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