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