Weekly News and Homework

Please join us for the following events if you are available:

Monday, May 19^th: Character Trait Chapel at 2:25 

May 20^th-May 28^th: Book Fair

Thursday, May 22^nd: TLCS Annual Spring Concert at 7pm in the auditorium.  This year it is called “Take 2,” and includes drama as well.  Attendance is strongly encouraged but not required.  Students should wear “fancy clothes” for this occasion.  Our entire school will sing and perform! Please meet me in front of the kindergarten building at 6:30.

Friday, June 6^th: Last Day of School!  School is out at 12.  We will have a small kindergarten presentation and graduation in our classroom from 10-11 and celebrate with an all-school picnic from 11-12.  Everyone is invited to attend the graduation and picnic!

FYI-- Friday, May 23^rd-Friday, May 30^th: I will be at an out-of-town wedding (Pete's best friend since KINDERGARTEN is getting married to my friend of 15 years!).  Mrs. Dueck, a veteran kindergarten teacher, will be here for me.  Mrs. Deutsch will also be here, of course.

 

This Week’s Homework:

The following assignments should be completed and turned in by Friday:

1.     Practice singing Life’s a Happy Song and Beautiful Things for Thursday’s performance.  Lyrics are attached and you will find links to a YouTube video for each song on our class blog.  

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

3.     Practice reading our sight words every night.

4.     10-20 minutes (or more!) of reading every night with a parent, guardian, or older sibling, etc.  I am collecting Read-at-Home books to make sure I get them all back before the end of the year.  Please continue reading books of your choice every night.  (Every night in the summer, too!!) J

School library books are due every Wednesday morning.

 

This Week’s Focus:

 

Language Arts

This week we will continue learning about word families, digra and preparing for first grade.  We will read many books each day as a class, in small groups,  and independently,  practice reading and writing old and new sight words (good, will, they) with extra emphasis on writing sentences that include these words, write in our journals, and read and write in our small group literacy centers.   

 

Math

In the remaining weeks we will focus on cumulative review, year-end assessments, and 1^st grade readiness.     

 

Bible

This week’s Bible story is Paul Spreads the Gospel.  We will sing Beautiful Things, recite, discuss, write, and illustrate Mark 16:15b, rehearse If Jesus Lived Inside My Heart (your child’s line is in his/her folder today!) for our little graduation day performance, and pray together every day.   

 

Science, Social Studies, Art, and Misc.

Last week’s ocean animal presentations were fantastic!  We learned many fun and interesting facts about a variety of ocean animals.   This week we will begin our physical science unit.  In music class we will continue practicing for the Spring Concert, “Take 2”.  We will also continue to do our team jobs, attend art class, music class, library, computer lab, and PE, explore the classroom during choice time, and focus on friendships and community building.