Where does the time go?!! I can't believe that it is mid-May with only a little more than a month of school left to go! We have been learning a lot about nature, including plants, insects, life cycles, and woodland animals.
In another week or so we will start learning about Boston and some of the places we will see on our next field trip. Information about the Boston Swan Boats trip will be going home soon. We are planning to go on Tuesday, June 4th. If you are interested in chaperoning this trip, please let me know.
We have been learning more about butterflies and other insects this week. All of our caterpillars have turned into chrysalises and will hopefully turn into butterflies really soon! We spent time this week drawing and labeling the life cycle of a butterfly and started to do the same for frogs today! It’s exciting to see some real life cycles right in our own classroom! We made butterflies to add to our giant flowers and we also made dragonflies to decorate a dragonfly poem. Spring has definitely sprung in Room 115!
We have been working with shapes in math. We even went on a shape hunt inside and outside of the school and talked about the shapes that are all around us. We have almost finished our unit on the position and location of objects. The concepts have been more of a review for the students so we have been trying to come up with some fun and creative ways to practice them. We made a pretend minivan earlier today and used position words to describe where everyone was sitting. Then we “traveled” to the beach, Mrs. Sullivan’s house, and to the ice cream store! It was fun to see the students using their imaginations while also using great math vocabulary! We also made ladybug books that described the position and location of a ladybug. These will go home next week.
We will be starting our last two Kindergarten math topics during the next few weeks and will be doing some Step Up to First Grade Math Lessons after that along with some other fun math activities. Please continue to work with your child on their subtraction fluency facts to five (5-3=2, 4-1=3, etc.). I will start testing them soon! The goal is for students to tell me the answers within three seconds. I would also encourage you to work with your child on counting to 100 by 1s and 10s and practice recognizing and writing numbers to 20. Those teen numbers are tricky! Don’t forget about the sight words too! I’ve been busy assessing students on all sorts of things this week and will continue into the next week or two. I’m impressed with how far they have come this year!
We will be visiting the library on Wednesday. Please be sure to send back your child’s library book by then.
Also, please be sure to send your child to school each day with a sweatshirt/jacket. We go to recess at 9:30am so it is often pretty chilly, even if it is supposed to get warmer later in the day.
Students planted pumpkin seeds a couple of weeks ago and they have grown quite a bit! We sent them home in brown paper bags today. They should be watered every couple of days. It is safe to plant them in the ground during the next week or so.
Mrs. Sullivan and I enjoyed the Teacher Appreciation Luncheon on Thursday. Everything was delicious. Thank you to those who participated!
I would like to extend a very Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful mothers in Room 115! We hope the gifts your child gives you will be special and meaningful. You certainly are special people to your children and to us!
Have a great weekend!
Melanie Duncan
PS… We will be making a 3D Map of Boston in our classroom in a couple of weeks and will be using cardboard boxes and other recycled materials. If you have any empty cereal boxes, tissue boxes, cardboard juice/milk cartons, mac and cheese boxes, etc. feel free to send them in! Thanks!
Important dates:
May 27 - Memorial Day (No School)
June 4 - Swan Boats Field Trip
June 17 - Field Day
June 18 - Field Day Rain Date
Simonds Park Field Trip
June 19 - Simonds Park Rain Date
June 20 - Last Day of School (Half-day dismissal)
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