Hello, Kindergarten Griffin Parents!
I hope you all had a great weekend and are looking forward the three-day weekend, before we go into our last week before the summer break! Remember next Monday is a holiday and Tuesday- Thursday are early release days. We will continue to read Grasshopper on the Road from our Classics to Keep books this week. We will be emptying out desks this week and next, so take a look in your child's backpack for things that can be left at home. Thank you!
Please continue to read for homework 20 minutes each night and continue to fill out the reading logs (now in the red folder), but you will be able to read books from home like you did at the beginning of the year.
Classics to Keep
Below is a list of all 5 books we will read in the upcoming weeks, along with the ISBN. Please try to purchase the same ISBN as we will be using in class so that all students will have the same page numbers to follow along as we read together. All books are readily available on Amazon and at Barnes and Noble, for about $5 each.
Little Bear 978-0064440042
Little Bear’s Visit 978-0064440233
Mouse Soup 978-0064440417
Mouse Tales 978-0064440134
The Grasshopper on the Road 978-0064440943
April 2-5 Little Bear
Promotion
Ceremony Times:
8:30- 10:00 am
KA- Brown/Barrantes
KB- Quick/McConnell
10:15 – 11:45 am
KC- Solano/Williams
KD- Ash/Krauss
Each ceremony will conclude with light refreshments for the families and scholars to enjoy before the students return to class.
All scholars will need to arrive at school on time as usual, and we will have our regular mid-morning/afternoon schedule following the ceremonies. Great Hearts scholars will complete academic lessons through the last day of school, including assessments, so we will have lessons and activities planned for the remainder of our ceremony day. Please do not take your child home after the ceremony.
This Week
Math Skills
Money
- Coins
- Pennies
- Nickels
- Dimes
- Quarters
- Identify and Count Coins
- Counting Like Coins
- Counting Coin Value
- Money Assessment, 5/23
Spalding
- Spalding Phonograms: continue to practice all 70 learned phonograms
- Spelling Words: sea, sea, blue, cool, earth, feed, fur
- Identify phonogram sounds
- Identifying rhyming words
- Letter formation/pencil grip, writing phonograms on paper
- Jobs of the Silent Final /e/ (sheets are in red folder for more detail)
Literature
Grasshopper on the Road
- Seminar
Core Saying
Grammar
Poetry
History/Science
- Science:
- Plant Unit
- Life Cycle of a Flower
- Plant Assessment, 5/22
- Cumulative Assessment, 5/23
- History:
- Be sure to read daily for 20 minutes; 100 minutes this week. Reading Logs will be collected this Friday, May 23rd. Please record on the Reading Log page, sent in your child's red folder. If you miss a night, please record 0 minutes and initial rather than leaving it blank.
- Spalding homework will continue to be in the Written Phonogram Review format-please read the GH logo homework sheet for instructions. Monday- Wednesday scholars write the list of words and phonograms once; on Thursday in preparation for our Spelling Test the words our written twice.
- Memorize poem by Friday!
Upcoming Assessments
- Math Assessment – Friday, May 23rd: Money Unit
- Spalding Phonogram Assessment – Thursday, May 22nd
- Science Assessment – Thursday, May 22nd: Plant Unit
- Spalding Spelling Assessment – Friday, May 23rd
- Science Assessment – Friday, May 23rd: Cumulative
Upcoming Events
- May 23 ~ Early Release Day
- May 26 ~ No School, Memorial Day
- May 27 ~ Kindergarten Promotion Rehearsals; Early Release
- May 28 ~ Kindergarten Promotion; Early Release
- May 29 ~ Early Release; Last Day of School
