Schedule for the Week of April 16-20

THANK YOU CLASSROOM VOLUNTEERS FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP!!! WE GREATLY APPRECIATE YOU EACH AND EVERY DAY!!!

• M - Music/P.E. and Media (Please remember your library books!!)
  
• T- Art
  
• W- P.E./Music
  
• Th- Music/P.E.
  
• F- Art & Computer & Celebrate Johnathan's Birthday!!
  

Star of the Week: Cormac!

Sight Words: and, there

Letter of the Week: Uu

Vocabulary: hollow, scurry, watchful, cling, defend, ravenous

Math: We are continuing to work on organizing data, graphing the data and learning how to read different graphs.

Literacy: This week we are beginning a new theme called "Animals All Around." We will be reading some fun new stories and talking about how to write a Thank you letter!

Schedule for the Week of April 9-13

• M - Art, Media & Character Class with Mrs. Swanson! & Celebration of Elizabeth's Birthday!!
  
• T - P.E./Music
  
• W - Music/P.E.
  
• Th- Art & 4th Grade Buddies
  
• F- Music/P.E.
  

Star of the Week: Elizabeth!

Sight Words: Review of: up, down, we, want, she, good, out, who, are, they

Letters of the Week: Yy & Zz

Vocabulary: Review!!

Math: We are continuing to work on organizing data, graphing the data and learning how to read different graphs.

Literacy: This is our last week talking about "Jobs People Do." We will continue with our literacy centers, Guided Reading Groups and practice building and decoding words.

****Please Remember to send in donations for our classroom basket!! Our theme is: "Family Sports" *******

Schedule for the Week of April 2-6

• M- Music/P.E. & Media (Please remember to return your Library Books!!)
  
• T- Art & Field Trip to Lowry Nature Center
  
• W- Music/P.E.
  
• Th- Music/P.E.
  
• F- No School! Teacher Workshop Day!
  

Sight Words: she, good

Word Families of the Week: -et (creates words such as: bet, get, let) -eg (creates words such as: peg, beg, leg) -en (creates words such as: Ben, ten, Jen)

Vocabulary: appreciate, grace, host, lush, marvelous, constantly

Math: We are beginning Chapter 10! We will be working on organizing data, graphing the data and learning how to read different graphs.

Literacy: We are starting a new theme this week in Language Arts called "Jobs People Do"- this theme will last for the next 3 weeks. We will continue with our literacy centers, Guided Reading Groups and practice building and decoding words.

Please check your e-mail about what your family can donate for our classroom basket for the carnival!! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!

Schedule for the Week of March 26-March 30

• M- Art & Media (Please remember to bring back your library books!) and celebrate Jack M.'s Birthday!!
  
• T- Music/P.E. and Adventures in Art!!
  
• W- Music/P.E.
  
• Th- Art
  
• F- P.E./Music & Computer
  

Star of the Week: Lucas!

Sight Words: are & they

Letters of the Week: Vv & Jj

Vocabulary: protecting, volunteer, responsible, adore, melancholy, exquisite

Math: Finishing chapter 9 on Measurement!

Literacy: We are starting a new theme this week in Language Arts called "Jobs People Do"- this theme will last for the next 3 weeks. We will continue with our literacy centers, Guided Reading Groups and practice building and decoding words.

WE'RE BACK!!!

It is great to see everyone again coming back from my maternity leave and spring break - I hope you all had a wonderful break last week and were able to get out and enjoy this amazing Minnesota "spring" weather we have been having.

Schedule for the Week of March 19-23rd

• M- Music/P.E. & Media (please remember your library books! :-) )
  
• T- Music/P.E.
  
• W- Art
  
• Th- P.E./ Music
  
• F- Music/ P.E. & Computer

Star of the Week!: Anna

Sight Words: out, who

Word Families of the Week: -ed (creates words such as: Ted, bed, led) -en (creates words such as: ten, Ben, Ken)

Vocabulary: Review..... treasure, sturdy, worth, compliment, confer, mingle, contrast, meander, tidy, famished, modify, unfortunate

Math: Chapter 9.... learning about measurement!

Literacy: Reviewing the theme of "In the Neighborhood" and re-reading some of our stories to cover this theme. We will also be working on describing a place in our writing and understand how to comprehend the setting of a story. The students don't know this yet, but we will also be building our own neighborhood too!

Schedule for the Week of November 14-18

• M- Music & P.E. and Media (Please remember to bring back your library books!) and we will have Character Ed. Class with Mrs. Swanson... the theme... "Be Your Best!"
  
• T- Art
  
• W- Music & P.E.
  
• Th- Music & P.E.
  
• F- Art & Computer
  

Star of the Week: Natalia!

Sight Word: he

Word Family of the Week: -ap (creates words such as: sap, map, rap)
-am (creates words such as: Sam, Pam, ram)

Vocabulary: Review of the last two weeks

Math: Last week of working on Chp. 4 - numbers 6-10

Schedule for the Week of November 7 - 11

• M- Music & Media (Please return your Library books!) and Parent/Teacher Conferences 4-7:20pm.
  
• T- P.E.
  
• W- Art
  
• Th- P.E. (last day of rollerskating!)/Music and Parent/Teacher Conferences 4-7pm
  
• F- No School - Parent/Teacher Conferences 8-3pm

Sight Word: like

Letter of the Week: Dd

Vocabulary: active, gigantic, voyage, gasped, glum, whimper

Phonics: Onset/ Rime Blending

Math: Starting Chp. 5 numbers 6-10

Schedule for the Week of Oct. 31 - Nov. 4

• M- Music (No media this week due to the Bookfair) & Happy Halloween! Party in the afternoon!!
  
• T- Art & Family Fun Book Fair Night - Come celebrate Literature 5-7pm!!
  
• W- P.E.
  
• Th- Music
  
• F- Art & Grandfriends Day!! Welcome Grandparents and Grandfriends!!

Sight Word: to

Word Family for the Week: -am (makes words such as.... Sam, Pam, Cam, ram)
- at (makes words such as.... sat, mat, pat)

Vocabulary: sly, proceed, apparel, announced, imagery, precisely

Phonics: Review Rhyme recognition

Math: We will be taking our Chp. 3 test on numbers 1-5.

Schedule for the Week of October 24-28

• M- Art and Media (Please remember to return your library books!)
  
• T- P.E. & Music & Picture Retake Day!
  
• W- Music & P.E.
  
• Th- Art & Meet up with 4th grade buddies!
  
• F- Music & P.E. and Computer

** Rollerskating begins this week in P.E., so please remember to bring your helmets! :-)

Star of the Week: Henry!!

Sight Word: Review: I, a, go, the, my

Letter of the Week: Cc

Vocabulary: Review: feast, appetite, aroma, prepare, urgency, lonely, gusto, surround, remind, savor, tradition, preoccupied, perfectly, mellow, talent

Math: Chap. 3 focusing on graphing and numbers 1-5

Schedule for the Week of October 10-14

• M- Music/P.E. & Media (Please remember to return you library books!)
  
• T- Art
  
• W- P.E./Music
  
• Th- Music/P.E.
  
• F- Art & Computer

Star of the Week: Isabella!

Sight Word: go

Letter of the Week: Cc

Vocabulary: appetite, savor, urgency, aroma, surround, tradition

Phonics: rhyming

Math: Chapter 3 - Numbers 1-5

Schedule for the Week of October 3-7

• M - Art & Media Class with Mrs. Williams (*Please return library books!) and Character Class with Mrs. Swanson
  
• T - P.E./Music
  
• W - Music/P.E.
  
• Th - Art
  
• F - Music/P.E. & Computer

Star of the Week: Jack M.

Sight Word: the

Letter of the Week: Nn and Pp

Vocabulary: feast, gusto, prepare, lonely, remind, preoccupied

Phonics: Syllable blending, segmentation and deletion

Math: Chapter 2 - Our last week of covering patterns

Schedule for the Week of September 26-30

• M - P.E./Music & Media with Mrs. Williams (*Please return your library books by today!)
  
• T- PICTURE DAY!! Music/P.E.
  
• W- Art
  
• Th- Music/P.E.
  
• F- Music/P.E. & Computer & Celebrate Camryn's Birthday!!

Star of the Week: Camryn

Sight Word: my

Letter of the Week: Tt

Vocabulary: Review (ability, confident, encourage, talent, differ, perfectly, resemblance, reverse

Math: Chp. 2 - Patterns

Schedule for the Week of September 19-23

• M- Music/P.E. & Media
• T- Art
• W- Music/P.E. & Field Trip to Apple Orchard
• Th - Music/P.E.
• F - Art & Computer

Letter of the Week: Rr

Sight Word of the Week: a

Phonics: Counting the number of syllables in a word

Math: Starting Chp. 2 on Patterning

Vocabulary Words for the Week: differ, stalking, mellow, automatic, perfectly, resemblance

Schedule for the Week of May 24 - 28

This is our LAST 5-day week! Can you believe it!?!?

• M - Art & Computer & Yearbook signing!!
  
• T - Happy Birthday to Morgan B.!! - P.E.
  
• W - Music & Media (Please Return your Library books, there will be no more check-outs for the rest of the year.)
  
• Th - Art
  
• F - P.E.

As the year is winding down, I am sure you are all gearing up for summer plans. The weather is definitely wanting summer to be here too! :-) Just a reminder, we do not have air conditioning in our school, so this 91 degree weather will be a little hard to concentrate in, but we will manage. Please be sure your child continues to dress for the weather - they are welcome to bring a water bottle to leave at school for the week too. Thank you!

This week we will be doing a lot of review as I begin to assess the students for their final report card.

I will also begin introducing subtraction in math so they are exposed to it and understand the beginning of subtraction for first grade.

***Just a Reminder....there will be no school next Monday, May 31st in honor of Memorial Day***

Schedule for the Week of May 10-14

• M- Computer & Music
  
• T- Art
  
• W- P.E. & Media (Please remember your library books!!) & Happy Birthday to Bellie!!!
• Th- Music
  
• F- Art
  

Word Families of the Week: -ug, -up

Math: we will begin learning addition and subtraction!!

Language Arts: We are starting our last theme called, "On the Go!" We will be talking about various types of transportation and writing about traveling and ways to get around the city and the world.

Book Bags: Last Friday, your child brought home a "Book Bag" or bag of books! Parents, please note that there is a letter for you to read inside the "Book Bag" that explains what these books are to be used for. A couple of key pieces of information for you to be aware of:
1. The "Book Bags" should stay in the child's backpack so they can use them at home and at school.
2. Each book within the bag should be read 5 times daily, this will help build your child's fluency.
3. Please record the date, the book, how long you read and parent signature on the "Book Log" which is the golden sheet of paper in your child's "Book Bag"

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me. Thank you! Happy Reading!

Highlights from April!!

Wow! Our classmate, Sophia, got to go on a limo ride with a few other SH friends and Mrs. Swanson because she sold more than 25 items in our PTA Fundraiser - nice job! Thanks for helping out our school!

We also spent a lot of time practicing how to measure in math this month!!! Look at all the things we practiced measuring!!

Schedule for the Week of April 26-30

• M - P.E. & Computer
• T - Music
• W - Art & Media (Please remember to bring back your library books!)
• Th - P.E.
• F - Music

Star of the Week! - Gunnar!!

Sight Words for the week! - give , little

Math - continue working on making and reading graphs

Social Studies - learning about our "place" in the world

Language Arts - working on blending and segmenting sounds in words, along with how to write a letter and reading about Arctic Animals.

Schedule for the Week of April 19-23

• M- Computer & Music
  
• T- Art
  
• W- P.E. & Media (Don't forget to bring your library books back!!)
  
• Th- Music & Celebrate Earth Day!! (We will be talking about Earth Day all week long.)
  
• F- Art
• S - SHIRLEY HILLS Spring Carnival this Saturday 11-3pm!! Please come, it will be worth your while! :-)
  

Star of the Week! Erik S.!!

Sight Words for the Week: and, there (we only have five more sight words to learn after this!)

Letter of the Week: Uu (practice some words with the /u/ sound in the middle, for example, fun, sun, etc.)

This week will be a busy one!! We will be talking a lot about how we can take better care of the Earth, we even made a pledge in our class:

"In kindergarten (k-2) we pledge to use paper out of the scrap bucket as often as possible AND turn off the lights in the afternoon."

We are also working on a new chapter in math on graphing and a new chapter in Social Studies about "Who We Are in the WORLD!"

Have a wonderful and enjoy the beautiful weather!!

Schedule for the Week of April 5-9

• M- computer and Music & Happy Birthday to Sophia!!
  
• T- Art
  
• W- P.E. and Media (Please remember to return your library books this week!)
  
• Th- Music
  
• F- Art
  

STaR of the WeEk!!!: Morgan Rose!

Sight Words being Introduced this week!: she , good

Hello! I hope you were all able to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather this past weekend! I know I did and that wonderful sunshine hitting my face always gives me a SMILE!! :-)

This week your child is reading "My Teacher Can Teach...Anyone!" and "Bravo, Maurice!". The students will see the wide variety of jobs that people have. We will continue to work on more sight words. Please continue to work on ALL of the sight words we have learned so far this year at home - making flashcards for the car or a memory game is a great way to practice at home.

In math, we have been working on money (identifying the different coins, and telling time) but will continue on this week in learning a little about measurement. We are also talking a lot about our neighborhoods and what makes a neighborhood in social studies.

I was just looking at my calendar this morning and realized we only have 10 weeks of kindergarten left!!! Yikes! I can't believe how fast this year has gone!! I know I will cherish every moment from now until the end of the year.... these kids have learned so much and come so far in the past 7 months! Way to go kindergarten class of 2022!

Schedule for the Week of October 19-23

Welcome back!! I hope you enjoyed your break! Here is what the week ahead looks like:

• M - Character Class with Mrs. Swanson, Computer & P.E.
  
• T- Music
  
• W- Art & Media (Please return your Library Books!)
  
• Th - P.E.
  
• F - Wear your SpIrIT WEaR!! & Music

SiGhT WoRd Of ThE WeEk: go

Letter we are working on: Cc - sound and writing

Math Vocabulary we will be working on: equal, same as, more than, less than