Friday May 27th, 2011

IMPORTANT DATES
- Monday May 30th:  NO SCHOOL
- Thursday June 2nd: Last Full Day
- Friday June 3rd:  Poetry Palooza at 9:30, dismissal following
   (students may dress up on Friday in "Sunday Best")


What a busy week!  Thank you to everyone who came in last week for our May Crowning, it was wonderful.  I have been trying to upload video of the Kindergarten singing Let It Be.  Hopefully I'll be able to get it posted by the time they go to First Grade. 

For the past two weeks, the students have been very busy writing their insect reports for Dr. Calihan.  Each student chose a different insect on which to write their report.  They found some facts at home for homework and researched more here at school using the computer and our bug books.  They turned out very well!  The Kindergartners will be presenting them this afternoon along with Miss Vier's class.

We celebrated our third and final Publishing Party on Tuesday.  The class voted and we decided to invite our Third Grade reading buddies.  They were a delightful audience.  There was no end to the complimentary things they had to say about all the books.

In connection with our Insect Unit, we read The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle and shared the things that make us grouchy.  They ranged everywhere from crying babies to waiting too long in line.



We also finished our Math book this morning with a review on graphing.  We discussed taking a survey, collecting data and building a graph.  We also talked about different types of graphs; real graphs, picture graphs and bar graphs.  We are almost graphing experts!

Enjoy your holiday weekend!

Friday May 6th, 2011

Happy Mother's Day weekend to all the wonderful mothers of Room 7!  We hope you have an amazing weekend!

Thank you so much for all your help with our new science unit.  We know that it's a little more work than usual homework, but everything we are getting back looks wonderful!  If your child hasn't brought in any of his/her science homework yet, it's not too late!  All of the homework is being kept together in a portfolio and we will still be adding to this portfolio in the coming weeks.  Many of the caterpillars have spun their chrysalises and are ready to be moved into the Butterfly Garden.  Last week, each Kindergartner was asked to draw and label their own butterfly and they look amazing!  As a class, each table had the chance to color and label a large butterfly that we now have displayed on the wall for the remainder of the unit. 

This week we used butterflies to review symmetry.  Butterfly wings are symmetrical, did you know?  We also talked about and dramatized butterflies' roles in pollination.  They are key in getting pollen from one flower to another.  We also read 2 books about butterflies and then discussed what made one a non-fiction story and why the other story was fiction.  Butterflies are everywhere in Kindergarten!


Requests
-  We are in need of forks and spoons for forgotten snacks and lunches, please send some in if you have extras.