May 19-23, 2025

This book tells the story of a young girl named Lydia who brings her love of gardening to the big city where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim when her father loses his job.

Writing

Earth Day Writing

I can help the planet by picking up the Earth. 

Making sure you don't use too much paper.  

Pick up more plastic bags.

I can help the planet by you can pick up trash to help the Earth.  You can try to throw away more recycle.

I can help the planet by picking up trash.  Don't waste water.

I can help the planet by recycling more plastic.

Quiet Time Choice: Earth Day Word Search.

Math

3D Shapes (cubes)

Stations

Red word work: independent practice.

On Tuesday morning before recess the children learned about the NWEA reading assessment on their iPad.  Later that day they took the assessment.  

She is on her iPad listening to sentences and choosing the best response.

The children did well.

A read aloud on Tuesday.

Wednesday evenings Art Walk!

Thank you to all who were able to come see the children's artwork!

He is sharing his hanging jelly fish!

Each kindergarten student had one or two pieces of artwork on display.

Several hundred pieces of kindergarten artwork to enjoy!

Math

3D Shapes

Adding the rectangular prism.

Math 

Sorting 3D shapes with the rectangular prism added.

Math

Independent rectangular prism practice work.

Math

Reading their I See Shapes book.

Working in her Heggerty phonics book.

Stations

Red word search.

Centers

Puzzles: 200 piece.

Centers

Writing & Drawing 

Working through practice examples of the NWEA Math assessment.

Listening and solving a subtraction story.

NWEA Math Assessment is taken on the iPad.

All students took the assessment on Thursday morning.  They did well.

Highlights search, a quiet choice for those finished with their NWEA assessment.

Writing

Creating a birthday page to go in the next birthday book.

The children are creating books for the summer birthdays.

This one is for a June birthday.

I hope you get to go to Disney World.

I hope you get a stuffy cat and a dress.

I hope you get a terrarium.

I hope you get a Pokemon stuffy.

I hope you get a Pokemon dress.

Phonics

Long i.

Stations

Reading group with Mrs. Cornell.

Comprehension work.

Read the passage and draw a line to the picture that best matches.

Stations

Independent work: color by beginning blend (br, tr, dr, and gr).

We read and discussed what is celebrated on Memorial Day.

Handwriting

Capital C & capital O formation.

K for Me Read Aloud

As part of the Our Earth unit we focused on this book about a young Mayan girl who is not allowed to use her mother's thread to weave, so she comes up with the idea of repurposing plastic bags to create colorful weavings.  Several children said how much they enjoyed this story.

Centers

Art Table

Paper Weaving

Weaving was a hit! We will work more on these this week.

This Week:

Continuing Week 28 Heggerty Phonics

Tuesday: Gym (send sneakers please)

Thursday: Library Book Return (please send all books back to school, thanks).

You can help by:

1. Sending your child's Home/School Folder every day now until the end of the school year. I will be sending things home daily, right up until the last day.  

2. Arriving to school on time whenever possible.  

School officially starts at 8:35 am.  

We start announcements at 8:45 am, thank you!