May 26, 2023

 

Dear Families,

We have been super busy here at school finishing up our Tiger Mission in Thailand and deciding if the hypothesis was true or false (ask your student what they believe the hypothesis to be). 

We have been working a lot with the life cycle of a frog as well as farm and plant studies. The world is waking up!

Assessments begin next week as we head into the last couple of weeks of kindergarten and begin thinking about first grade! Oh my!

Have a wonderful long weekend and please be safe! 

Upcoming Events

May 29- No School Memorial Day

June 22- Last day of school- 1/2 day-dismissal @ noon 

Weekly newsletter on a Tuesday???

 

Hello!

Yes, this is the newsletter for the week. Early for 2 reasons. 

1. Art Show and STEAM night here @ WCS this Thursday.

Lots of stuff going on Thursday from 5-7. Fun for the whole family. Along with the art show, we will have activities in the gym, cafeteria, and out on the playground. In the cafeteria, we will have tin foil boat making, Lego Pictionary, a Slime making station, Toothpick marshmallow 3-D structures, and plankton races. In the gym will be paper airplane making, a mirror drawing challenge, a microscope station, Lego simple machine making, and a K'nex and Zometool building station. Outside we will have sidewalk chalk, Alka-Seltzer rockets, Baking soda volcanoes, Coke and Mentos explosions, and Bubbles in the field! We will also have fun raffles going on in the front hallway to help pay for all the consumables used during the night. 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^HOW FUN^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

2. I will have a substitute on both Thursday and Friday as Mrs. Plummer and I prepare to meet our next year's kindergarten students. 

Time is getting short and my heart is starting to get heavy. Only 25 school days are left and I'm SO not ready to say goodbye. These small people are the best and make my heart smile~ 

Enjoy the rest of your week and have a wonderful weekend! 

Sarah 

May 12, 2023

 

What a lovely week of weather this has been! Let's hope it continues. Playing outside without jackets has become our new favorite thing! 

Evelyn has shared her tadpoles with us and I'm sure I have not ever seen tadpoles this large. They are so interesting and fun to observe! 

Sending a very Happy Mother's Day to all of you Moms out there! I hope your day is special~

We have finished our third and final mission with Go-2 Science. Beth and Curtis are in Thailand to study tigers. We have collected all of the evidence for this mission and now we are tasked with analyzing it and deciding if our hypothesis is true or false. Is there a resident population of tigers living in HKK or not? We will let you know what we think next week! 

We are continuing to practice reading like we are talking instead of word by word and making those sight words more automatic so we don't trip over them when reading our stories.  We also have read many books about animals that hatch from an egg and books about our 5 senses. We are amazing readers!

In writing we have been focused on writing prompts about farm animals, eggs, and our Go2Science mission. We have had too many friends absent for us to begin the How-To unit, so we will head there next week. 

    In math we are working with teen numbers, formation of numbers, addition and subtraction practice, graphing pets, counting and number recognition through graphing , solving number problems, and continuing our calendar routines. Our routines at calendar time include; counting to the calendar number of the day, weather observations, tracking the number of days we have been in school, patterned 10 frames, tally marks, money, and days of the week. 

Upcoming Events:

May 18 & 19 WE DO HAVE SCHOOL-there was an administrative change for this and kindergarten WILL be in school those days

May 29- Memorial Day- No School