June 16, 2023

 

Dear Families, 

Thank you for such a wonderful year in kindergarten! We have reached the end of our time together and I want to tell you how honored I am to have been able to spend every day with your precious children. 

I will still see them in the hallway and on the playground. I will watch them grow from afar. I am a cheerleader forever for them! 

Have a safe and fun summer~Best to you all! 

Sarah

Upcoming Events

June 19- No School- Juneteenth

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

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

April 28, 2023

 

What fun to finally be able to be dancing in the sunshine! Now for some heat?

This week has been filled with our weather unit we have started in science. We are learning all about different kinds of weather we have and why we experience it. Lot's of multi-syllable vocabulary words are involved! 

Poem In Your Pocket Day was Thursday and we gathered tokens for reading our poems to various people throughout the building. Ask how many tokens your child gathered yesterday! 

We continued our third and final mission with Go-2 Science. Beth and Curtis are in Thailand to study tigers. We are learning so much about so much!!! This week we collected more evidence to help with our hypothesis. We even got to watch as Beth and Curtis took part in an elephant parade and show. Ask your student what a mahout is and if they would like to be one! 

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 spring books as well as weather books. We are becoming amazing readers!

    In writing we are working on a piece about April Vacation and will edit this final narrative writing piece. Next week we will begin our How-To writing unit. This year is moving too fast for me~

    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

 

What a WONDERFUL week it has been in Kindergarten!!! 

Thank you for all of the cuteness you made happen at our concert~they were all so excited and nervous and proud. Your willingness to make that happen is what I love about what I do! 

We have started our next (and final) mission with Go2Science. We have landed in Thailand to study tigers. The hypothesis for this mission is; "There is a resident population in Huai Kha Khaeng (HKK) Wildlife Sanctuary in Thailand". Some of the evidence we will be collecting is tracks, prey, babies, scratch marks, poop, spray, and other things (like hearing without seeing). 

We continued to work through  our reading, writing, and math goals.

We ate through the rainbow this week as the entire school ate such healthy and marvelous snacks provided by our PTA~(they are fantastic). Some of your students are experts at eating through the rainbow! 

Also, as the weather shifted this week, it has been difficult to be inside. I hope you all have a splendid vacation full of fun and family! Enjoy~~~

 

April 6, 2023

Hello All!

This is coming to you a day early. I have had the stomach flu for the past 14 days and am finally feeling better, but I feel very much behind the 8-ball. This is just for 2 quick reminders:

Tonight: Thursday April 6th there will be a fun-filled evening at Morse high School. The title of the event is: STEM CITY and it goes from 5 pm to 7 pm tonight. Check the WCS website for more details!

Kindergarten and 2nd Grade Concert: Tuesday April 11th at 6 pm here at WCS!

Hoppy Easter to you all~Sarah