Weekly News and Homework

Friday, April 11^th: Jog-a-Thon (our jog time is 8:45-8:55 in the gym)**

** Please send your child to school ready to run this Friday.  We would like all students to wear a plain white shirt with Vroom, Vroom Vomvokids! written on the front.  We will write a tally mark for each lap completed on the back of their shirts with a Sharpie.  They should also wear comfortable pants (or shorts) and tennis shoes.  You may pack a change of clothes for your child to change into afterward if you’d like. 

Language Arts: We published our Rosie’s Walk books on Friday; they are BEAUTIFUL!  We will practice reading them to each other and our buddy class this week then send them home for you to enjoy.  Last week we also made two class ABC books to celebrate the alphabet: Vomvokids’ Kindergarten, An ABC Book and The ABCs of Spring.  This week we will start focusing on consonant blends.  This week is sh.  We will recite our shark and seashell poems, read books about sharks and sheep, make and learn to read our sh books, read, write, and stamp our new sight words (at, must, well), write in our journals, continue our literacy centers, and more!!

Math:  This week we will work on our addition and subtraction facts through ten.  We will count by 1s, 5s, and10s to 100, work with our number of the day (Spanish, tally marks, addition and subtraction problems, etc.), and read various graphs. 

Bible: This week we will begin to read about and discuss Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday.  We will sing along with Wee Sing Bible Songs and Wee Sing More Bible Songs, review Psalms 100: 1-5, and pray together every day.   

Science, Social Studies, Art, and Misc: This month’s themes are conservation, oceans, and Easter.  Later this month (4/29) we will visit the Seymour Center at Long Marine Lab to learn more about the animals in our bay.  We are also keeping an eye on our tadpoles, polliwogs, and chrysalis.  We will continue to do our team jobs, attend art class, music class, library, computer lab, and PE, explore the classroom during choice time, and more!!!

We have a sharing time every Friday.

 

Upcoming Events:

 

Monday, April 7^th-Wednesday, April 9^th: Accreditation Team on TLCS Campus

 

Wednesday, April 9^th: Minimum Day, out at 12.  Free Crosswalk until 3pm

 

Friday, April 11^th: Jog-a-Thon (our jog time is 8:45-8:55 in the gym)

 

April 18^th-April 25^th: No School

 

Tuesday, April 29^th: Field Trip to the Seymour Center at Long Marine Lab.  Our tour is EARLY.  It was the only time available.  Please meet in the classroom at 8am (drivers at 7:50); I hope to leave campus by 8:10.  Thank you!!

 

This Week’s Homework:

The following assignments should be completed by Friday:

1.     Addition Math Dice Game

2.     Spring Vocabulary Worksheet

3.     Write Vroom, Vroom Vomvokids! on the front of a white t-shirt and wear it to school on Friday for our Jog-a-Thon.

4.     2-3 choices from our monthly family activity calendar.

5.     Practice reading our sight words every night.

6.     Ten minutes (or more!) of reading every night with a parent, guardian, or older sibling, etc.  I’m sure your child would love to read the book in his or her small manila folder to you!  Sight words are fun to read together, too.  Reading together every night is VERY important.  Let’s work together to develop a love of books and reading in our children!

School library books are due every Wednesday morning.