May 2nd-May 6th

IMPORTANT DATES:

Ocean Play: May 12th at 11:00 in the middle school black box
Author's Tea/Bare Book Reveal: May 24th at 1:00
Kindergarten Water Day: May 30th

**Everyone's adventures with Shelly and Stripey have been so neat! Thanks for taking great care of them. :)

Quick Weekly Update:

This week we finished our handwriting books (yay!), worked hard on publishing our bare books, learned a new dance for the ending of the oceans play and practiced our play/play songs.

Reading: We got new leveled readers and learned a new reading strategy. We learned to look for patterns in our books and look for words that have been repeated on each page (or in the title) so that we don't have to start all the way over when sounding out words. Please return these books FRIDAY.

Math: We learned two new games this week-

1. Build and Remove: Choose a number and build it with unifix cubes. Remove 1 cube and record the answer, 2 cubes and record the answer and 3 cubes and record the answer. Eventually work up to building the cube tower and doing the math before removing the cubes and then checking your answer by using the tower.
2. Pattern Block Grab: Choose a handful of pattern blocks out of a bucket. Build something neat with the pile and record how many pattern blocks you used to build your creation. Pattern blocks are colorful shapes. There are trapezoids, circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, diamonds and hexagons.

We are still learning about the ocean! We plan to build our ocean water bottles on Friday.

Hugs,
Mrs. Schultz