Week of June 2-6

Good evening parent and guardians, 

The school year is right around the corner and it is defiantly bitter sweet. I am enjoying these last few days and reminiscing with the students all we have done this year. They have grown so much and have become a big part of my life. Today we made Count Down to First grade chains, only 19 more days! Please feel free to celebrate with your child at home but cutting off a link every school day.

Here is a peak at next week:

Language Arts:

• Unit 6-Week 5-"The house Tony lives in"
• Content Knowledge: Building a House
• Phonological Awareness: Sounds
• Phonics: Decode Words
• Comprehension Skill: Setting
• Exam on Friday
• Conventions: Exclamations
• Handwriting: Write Lowercase Letters
• Words to talk about: architect, electricians, plumbers, painters, landscapers and movers
• Words to read: four, have, they, two, blue, what, sat, had, hug, get, hid, box

Math:

• NO LEVELED ROTATIONS
• Beginning next week we will no longer be switching for Math, all teachers will be having their own students. 
• I will be going over Coins with my whole class
• Practice at home: coin faces (front and back), value and adding coins to 99¢

Science: 

• Unit D-Chapter 7- Matter and Mixtures 
• News letter for this chapter will be going home this Monday with more information
• Chapters covered next week: What are solids like? What are liquids like?

Class news:

• Homework: As the end of the school year winds down, we will be having our own students for most of the day. This means will be creating our own homework packets and they may look different that what your child has been receiving.
• ABC countdown
• This week's letters: D-dance party, E-Exercise, F-friendship/fishes and G-games
• The kids are having a great time and they really did love Game day. My favorite day so far was F-Friendship. I showed pictures of students up on the screen and students went around saying nice things about their friends (it was great, I was one proud teacher!)
• 6/19 Science Expo 5:00-6:00 pm
• 6/25 End of the year celebration- More information to follow soon
• 6/26 Kindergarten promotion @ 10:30 am

School News:

• 6/4- Jump Rope for Hearts 1:30-2:30 pm
• 6/9 PTO meeting 4 pm
• 6/11 Coffee with director 8 am, Family Wed Kindergarten lunch at 11 am
• 6/12 LEGO LAND!!!!
• 6/13 Donuts for Dads 7:15-7:35 (PLEASE RSVP with me if attending)
• 6/19 Science Expo 5:00-6:00 pm
• 6/20 Awards Assembly- last of this school year- Kindergarten 8:00 am
• 6/24 Game Day
• 6/26 Last day of school
• Early dismissal 12:00 pm
• NO after school program
• Kindergarten promotion @ 10:30 am

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the above information please feel free to email me.

Thank you and have a great weekend, 

Miss. Maciel

G for games..

Hello parents and guardians,

So far our ABC count down has been great. Today was F for friendship and we went around the room sharing nice things about all of our class mates (plus the students got to get gold Fishes).
Tomorrow will be G for games. Students are allowed to bring their favorite but appropriate board games to play in class. I also told students they can play any fun games they may have on their iPads or tablets.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email me.
Thank you,
Miss. Maciel

Week of May 27-30

Good morning parents and guardians, 

I hope your 3 day weekend is off to a good start!
I hope you all enjoyed the spring performance. Your kids worked really hard and were beyond excited to perform. If you have any pictures or videos please feel free to send them to me so I may be able to show the class.

Here is a look at our week.

Language arts:

• Unit 6-Week 4-"Alistair and kips great adventure"
• Content Knowledge: Friends Building Together
• Phonological Awareness: Initial and Medial /u/
• Phonics: /u/ Spelled Uu
• Comprehension Skill: Plot
• Conventions: Questions
• Handwriting: Write U and u
• Words to talk about: gathered, distant, drifting, voyage, island and aboard
• Words to read: for, my, of, we, yellow, come, nut, fun, cup, cut, mug and bus
• Weekly exam: Plot (sequencing- first, next, last)

Math:

• Finish unit 19-Money
• Students will be able to pay for things using coins (up to a total of 99¢)
• Students will be able to show different combinations of coins that equal the same value (up to a total value of 99¢)

Social Studies:

• Finish Social Studies- Unit 5 Calendars
• Student must know: months of the year, days of the week

Science:

• Begin Science Expo project
• We held off on beginning the experiment yesterday due to the fact that we had many students absent. I plan on beginning the first part of the project this week.

ABC countdown:

• With the end of the school year approaching our class is participating in an ABC countdown. Everyday we are focusing on one letter and doing an activity around it. 
• Last weeks letters: A-art, B-bubbles and C-cookies
• The activities are meant to be fun but must also be earned. Students will be able to participate in the next day's activities if they end the day on yellow or above. We spoke about this as a class and all agreed it was fair. 

School events:

• Jump Rope for Hearts: Has been rescheduled for June 4 @ 2:30
• May 30- Awards assembly
• June 12- Lego Land trip
• As soon as I am given a final list of students attending I will contact volunteering parents as to who will be in their group (this will probably be 1 child besides your own).

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the above information please feel free to email me.

Have a great 3 day weekend with your families.

Miss. Maciel

Week of 5/19-5/23

Good evening parents and guardians, 

What a busy week its been and the school year is coming to an end. Every time I do the calendar with the kids I tell them how many days we have left, I get excited but sad at the same time. My kiddos will no longer be my students and it doesn't help when my students say they don't want to leave me. 
I will miss them all and will miss all of you. I could not have asked for a better group of parents!
Thank you for all that you do (including my surprise birthday celebration!).

I will continue to update my blog on Fridays until the end of the school year and here and there during the summer with school supplies specials (in case you would like to begin stocking up for the next school year like me).

Here is a look at next week:

Language Arts:

• Unit 6-Week 3-"Building Beaver"
• Content Knowledge: Beavers Building Homes
• Phonological Awareness: Initial and Medial /e/
• Phonics: /e/ Spelled Ee
• Comprehension Skill: Main Idea
• Conventions: Telling Sentences
• Handwriting: Write E and e
• Words to talk about
• beaver, lodge, paddle, stream, river, lake
• Words to read
• the, was, to, like, from, where, pen, let, bell, get, fed, yes
• Exam: 3 week unit test
• Sight words and reading CVC words

Math:

• Begin Unit 20-money/coins
• Students will be able to identify the names and values of coins (penny, nickel, dime and quarter) 
• Students will be able to find the value of different combination of coins (up to a total value of 99¢) by counting all, counting by 5's and counting by 10's
• Students will be able to identify and write the symbol ¢
• Students will be able to pay for things using coins (up to a total of 99¢)

History:

• Social Studies- Unit 5 Calendars
• Lesson 1: How can we show time?
• Parts of a calendar (days, months)

Classroom news:

• May 22- Spring performance
• Clothes: All black with sun glasses
• Students are to report to their classrooms by 5:30
• Students will then need to be picked up and signed out from the classroom after the event
• May 23-School Group picture
• REACH will be taking a group picture for the year book cover
• Please be sure your child wears their REACH shirt (blue or red)
• Please try to bring your child on time as we will be taking the picture in the morning
• June 19-Science Expo
• Time 5:00-6:00
• Student will be presenting their science project to you
• Kindergarten: one project completed as a class
• Topic: Which kind of soap makes the best bubbles (hand, dish washing, clothes and hair)?
• We will be working on this a little every week leading up to the presentation
• June 25- End of the year part
• More information to follow

School News:

-May 19 - 
     School Board Meeting @ 7 p.m.
-May 22- 
     Spring Performance 4:30-7:00 p.m.- Extreme Pita available.
-May 26 - 
     Memorial Day. No School.
-May 28- 
     Jump Rope for Heart @ 1:30 p.m.
-May 30- 
     Awards Assemblies
        - TK/K @ 8 a.m.
        - 1st Grade @ 8:35 a.m.

        - 2nd & 3rd Grades @ 9:10 a.m. 

-June 26 
     Last Day of School
     Kindergarten Promotion

If you would like any more information on the topics above or have questions please feel free to email me.

Have a great weekend,
Miss. Maciel

Peek into our week 5/12-5/16

Good evening parents and guardians,

I want to begin today's entry by saying THANK YOU. Thank you for all the gifts and letters this week. I am truly blessed to have such awesome parents like you. YOU have made this year even more memorable. These final days will definitely be bitter sweet for me. I will be sad to see my kiddos go, but happy to see my little kinders all grown up and heading into first grade with so much knowledge (well at least I hope they retained some information lol).
Thank you all once again from the bottom of my heart.

Here is a look into our week.

Language Arts:

Unit 6-Week 2-"Old MacDonald had a wood shop"

Content Knowledge: Building with Tools 

Phonological Awareness: Initial and Medial /o/ 

Phonics: /o/ Spelled Oo 

Comprehension Skill: Character 

Conventions: Prepositional Phrases 

Handwriting: Write O and o 

 Words to talk about: saw, drill, hammer, screwdriver, file, chisel

 Words to read: where, is, go, that, come, said, pot, mom, stop, top, box, rock

Math:

• Continue with Unit 19-Numbers to 100
• Count to 100 by 2's, 5's, 10's
• Tens and ones

Social Studies:

• Unit 5- Lesson 5
• Student will be able to demonstrate familiarity with school's layout, environs, and the jobs people do there.

Classroom News:

•  Spring Performance: May 22
• Here is the link to the video we will be using: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF571ijdtzY
• Feel free to practice at home
• I would love it if your child could wear all black this day and use a pair of sun glasses
• Report time: Please have your child report to my class at 5:30 so we may prep and line up

School Events:

• 5/12-PTO meeting @ 4pm
• 5/13- ELAC meeting @ 4pm
• 5/14- Coffee with director and Family Wednesday (Kindergarten lunch at 11:00 am )
• 5/15-REACH lottery @ Chamber of Commerce
• 5/22- SPRING PERFORMANCE
• 4:30-Food and auction
• 6:00-7:00 performances
• 5/26- Memorial day- NO SCHOOL
• 5/28- Jump Rope for Hearts @1:30

As always, please feel free to email me with any questions or concerns.

Have a great weekend and mothers day!

Miss. Maciel

Thank you...

Everyone for all the wonderful gifts and cards these last two days. I am truly honored to be your child's teacher! I am going to miss each and every one one you next year, I can only hope  to get such greats parents again.

Muffins for Moms

• Mothers please don't forget to RSVP with me if you would would like to attend this little event on Friday morning May 9, from 7:15-7:35 am

Enjoy the rest of your week, 

Miss. Maciel

Week of 5/5-5/9

Good evening parents and guardians, 

Here is a look into our week.

Language Arts:

• Unit 6-Week 1-"Building with Dad" 
• Content Knowledge: Building a School
• Phonological Awareness: Medial /a/ and /i/
• Phonics: /a/ Spelled Aa and /i/ Spelled Ii
• Comprehension Skill: Compare and Contrast
• Handwriting: Write A, a and I, i
• Sight words-will begin to review words of the year
• here, do, little, with, what
• Words to talk about
• groundbreaking, trenches, foundation, welding, waterproof, gleaming
• Words to read
• here, do, what, little, with, from, jam, van, mix, quit, hill, bag
• Math
• Finish unit 17
• Test will be given Tuesday
• Students will be able to count up to 30 by identifying groups of tens and ones
• Begin Unit 19
• Students will be able to count to 100 by 10's
• Students will be able to count to 100
• Science
• Finish up Unit D-Chapter 6- Objects 
• Our test is scheduled for Wed
• 5 senses, classify and categorize objects

Classroom/school news:

•  5/5 Cinco De Mayo celebration in classroom after performances around 2:30 pm
• 5/9 Muffins for Moms
• REACH would love to provide muffins to all our special moms
• Time:7:15-7:35 in the gym
• Please RSVP with me via email or in person
• 5/22 Spring Performance
• Flier went home yesterday, I would love for my class to wear all black this day and wear sunglasses. I think it will go great with the song the kids have chosen to dance to.

As always, if you have any questions or would like more information please feel free to email me.

Have a great weekend, 

Miss. Maciel