News for the Week of May 6-10

News for the Week of May 6-10

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

 

 

 

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