week of May 20, 2019

Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Newsletter (Week of May 20, 2019)

***This will be our last official newsletter of the school year.  We will send reminders and updates as needed. ***

Writing:  We are continuing to work on our Building Writers skills.  Coming up we have: Building Opinion Writers.  Opinions writing tells what you think.  We will be sending home the Building Writers book at the end of the year and there will be writings that we didn’t get to yet, so you can write over the summer!

Reading: Our new story is: The House That Tony Lives In and it is an informational fiction story. We will be working on setting of the story.  Our amazing words are: architect, electricians, plumbers, painters, landscapers, movers.  Our essential question for the story is: Who helps build a house?  We will continue to review all letter names (capital and lowercase), letter sounds including long and short vowels, chopping out all sounds in a given word, and blending/reading words.   Please continue to read at home and talk about the stories along with practicing the sight words.  Keep up the great work!

Math: Our new unit is Unit 9, and our essential question is “How can we represent numbers to show tens and ones?”  We will explore, count, write, and compare numbers.  We will continue to count to 100 by 10s and ones as well as practice what comes next in a number sequence, identify numbers by sight, and count dots and objects in two sets and identify the number that is greater.

***We are so proud of the growth that everyone showed on the Math DIBELS.  We ran the reports and will send them home next week after we take the Reading DIBELS.  If you have any questions about the reports or need more information, please just let us know.  Fantastic job; we are beyond thrilled with all of the hard work! ***

Important Dates:

May 20- Day 10

May 21- Spartan Games

May 27- No School, Memorial Day

May 28- Kindergarten Graduation (1pm)

May 29- Additional Day of Kindergarten Registration

week of May 13, 2019

Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Newsletter (Week of May 13, 2019)

***Happy Mothers’ Day!!!***

Writing:  We will be writing about places such as rainforests and deserts.  We also wrote a fact that we learned from our Building Beavers story.  Everyone stayed on topic and wrote a real fact.  We are so proud of what you have learned!

Reading: Our new story is: Alistair and Kip’s Great Adventure and it is an animal fantasy story. We will be working on main idea of the story.  Our amazing words are: gathered, distant, drifting, voyage, island, aboard.  Our essential question for the story is: What can friends build together?  We will continue to review all letter names (capital and lowercase), letter sounds including long and short vowels, chopping out all sounds in a given word, and blending/reading words.   Please continue to read at home and talk about the stories along with practicing the sight words.  Keep up the great work!

Math: Our new unit is Unit 9, and our essential question is “How can we represent numbers to show tens and ones?”  We will explore, count, write, and compare numbers.  We will continue to count to 100 by 10s and ones as well as practice what comes next in a number sequence, identify numbers by sight, and count dots and objects in two sets and identify the number that is greater.

Science/Social Studies: Our Weekly Reader explored the ladybug life cycle.  We are super excited because we already are experts on the butterfly life cycle.  We also loved The Grouchy Ladybug by our favorite author, Eric Carle.

Important Dates:

Week of May 13- NSE Book Fair and our DIBELS Math End of the Year Testing

May 17- Spartan Dress Down Day

May 18- NSE Chorus Concert

May 28- Kindergarten Graduation (1pm)

May 29- Additional Day of Kindergarten Registration

week of May 6, 2019

Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Newsletter (Week of May 6, 2019)

Writing:  We have been writing and building Informative Writers.  We are going to work on “what is it for” as well as “describing cheese”.  In addition to building Informative Writers, we are continuing to write in our Journals for Morning Work.  We are so proud of you for staying on topic and chopping out the words to write.

Reading: Our new story is: Building Beavers and it is an informational story. We will be working on main idea of the story.  Our amazing words are: beaver, paddle, stream, lodge, river, lake.  Our essential question for the story is: How do beavers build their homes?  We will continue to review all letter names (capital and lowercase), letter sounds including long and short vowels, chopping out all sounds in a given word, and blending/reading words.  We will also work on word families and rhyming words.  Please continue to read at home and talk about the stories along with practicing the sight words.  Keep up the great work!

Math: Our new unit is Unit 9, and our essential question is “How can we represent numbers to show tens and ones?”  We will explore, count, write, and compare numbers.  We will continue to count to 100 by 10s and ones as well as practice what comes next in a number sequence, identify numbers by sight, and count dots and objects in two sets and identify the number that is greater.

Science/Social Studies: Our Weekly Reader explored the 5 senses and how we can use them in our real world.  We are also continually reviewing what it means to be a good citizen and how to follow the SPARTY way all the way to the very last day.

Important Dates:

Monday, May 6- Day 10, NSE PTO Meeting at 6:30

Week of May 13- NSE Book Fair

May 17- Spartan Dress Down Day

May 28- Kindergarten Graduation (1pm)

May 29- Additional Day of Kindergarten Registration