Friday, May 16

 Friday, May 16

Word Work with Manipulative Letters  

bite to bike to hike to hide to ride to rode to mode to made to shade to Shane 

 to shine to mine to fine 

 Irregular Words: there, where, who, by, my

  Read: Pete and I hike by the stone path.

                                    My five cats all like to sit on the same white rug.

                                          Check the note to see what time the shop will close. 

Spell: The line is a mile long!

                                     I like to sit in the shade. 

                                     I will ride my bike home.

KinderLiteracy: Butterflies

The kids will sequence the events in the butterfly life cycle.

Literacy Jobs 

Math: Circle Graphs

The kids will be introduced to this type of graph today. The idea is for the kids to continue analyzing and understanding what the data shows no matter what type of layout it is in.

Why are Butterflies so Colorful?
In this mini-lesson, the kids discover how butterflies’ colors can help them blend into their habitat or scare away predators. In the activity, Paper Butterflies, the kids design their own paper butterflies by choosing colors that will help the butterflies survive.

   Project: Butterfly

Phy Ed Today

~If you haven't done so, please RSVP for graduation. Thanks!
Have a wonderful weekend!

Thursday, May 15

    

 Tuesday, May 15

 Phonemic Awareness 

Blend: fine, these, spoke, skate

  Segment: eve, gave, code, shine

Visual Drill

      Graphemes: o (short, long), i (short, long), a (short, long) nk, ng, wh, ph, ch, th, sh, ck, ff, ll, ss, zz, s (s, z) u, e 
Auditory Drill
Phonemes: o (long), a (long), i (long), nk, ng, ch, th (voiced/unvoiced) sh, k (c, k, ck), u, e

Blending Drill 

sun to stun to stunk to stung to strung to strong to string to sting to sing to sink to sank 
to sunk to chunk to chunks to hunks to honks to honk to Hank to thank
New Concept   
 Reading and spelling with the VCe/E_E pattern.

KinderLiteracy: Butterflies
The kids will help answer these text-dependent questions:

Writer's Workshop: Field Trip

The kids will be writing about their trip yesterday. Where did we go? What did you do there? What was your favorite thing to do?

 Literacy Jobs 

Music Today

 KinderMath: Reading Bar Graphs (Skittle Math)
The kids will sort their Skittles, tally them up, and then transfer their data onto their bar graph. Once their graph is completed, they will compile the data to analyze the graph asking these questions: “Which has the most? Least? How many more? How many fewer?”     

Library
Today is the Sucker Pull for anyone who has all their library books returned!

~The Wednesday envelope will come home with your child today.
~We sure had fun yesterday! A BIG thank you to all our volunteers who were able to help!

~Have your child wear green tomorrow for Mental Health Awareness month.

Wednesday, May 14

  

Wednesday, May 14

Look out Be with Me Playseum and Rock Park, we have some SUPER excited kindergarteners ready to have some fun!

~The Wednesday envelope will be sent home tomorrow. 
~The book order is due today...Order here.  
~Tomorrow, the Cheeseburger Sliders WILL NOT be available.  Instead, they will be replaced with Nachos.
~Again, all kindergarteners will participate in Track & Field Day for about 1 1/2 hours that morning. We will resume our normal day after. 
~Although our kindergarten graduation (June 3) is in the morning, the kids will remain at school for the remainder of the day. Be sure to RSVP if you haven't done so!
~The rest of that week will be filled with a lot of fun activities until our last day, June 5. 

Tuesday, May 13

 Tuesday, May 13

Late Start!

Word Work with Manipulative Letters  

rod to rode to rope to hope to hop to mop to mope to mode to code to cope to nope to note to vote 

 Irregular Words: there, where, who, by, my

                Read: The rope fell in the hole.

                                       Cole is on the phone with Dave.

                                        My home is close to those lakes.

Spell: We rode the bikes home.

                                           Do you see a note from Hank?
                                          The phone rang and woke them up.

KinderLiteracy: Butterflies

We'll discuss these vocabulary words (nectar, chrysalis, migration, instinct, generation) and answer these questions:

1) Who is the author? What is their job?

2) What is one fact we heard from the book?

Literacy Jobs 

Music Today

 Irish Pride Celebration today at 10:20.

 Students of the month for April will be recognized as well as any new students to our school. The new character word for the month will be introduced: courage. We'll end the celebration by singing our Irish Pride song.

~The book order is due tomorrow. This will be the last order for the year...Order here.  

~It was fun celebrating Paige yesterday!

~ The kids will be wearing their purple tie-dye shirt tomorrow...I have them at school. 
~Be sure to have them wear shoes with socks. An extra labeled water bottle and sunscreen are strongly encouraged since it will be so warm and sunny playing at the park!