Hello, Kindergarten Griffins!
We hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend, and our moms felt celebrated and appreciated for all that you do. We also want to sincerely thank you for all the love during teacher appreciation last week. Whether it was a sweet treat, volunteering to help, a generous gift, kind email, beautifully decorated door, or a handwritten note from your scholar, it truly meant so much to us!
Please note that Friday, May 15, will now be a full school day at Great Hearts Northern Oaks.
Reading Bags and leveled readers were collected today. We are sending home the reading logs in red folders to be completed by reading a book of choice at home- it will still be a grade that is taken up next Monday.
We will begin sending home desk materials a little at a time, so they are not carrying it all home on the last day. Please have your children empty their backpacks each night (other than red folders and black folders tomorrow, which need to be returned to school) so they are cleared out for the next set of items going home. We will have academic lessons and tests all the way until the last day of school. The last of the materials will be sent home on the final day, Friday, May 22nd.
Looking Ahead:
Kindergarten Promotion
Each student will wear a graduation cap and a tassel along with their Great Hearts uniform. Your child’s cap and tassel can be ordered via the following link: 2026 Kindergarten Promotion Ceremony Cap & Tassel These are one size fits all and sold as a set for $12. The set will be delivered to school. Please complete your order by TODAY so we will be ready for Promotion!
Promotion Details: All will be the morning of Wednesday, May 20th
KA and KB Sections: 8:30 AM
KC and KD Sections: 12:30 AM
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.
Coins for Math
We are asking that each child bring coins in a Ziploc bag for math. Students will be using the coins for the next couple of weeks. Please send the following coins with your child: 10 pennies, 5 nickels, 5 dimes, and 4 quarters.
Classics to Keep
This week we begin reading our last classic to keep!
The Grasshopper on the Road 978-0064440943
This Week Academics:
Math Skills
- Ch. 12- Numbers to 100
- Counting On
- Ch. 12 Assessment (Tue., 5/12)
- Cumulative Assessment #5 (Wed., 5/13)
- Money Unit will start on Friday
- Looking at each coin
- Discussing value of each coin
- Learning how to count each coin
Please practice these skills at home as well, especially recognizing and counting numbers to 100 (counting by 1s and by 10s).
- Counting On
- Looking at each coin
- Discussing value of each coin
- Learning how to count each coin
Language Arts Skills
- Spalding Phonograms: no new phonograms
- Spelling Words: land, cold, hot, hat, child, ice, play
- Identify letter names
- Isolating sounds in words
- Identify phonogram sounds
- Identifying rhyming words
- Letter formation/pencil grip, writing phonograms on paper
- Distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters; naming letters
- Identifying rules and markings on spelling words.
Grammar
- Kindergarten Memory Books
Literature
- Problem/Solution
- Annotations
- Virtue of Friendship
Poetry
History/Science
- Science: Plants
- Photosynthesis
- Plants: Make own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide
- Difference between Deciduous and Evergreen plants (keep leaves and lose them)
- Why are plants important to our environment
- How plants grow their own food, how it's harvested, and stored
- Learn about farmers/farm to table
- George Washington Carver, his discovery of the many uses of peanut plants
- Photosynthesis
- Plants: Make own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide
- Difference between Deciduous and Evergreen plants (keep leaves and lose them)
- Why are plants important to our environment
- How plants grow their own food, how it's harvested, and stored
- Learn about farmers/farm to table
- George Washington Carver, his discovery of the many uses of peanut plants
- History:
Homework Reminders
- Be sure to read daily for 20 minutes; 100 minutes this week. Reading Logs will be collected next Monday. Please record on the Reading Log page. If you miss a night, please record 0 minutes and initial rather than leaving it blank.
- Spalding handwriting practice. Spalding homework will continue to be in the Written Phonogram and Spelling Word Review format-please read the GH logo homework sheet for instructions. On Monday- Wednesday scholars write the list of phonograms and words once; on Thursday in preparation for our spelling test the list is written twice.
- Memorize poem by Friday!
Upcoming Assessment
- Ch. 12 Math Assessment – May 12
- Cumulative Math Assessment #5 – May 13
- WPR Assessment – Thursday, May 14
- Spelling Assessment – Friday, May 15
Upcoming Events
- May 15 ~ FULL DAY FRIDAY
- May 19 ~ Kindergarten Promotion Rehearsals
- May 20 ~ Kindergarten Promotion
- May 21 ~ Early Release
- May 22 ~ Early Release, Last Day of School
