MAY ALREADY!!!!!

We are in serious "let's get things done mode" from now until the end of the school year! I can't believe it is May already and there are only 14 school days left with my friends and then they will be in first grade!! Oh boy oh boy- do we have a lot to do!!!!

This week we will be talking about our end of the year program that will be held on the last day of school- Thursday, May 21st in the afternoon - I am thinking it will be around 2:30 but still need to double check availability of a few things first and finalize our speaking parts and songs- it sure is hard to narrow down our favorite songs  because we have too many, so we are not for sure how long our program will be yet! Last week we were able to see the band and strings practice concert and this week we will get to watch the chorus practice concert! I hope my friends get more excited about our program after this week!!! I promise I will send out exact details in a note home! Again we will be having our program with Mrs. Schroeder's class like we did for our holiday program!
Also this week we will be going to the park for lunch as long as the weather cooperates! A note will be sent home with exact times on Wednesday or Thursday- although I am thinking we will be down at the park around 11:15 if you would like to meet us there!

In literacy we will be starting week 2 of unit 10 and will be discussing how things are alike and how they are different! Our last two words we will learn are "come" and "does" and we will be focusing on the long e vowel sound. Our vocabulary words are sort, familiar, perfect, endless, and experiment. We will be reading "All Kinds Of Families", "The Perfect Color", "Good For You", and "We Come on Time". We will be focusing a lot on comprehension and remembering key details from the story and asking and answering questions as we read to get ready for all of our 4th quarter assessments!! During guided reading your child will either read "My Box" or "Let's Make a Band".

In math we will continue to learn more about coins and their value as well as start talking about telling time to the hour! There are quite a few workbook pages that we are not getting to because they are not on the test so please know I will be sending home some papers for you to do in the summer that will help your child get ready for first grade!

We finished up our plant unit and this week we will start our social studies unit on Nebraska and where we live!!! We will talk about cities, states, countries, and continents! We will also learn a lot about the state that we live in and some of our very own state symbols which I know my friends will love learning about!!! It is sure to be another super great, busy week in kindergarten!!!