Terrific Tuesday!

Happy Tuesday!!

It has been a great week so far! We are reviewing and sharpening our skills of the sounds Qq, Zz, Jj, Yy and the sight words with, me, what, my, and where. Today, we spent time reading and blending sounds and writing words.  In reading group, we worked on segmenting the sounds in a word, blending sounds to make words and also read our readers.  At the parent helper rotation, we worked on subtraction with Pete the Cats Buttons, and we listened to a fictional story about a shark.

In math, we are also focusing on the students' fluency for subtraction and addition, as well as, drawing story problems and writing number sentences that match.

It has been a fun week for Isopods in science!  Yesterday, we had our Pill Bugs and Sow Bugs out for a race and the Sow Bugs won!  Pill Bugs are known as the Roly Poly, so we had a lot of fun holding those!  Today, we observed, compared and contrasted our Isopods.  

Updates and Reminders:

1. If you and your child filled out the reading log to earn a Silverwood ticket, those are coming home in a white envelope tomorrow (Wednesday).  Please check your students backpack, and please treat these tickets like you would cash.  There are not any replacement tickets if your ticket is lost. 
2. Art-A-Baloo portfolios will be coming home later this week as well!  I can't wait for you to see all the art your child has created this year!
3. I am printing the rest of our pictures this week for the Memory Books, so if you haven't emailed me your child's field trip picture from December, please email it to me by Friday.  Thank you! 
4. I sent out Royal Reader emails for the students that have summer birthdays, please email me and let me know if that time and day works for you if you haven't yet.
5. Please return your child's permission form for our Field Trip next Thursday, May 28th!
6. Science Fest is June 3rd, from 6-8 PM.  Tour around the school and see what cool things are happening in Science at each grade level.
7. Our Spring Concert is Tuesday, June 9th at 6:30 PM
8. June 11th!!  Last Day of Kindergarten, "Ticket to First Grade" with Mr. Hoglund and "Snacknic" with Parents!  More info will come home later this week!!!
9. Take Home Books and Library books are due Thursday.
10. Homework is due Friday.
11. No School on Monday, May 25th in honor of Memorial Day!  

Whew!  So many fun things happening in Kindergarten these last few weeks!  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thank you!

Happy Trails!

Mrs. Wittwer

Happy Tuesday!

This week, our letter of the week is Yy, which makes the /yee/ sound.  Our sight words this week are "where" and "me."  Yesterday, we had a blast with worms!  Each student held a night crawler or a red worm if they wanted to.  We looked at the body parts and observed how they moved.  This whole week we are learning about worms and what they do!  

Today, we started our day with decorating and coloring a memory book page, then writing the capital Q and lowercase q, calendar, and daily news.  During reading groups we worked on blending and sounding out words with our letter of the week.  We cut, glued and colored our "ball of yarn" into our ABC book and listened to "Mother, You're The Best..." in honor of Mother's Day.  After reading groups, in math we worked on taking apart numbers to find the two parts that make up that number.  This week we are still working on subtraction using number bonds, and number sentences.  We finished up our day with practicing our songs for our end of the year concert with Mrs. Longmeier's class. 

Meet the Principal Finalists on May 29th!  

You are invited to attend an open forum for our Prairie View community to meet our new PV Principal candidates on Friday, May 29th from 3:30-4:30 PM in the PV Cafeteria. Candidate #1 will be with our community members from 3:30-4:00 and Candidate #2 will be available from 4:00-4:30 PM to answer any questions you may have. We hope that you will be able to join us! 

Reminders:

1. Homework Folders went home Monday and are due back on Friday.  In your student's homework folder is the permission form for our Field Trip at the end of the month.  Please return this when you can.
2. Thursday:  Take Home Book exchange day, so please send in a note with your child's book.  Also, Library books are due!    

Happy Trails!

Mrs. Wittwer

Thursday!

Happy (Sunny) Thursday!

We started our day with a math sprint, and then we worked on a super-special gift for Mother's Day! Most gifts were taken home today, a few will be sent home tomorrow. We then transitioned to reading groups, where kiddos worked on initial sounds, reading, ABC books, and listening.  We then worked on math subtraction sentences and number bonds.  Then we continued our day with science, reading all about worms.  We ended our day with a short recess in the beautiful sunshine!

Important Information:

1. The students have P.E., music, and library tomorrow!

2. Library books are due (if they weren't turned in today).

3. Homework folders are due tomorrow. Please be sure your child's HW is turned in with their folder. I am looking forward to reading all the kiddos' stories!

4. Our spring field trip is scheduled for Thursday, May 28th. We will be going to Sky Prairie Park. Parents and younger siblings are welcome to meet us there! Permission slips will go home next week on Monday.

5. Our end of Kindergarten program is scheduled for June 9th at 6:30pm. Please feel free to bring your other kiddos, invite grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. It's sure to be a fun (and cute) show!

Happy Cinco De Mayo!

Happy Cinco De Mayo!

This week has been a super fun packed week already!  This week our focus is on the letter Jj this week and the sight words "with" and "my".  Tomorrow we will also introduce the letter Qq!

In Math, we are now changing our focus from addition to subtraction. We have been practicing how to "take away" objects and writing a matching subtraction sentence. It's been really fun to watch the students acquire a stronger knowledge of addition and subtraction these past few weeks. 

Yesterday, we had snail races! The students observed the land snails and predicted who would win the race while using our science vocabulary.  It was so fun to see the students watch the snail races!  As you can imagine, the races are kind of slow, but very fun and interesting all the same!  Yesterday, students also had the opportunity to hold a land snail in their hand!

Today, we observed water snails! Once we discussed the characteristics of the water snails, we discussed the similarities and differences between the land snails and the water snails. They are very interesting and cute creatures!

 

Reminders: 

1. Please turn in any Spirit Pack paperwork you have for our Technology Fund Run.  Please see this link to the PTO website if you have any questions or need to print out the form.  http://pvpto.digitalpto.com/2015/04/30/announcement-get-your-spirit-pack-by-may-11th/

2. Thursday is our next Take Home book exchange day!  Also, MoMMa is also from 6-8 and dessert will be served!

3.  Students are writing a new story this week for homework, if you have any questions, please email me!  :)

   

Have a great night!