May 19th-23rd

Hello!

Our play was a success! Thank you for practicing with your child and encouraging them throughout the whole process. They were so proud of themselves. :)

This week we are now focusing on bare books. We have picked out our top 5 books to include in our bare books and we are working on putting the finishing touches on them. We cannot wait to reveal them at the Author's Tea next week (May 29th at 1:30 in our room).

Math:
We have been working on skip counting. We have been skip counting by several numbers to prepare for first grade (gasp!). You may have seen an under the sea skip counting by 5 sheet come home. This was hard but we are still learning! We are doing many exercises to help us learn how to skip count by 10's, 5's, 2's etc. We are jumping, hoping, clapping and dancing as we count. Any time we can move our bodies it helps us learn the information! We also worked on range cards, skip counting by 10's and several addition/subtraction equations. The past 2 days we have been rotating through math stations to get all of our work done and it has worked out well!

Reading/Writing:
This week we talked about writing in something other than our writer's workshop books. Each morning we are writing in our day books. Some mornings we had a prompt but most mornings we got to write/draw whatever we wanted. Writing each day is important next year so we are introducing that now! We also read a lot. We read books, words around the room and reviewed old site words. We are also learning a new stanza each day to an end of the year poem that we read in the pocket chart during reader's workshop.

Even though we are not sending home the little readers anymore (as we are trying to collect them all) we are still reading here at school. We are focusing on the reading strategies we have learned, practicing fluency and checking for comprehension. Please read every day this summer! Read to your child and have your child read to you. This will help us so much next year!

We are allowing the kids to enjoy all their favorite centers the next couple of weeks as we call small groups for bare books. It is so fun to see what the "favorites" are!

The sign up genius that went out last week is for the rest of the year. Feel free to revisit that and sign up where there are empty spots. I will also let everyone know what is needed for the water day event. I have not received that information yet but when I do I will send an email or sign up genius for what we need.


Two reminders for the next couple weeks:

Aquarium Field Trip: May 27th 10:30-2:00 (Please let other parents have a chance to sign up first if you have already been on a field trip with us.)

 
June 3rd: Water Day/End of Year Party

Hugs,
Mrs. Schultz