We’ve had another fun and busy week in Room 115! We enjoyed releasing our butterflies today. We managed to find a five minute chunk of time without too much rain to let them go!
We have been learning about the life cycle of a frog this week and made frog puppets that we used to act out the song, “Five Green and Speckled Frogs.” We also talked about the difference between living and non-living things.
One of our art projects this week was drawing our self-portraits with crayons, just like we did at the Kindergarten Orientation at the beginning of the year. We will compare these new self-portraits with those from the beginning of the year. I’m sure students will be amazed when they see both sets of pictures. We talked a lot about the progress we have made all year and about how we feel now that we have completed almost a whole year of school. Your child’s self-portraits will be posted on his/her SeeSaw account next week. Make sure you check them out!
The students have all finished at least one narrative piece of writing and some have written even more! We have been conferencing with students a couple of times a week to focus on different writing skills. Students are doing a much better job with spaces, punctuation, and adding details to their writing and pictures. Students will get to pick one of their stories for me to “publish!”
We have almost finished our topic in math on shapes and will be starting a new topic on measurement in another week. It is always a fun one for students. It will actually be our final math topic for Kindergarten! After we finish that one in a couple of weeks, we will start some “Step Up to First Grade” lessons!
We will start preparing for our trip to the Swan Boats in Boston on Tuesday, June 4th. We will be reading Make Way for Ducklings and the children will be learning a bit about Boston and the walk we will be taking. We will be creating a three-dimensional map showing the Commons, the Public Gardens and the area around the State House. If you have any empty food boxes (cereal, mac and cheese, crackers, etc.) that you could donate, we would appreciate them! They will be used for the buildings on our map. We could still use large brown paper bags with handles.
Information went home today about our field trip to Boston. The trip will cost $3 for students and $3.50 for parents. If you are interested in chaperoning on this trip, please let me know and send in the money along with the money and permission slip for your child ($6.50 total). Checks can be made payable to Burlington Public Schools. You can send cash but exact amounts are helpful.
We will be going to the library on Wednesday. Please be sure your child returns his/her library book by then.
Have a great weekend!
Melanie Duncan
Final Used Bookstore for the Year: Parents Invited!
Hundreds of new titles have been resupplied in the collection. Many popular series. The final bookstore for this year will be on Wednesday, June 5th at 8:25 AM. This is the only used bookstore of the year that parents are invited to join their children. Please come and help your child pick out a pile of books for their summer reading. All books are 25 cents, or you can clean out those bookshelves at home and trade in your children's books (in good condition) for different ones. No adult books or board books please. We also take children's magazines. As always, any donations are appreciated. Send donations to the front office to the attention of Mrs. Murphy.
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