We have now finished Math, Phonics, Reading and Science! Next week we will continue to review and work on some 1st grade skills. We will also complete Author Studies for the rest of the year. We will explore many different authors such as Tomie dePaolo, Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House Series), Eric Carle, Barbra Park (Junie B. Jones series) and others. Feel free to check these books out over the summer at your local libraries. We continue Kid Writing.


Summer Practice packets are coming home today. Use these activities over the summer to get your child ready for first grade. We have included a few decodable readers, a bookmark with strategies to decode words, practice worksheets, math fact flashcards and 1st grade sight word flashcards. Their Science Journals are also in the packet. Students can use the remaining pages to practice their Kid Writing skills.

We traveled to the high school to see the Spring Concert! It was terrific as usual!

Important Dates

Tuesday, May 22 Kindergarten Graduation will be held in the high school auditorium. Doors will open at 5:30. Graduation will begin at 6:00. Students will wear caps and gowns, so please have your child wear a white collared shirt.

Thursday, May 24 Kindergarten Fieldtrip (See the orange paper in your child’s folder for details)

Friday, May 25 Carnival – Students are permitted to wear gym clothes. Please be sure your child wears sneakers and sunscreen!

Monday, May 28 – Memorial Day, No School

Thursday, May 31 – Last Day of School. Dismissal will be at 11:45.

Thanks again for a fabulous year! We enjoyed each day with your children and are so proud of their progress this year. They are truly wonderful students. What a great class! We will miss them next year!

Mrs. Borden & Mrs. Jones



week of May 14

Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Nifty Newsletter (week of May 14)


*This will be the last week for both the Readers and ½ sheet homework. Great job to both students and parents for all of your hard work this school year. We appreciate all of the effort and are so very fortunate to have had the pleasure to work with you and your children this year.*

This week in Phonics, we will be reviewing combinations of er like in butter, or like in horse, and ar like in star. We will also be introducing and using the vowel consonant consonant vowel pattern. We will use the division line and accent mark when coding words. We will continue to review compound words, rhyming words, and sound manipulation in words.

Our reading story is Animal Homes and we will be discussing how animal build their homes. We will also be “making up our minds about things in the story.” This concept is called drawing conclusions. We have also been working very hard on telling sentences, questions, and exclamation points. The class is doing a good job giving examples of each. They also know the difference between a verb (action word) and a noun (person, place, or thing).

We are working very hard to practice lots of addition and subtraction skills to get ready for first grade. We have also been reviewing graphing, shapes, patterns, counting by 1’s, 5’s, 10’s and 2’s to 100. We also work on estimation, fraction, and money daily in Math Meeting.

A special thank you goes out to the Teens Against Tobacco for the great activities they had planned for us on Friday. We loved getting outside and learning about all the ways to make good choices for our bodies.

Summer Practice Packets will be sent home shortly. This will contain a mixed review of Kindergarten skills along with some First Grade skills to get us ready for next school year.

The Kindergarten DVD order form and the Carnival Lunch form are due by Monday, May 14.

Monday is Day 1, Art. Please bring your Library Books back if you have one at home, Book Exchange is ending this week. Thursday is Day 4, Gym, please wear your sneakers.

Important Dates Coming Up:

May 22- Kindergarten Graduation at 6 pm at North Schuylkill High School

May 24- Kindergarten Field Trip

May 25- NSE Carnival Day

May 28- No School For Memorial Day

May 31- Last Day of School (dismissal at 11:45 for students)

Week of May 7

Mrs. Borden & Mrs. Jones’ Nifty Newsletter (Week of May 7)

In Phonics we will work with digraph ch, ee, and combinations ar, or, and er. We will also review compound words, and unblend consonant sounds.

In Math we will continue to review and focus on addition and subtraction problems.

Our new Reading stories are The Night Worker and The House that Tony Lives In. We will discuss jobs that work at night and the types of jobs that it takes to build a house. We will identify the plot and the setting.

Our local librarians visited Kindergarten this week as part of the PA One Book: Every Young Child program. The featured book this year is Stop Snoring Bernard.

Our Field Trip will be on Thursday, May 24th. We will be attending the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus in Hershey at the Giant Center! Homeroom parents that will be attending the field trip-You have the option of ordering a lunch from the cafeteria also. The food provided will be the same as the student lunches.

Kindergarten Graduation will be held at 6:00 on Tuesday, May 22nd in the High School Auditorium. Details will be sent home at a later date.

Monday is Day 1. We will have Art. Don’t forget your library books for Day 2. This will be the last time to exchange books for the year. Have a great weekend!