Bravo!

Bravo to all of our actors and actress on a job well done in their performance on Thursday!  I am so very proud of all their hard work.  Each of them did such a great job learning their lines and all of the songs, and to top it all off saying them on stage in front of a large audience.  A huge thanks to all of you who helped with the costumes, practicing lines and the celebration after the play.  It was a fun filled day for sure!

This week has been a little unconventional, as we have been working on our play, assessing and working on our bare books.  So, as you can see we have been busy, busy, busy!  We did not do our normal centers this past week, and will not be doing them again this week, as we begin to put the finishing touches on our bare books and of course work on some fabulous Mother's Day surprises. :)  We will however, keep reading books and learning about life in the ocean.

This week in writer's workshop we talked about how when we entered kindergarten many of us could only write our names and how when we drew a picture of ourselves we drew stick figures.  We talked about all we had learned this year and decided that we were going to look at the difference between the beginning and what we can do now.  We had each student draw a picture of him/herself and then write a sentence or more about themselves.  We are going to show students their beginning of kindergarten pictures and their end of kindergarten pictures so that they may see all the growth they have made.  Hooray!

We have been studying lots of letter sounds, blends and digraphs in words and in each child's name when we did Marvelous Me this year.  We have talked a lot about the -sh, -th, -ch, -ou, and -ow sounds, and also what strong man e does to vowels (makes them say their long vowel name). On May 15th we are going to have a special celebration of two very special letters (Q and U).  In kindergarten tradition we are going to have a QU wedding to celebrate the sound /qu/.  Typically in most English words you don't have the letter q unless it is followed by the letter u.  So we "marry" them. :)  This will be a fun celebration in the classroom (children only).  Please have your child wear "dressier" clothes that day to school for our wedding celebration.  They may bring play clothes to change into later if they would like.  We will have a cute little ceremony and celebrate with some cake!  Huge thanks to Cynthia Patterson for volunteering to make our wedding cake! :)   We will be doing some lessons on this in class, but wanted to give you all a heads up on this so you would know what to expect.

Upcoming Events

May 15 - QU Wedding

May 18 - No School 

May 24 - Bare Book sharing, 1:00 in the classroom (parent event)

May 25 - No school 

May 29 - Kindergarten Water Day! 8:30 am- 12:00 pm (volunteers needed...sign up coming soon)

May 30 - Last Day of School