Hello Families!

Happy 36th week of Young 5s!! I am looking forward to a wonderful LAST FULL week of school! Oh my goodness….time has gone by so so fast!

PLEASE plan on bringing your child’s bike on Tuesday at 9AM for the Trike A Thon!

PLEASE plan on joining your child for visiting their Kindergarten classroom and new teacher on Thursday at 2:30!

PLEASE mark your calendars to join us for the Y5 year end celebration on June 13th at 10:30-11:15!

This week we will begin the ABC Countdown to the last day of school. We are going to do 2 letters a day for a couple of weeks. This will be a fun way to review letters and sounds before zooming off to kindergarten!

Monday- Q (Quick feet! We will have a race!)

Tuesday- R (Read to a furry friend! Children can bring in their favorite stuffed toy… I have extras in the room too. 🙂 )

Wednesday- S (Silly Socks! Wear mismatched or silly looking socks to school!)

Thursday-  T (Tell someone thank you with a thank you note!)

Friday- U (We will read to our friends UNDER our tables!)

Reading: This week we will continue to practice the Three Ways to Read a Book as well as we practice identifying features of narrative stories.. We will also practice comparing the experiences of characters within these books.  We will practice the following literacy skills:

• Identifying letters and their sounds.
• Producing pairs of rhyming words. (ex. dish/wish)
• Reading emergent level texts and knowing where to begin reading on the page.
• Blending the beginning sound with the rime in words from the -am family (ex. ram, jam)
• Stretching for the sounds in three letter words and identifying the letter that makes the sounds in the beginning, middle, and end of the word..
• Identifying the sight words (three) and (you). (review)
• Counting syllables in words.

Please review: All upper and lowercase letters and practice writing them! Please review the following sight words: a, the, see, to, like, my, you, I, it, in, said, for, am, make, here, can, is, up, do, big, little, yes, have, jump, she, did, he, red, so, not, go, green, will, him, down, find, good, please, come, one, two, has, very, us, come.

Math: We will work on counting to 100 and recognizing/writing numbers and their quantities 1 to 20. We will begin a new math unit on addition and subtraction to 10!!! Please encourage your child to count, show the quantity to match numbers, and talk about addition and subtraction stories with objects.

Science: We will continue our science unit about Ecosystems. We will continue to discuss what living and non-living mean as we identify what makes something living. This week we are will learn more about animal habitats.

Social Studies:  We will continue a unit called “Where am I”. We will review position words such as up, down in, out, beside, in between. We are also working with a program called Second Step. This program helps us learn about rules, social skills, and how to handle our emotions. This week we will practice how to be a problem solver. We will also discuss symbols of America such as the American Flag and the Bald Eagle.

Writing: We will focus on narrative writing. This is writing that tells a story. The students will work on writing that tells about an event they experienced featuring a beginning, middle, and end.                                                                                                                                                 

Thank you for all you do! Have an awesome week!~Mrs. Mehrhof