Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all of our wonderful mother's and wonderful grandmother's!  I hope you all are enjoying a very special day and being treated like queens! :)  This week we worked hard on our Mother's Day gifts.  We hope that you enjoy them.  The students had fun writing about their wonderful mom's.  We enjoyed hearing about all the wonderful things you do with your children!  We also brainstormed a list of ways we can help our mom's and came up with a list of responsibilities  we can do to help our mom's since they do so much for us.  The students decided on the ones that would work best for them and we added them to their clips.  They are going to put them on their "to do" list each day and then once they are complete they will move them to the "done" side.  This is a gift that can be used not only on Mother's Day but all year long.  We hope you enjoy! :)    We can't thank you all enough for all that you do to help our class each day.  We couldn't do it without you!  You all are the BEST!!!

We also continued working on our bare books this week.  You all are in for a treat at our upcoming bare book sharing.  The students are hard at work doing lots of writing and illustrating in their books. Prepare to be amazed!  We have also been continuing with our assessments and they have been going very well.  It is so wonderful to see all the growth each student is making.

Can you believe we are down to the last ten days of kindergarten?  On Friday we began our traditional balloon pop count down.  Each day we will pop a balloon as we count down the days of school.  Inside is a special "something" that we will do the next day.  We popped the first balloon on Friday and found out we will get to play with shaving cream on the tables on Monday.  Hooray!  Some other examples of things we will be doing are bring a stuffed animal to school, dance party, show and tell, etc.  We will let you know ahead of time if your child needs to bring a stuffed animal or a show and tell item to school so don't worry! :)  The students are very excited about this!

Tuesday is our kindergarten QU wedding.  We will do a special lesson on QU on Monday and then celebrate with a special wedding ceremony (students only) on Tuesday.  Your child may wear fancy clothes to school on Tuesday to celebrate.  Please send extra clothes for them to change into if they would like for after the ceremony.  We will be going outside to play later and doing regular art activities and we would not want to mess up any special clothes.  :)  Huge thanks to Cynthia Patterson for making our QU wedding cake!  We can't wait!

Scholastic is holding a BOGO Book Fair in our Elementary Gym.  Our class will attend on May 22 from 9:30-10:00.  If you would like for your child to purchase any books please send money with your child on this day.  This is a great way to stock up on summer books!

Upcoming Events

May 15 - QU Wedding

May 18 - No School 

May 22 - Scholastic Book Fair BOGO 9:30-10:00 Elem Gym

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 

State of the School Address/Volunteer Appreciation 9:30 am and 7:00 pm HS Black Box

May 30 - Last Day of School