Dates to Remember:

Monday, May 27 – No school. Memorial Day

Tuesday, May 28- There will be a sub in my classroom for a short period of time. Teachers will have in-house meetings/planning throughout the day.

Wednesday, May 29 – We will prepare for the NWEA math assessment on Thursday.

Thursday, May 30 – In the afternoon students will take the NWEA math assessment and later we will attend the Brainstormer’s Writing Assembly.

Friday, May 31 – Students will take the EOY Math Assessment for Kindergarten. We will also take the last spelling test of the year. Final day for all library books to be returned.

Upcoming vacation days; no school on: 

Monday, June 3

Tuesday, June 4

Wednesday, June 5

Friday, June 7 – Donuts for Dads in honor of Father’s Day. Held from 7:45 am – 8:45 am. Dad’s can come by our classroom and pick up a special remembrance for Father’s Day.

Monday, June 10 – Howard Field Day. More information will follow.

Wednesday, June 12 – Class/Family Year End Picnic  11-12:30 pm. More information will follow with a donation list for picnic.

Friday, June 14 – Last Day of School – Half day.

Peek at the Week:

Last week of Spelling words – “et” word family – pet, set, bet, met, wet, fret, let, get, net. Sight word – were

Daily Five/Literacy – review comprehension strategies and review word parts, beginnings, endings and blends.

Writing – Non-fiction unit on Ocean Animals.

Math – Finishing up with Module 6 Geography. Lessons 5-8.

Composing and Decomposing Shapes. Lesson 5 – Compose flat shapes using pattern blocks. Lesson 6 Decompose flat shapes into two or more shapes. Lesson 7 Compose simple shapes to form a larger shape described by an outline. Lesson 8 Project.

Enjoy your long weekend! Happy Memorial Day!!

Mrs. Polgar

 

Dates to Remember:

Monday, May 20 –  We will take part in the city wide clean -up parade at 9:30 am. If you would like to join us we will be lining up in front of the school at 9:30 am. This year our theme is Dr. Seuss – The Lorax.

Wednesday, May 22 – Library – this will be the final week to check out a book from the library. We will go to the library on Wednesday this week due to their not being school on Friday. Next week all books are to be returned.

I will be out in the morning on Wednesday and return in the afternoon.

Thursday, May 23 – We will take the spelling test on Thursday.

Friday, May 24 – No school

Monday, May 27 – No school

Peek at the Week:

Spelling words – “ug” word family – bug, dug, slug, rug, tug, jug, mug, snug, plug, hug.  Sight word – where

Daily Five/Literacy – reviewing “str” blends – string, stream. Working on fluency in reading and practicing reading smoother. Practicing short fluency passages along with comprehension skills.

Writing – continue informational writing unit on insects.

Social Studies – study Memorial Day. Why do we celebrate this holiday?

Math – new unit on Geometry. Learning about ordinal numbers and constructing a flat shape with ordinal number directions. Building flat shapes with different lengths and sides. Building solid shapes with flat shapes and identifying positional terms with shapes.

Have a great day!

Mrs. Polgar

 

Happy Mother’s Day to all you Amazing Mother’s!! 

Dates to Remember:

Monday, May 13 – Class scheduled for NWEA reading assessment.

Wednesday, May 15 – Late start. School starts an hour later.

Thursday, May 16 – Greenfield Village field trip. Please remember to pack a brown bag disposable lunch for your child. We never know what the weather will be like. So, be sure to check out the weather for the day and dress your child appropriate to the weather. We will be outside all day. If you volunteered to be a class chaperone, please meet in class in the morning for group assignments/plans.

Monday, May 20 – Clean-up Parade. Please save any empty paper towel holders for our parade. We will be using them to make Truffula trees in Dr. Seuss Lorax.

Peek at the Week:

Spelling words – “ub” family – sub, tub, cub, hub, rub, club, stub, scrub.

Sight words – red, blue

Daily Five/Literacy – Correcting grammar by identifying mistakes in sentences and fixing them. Understanding parts of a sentence along with punctuation. Continuing making words with s-blends; spl, spr (splash, spring)

Writing – This week we will start a new informational writing unit on insects.

Math – Representing teen number compositions and decompositions as addition sentences.

Representing teen number decompositions as 10 ones and some ones, and find a hidden part.

Decomposing teen numbers into 10 ones and some ones and composing 10 ones and some ones into a teen number.

Social Studies – Identifying a public issue and how to resolve it. Environmental issues with our Earth.

Have a great day!!

Mrs. Polgar

 

 

Thank you all for the flowers, cards, and the beautiful bulletin board outside our classroom for Teacher’s Appreciation Week. I have been truly blessed this year with the sweetest and kindest Kindergarten class! 

Dates to Remember:

This week we will prepare for the upcoming NWEA assessments. We are scheduled to take the reading assessment on Monday, May 13. Refer to my previous Blog post for sites to prepare for the NWEA.

I have a few more DRA assessments to do this week and I will be finished. Hooray!! These assessments are very time consuming because I have to test each student individually. As a student passes a reading level I have to continue testing to the next level. The good news is all students are at grade level or above grade level for end of year reading goals.

Book bags did not go home last week as I was doing DRA reading assessments. If a book bag does not go home have your child go to Raz Kids for reading enrichment.

Friday, May 10 – Field Trip Permission slips/money to Greenfield Village are due. 

Thursday, May 16 – Greenfield Village Trip – If you signed up to chaperone for a group of students, please meet in the morning for the field trip information and group assignments. The bus will leave between 9:00-9:10 am. Students will ride the bus and parents will meet us at the village. If you are meeting us at the village, please meet at the entrance to the ticket booths. Remember to pack a brown bag lunch for your child.

Parents can bring their family and meet us at the village. You can also chaperone just your child at the village. Please indicate on permission slip.However, all students must ride on bus to village and back to school on bus.

Peek at the Week:

Spelling words – “og” word family – log, dog, frog, jog, clog, smog, fog.

Sight words – some, so, from.

Daily Five/Literacy – Focus on identifying problems/solutions in stories. Identifying key information in informational text. Learning new vocabulary in informational text. Reviewing parts of speech, nouns, verbs, adjectives, word endings, di-graphs, vowel teams.

Writing – Informational writing unit on Frogs. Students will write about interesting facts about frogs with various sources of information on frogs.

Math – students will extend the Say Ten Way and regular count sequence to 100. Practice counting up and down by tens to 100. Count within tens by ones. Count across tens when counting by ones to 40. Count across tens by ones to 100 with or without objects.

Science – study how pollution effects our Earth. We will be having a clean up parade on Monday, May 20 and the class will be walking in the parade with the theme of Dr. Seuss Lorax. We will need paper towel holders for our Truffela Trees from the Lorax. So, don’t throw out or recycle your paper towel holders (tubes). Save them and bring them to school for our parade.

Have a great sunny day!

Mrs. Polgar