day!! Please be sure to send a note or an email if your child's going home plans will be changing.

*Mark your calendars for our Kindergarten Concert at 6PM on May 23rd!

Have a wonderful weekend,

💕 Mrs. Neuville & Mrs. Rocky