Thank you! 😊

Ask Your Child About...

1. Identify and spell the words off and take in various texts

2. Explain the main idea and at least three supporting details of a story

3. How PAWsome they are for all the math testing we have had!

4. Our new science unit: plants!

🍎 A special thank you goes out to all of you! I have truly enjoyed teaching every child in our class, and their letters and pictures this week just made everything sweeter! I sure love my Kinders and can't believe the year is almost over! Our class garden has grown with the special additions of your students' flowers. Thank you!

📗 Friendly reminder that Scholastic Book orders will be do by the end of the day Friday, May 17th. This date will ensure that all of our books arrive before the last day of school. There are loads of good books to choose from to help support your reading as a family as well as keep your child reading on their own over the summer! 🌞

📚 This week in reading we took our knowledge of story structure and applied it to finding the main idea. We discussed how to find a main idea and how to be sure it truly is what the author may have been intending for us to gather from their story. To find the main idea we look for a theme that reaches through the entire story (all steps of the structure!), and then check that we have details that support the idea. We realized that if we can find at least three supporting details, it is probably a good conclusion about the story, but if we can only find two or less there might be something bigger than what we are thinking. Continue to help your child discover the main idea of a story by discussing it after you read! You can also relate this to writing by creating some story maps and graphic organizers to help prove (or disprove) your thoughts!

🔢 Math this week consisted of our end of year math assessments. One of these being aMath, which is the assessment each child took at the beginning of the year on the ipad. We took these assessments again and are very proud of our growth! You will receive results at the end of the year in a formal letter (just as we did at conferences). The second assessment we took over several days as it is a multi-page district assessment based on the curriculum. This was a long assessment, but we worked hard and did a great job focusing and trying our best each day!

🌱 Our life science unit has come to an end, with our fish, snails, worms and bugs being given to another teacher who has a much bigger tank and other animals for them to join with. The kids were sad to say goodbye, but understood how this would be better for them. Until the end of the year we will focus on seeds and plants! It is a wonderful time to explore this topic as we can actively grow them in our classroom (as well as at home - as I've heard many of you are doing!). Below is an image of our green bean and sunflower plants that we will be growing until the end of the year! 🌻🌿

🐦 We also found Robin eggs on the playground this week! This was very exciting and we could not believe how luck we were to see such a wonderful spring sign of life! The kiddos did have a hard time remembering to let it be and keep their hands and bodies at a safe distance so we do not disturb the eggs (or break them). If you see animals out and about help your child recognize how to properly observe and enjoy their presence. 😊

💐 Lastly, Happy Mother's Day to all of you AMAZING moms! I am lucky to have such great guardian help from you and could not thank you enough for all that you do for and with your child! I hope you enjoy the weekend and get to relax in your favorite way!