Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Sunday, June 5, 2016
UPDATES for 5/31-6/3 2016
**Our ABC COUNTDOWN is nearing the end! This week, the students had a great T-Ball Game on the turf, made a unicorn mask, ate a vegetable for snack and had some juicy watermelon to end the week. Next week, we will make our autograph books (X marks the spot!) have a YES! Day and go into the Reading Bubble to ZIP and ZOOM into Summer and First Grade.
**Our visit to the Chicken Coup was rescheduled for Monday, June 6th. We will be walking beginning at 11:30 and return for lunch at 12:15 pm.
**Our WALKING FIELD TRIP to the Oak Park Conservatory is Tuesday, June 7th. We will begin walking at 9:40 am. We have a classroom experience beginning at 10:00 am and then a tour of all the plant rooms. If time permits, we will sketch in the Desert Room. We have N. Daniel, M. Nelson, K. Bell volunteering their help.
**Please join us on the last day of school (JUNE 8th) beginning at 1:00 pm for our last FAMILY HOUR. The students will be signing autograph signing, have light refreshments, get report cards and summer packets......and maybe "do"something special on the black top!
**Keep those LIBRARY BOOKS and BUSY READERS coming in. They are due NOW! Look around your house and especially behind things.
**Information on the Oak Park Library's Summer Reading Incentive is in your child's back pack. "Read to Win" had begun! Have Fun!
**Information on the Irving School Summer Math Incentive will be in your child's report card.
It is called "Splash Into Math." Students will have a chance to work at their own pace and move across grade levels. Check it out!
**We did not let the weather keep us from our Pizza and Play! We had a dance party in the auditorium in the morning and by noon the weather had cleared enough for us to have our pizza, veggies and fruit picnic style in front of the school. A HUGE THANKS for those of you who helped make our picnic special!
**I was not able to attend the End of the Year Block Party, but I heard it was great fun. Hope you came out to enjoy it!
**Please keep sending your child's back pack! Thanks! The rest of our journals, science notebooks and Trimester 3 portfolios will go home.
**Our space stations will be recycled next week!
This week:
The students spent time looking over their portfolios and writing journals. They really marveled at all the progress they made. The writing journals were especially fun. Some students couldn't believe their own writing at the beginning of the year. We are beginning to put away things for summer cleaning. These students are so ready to move on to First Grade!
Reading/Language Arts: The students continued their review of all they have learned this year in phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, reading fluency and comprehension. They planned their own workstations. They are READING everywhere!!!!
Math: The students continued to work on their new June Calendar Books and their math review journals. They are so independent now! Yes! Work on counting, shapes, adding, subtracting, story problems, equation writing, positional concepts, nonstandard measurement, teen numbers and number writing were a few of the topics they reviewed.
Writing: The students are currently working on their draft writing on the topic: "Worms." They will finish it up with the final draft next week. They had a great time looking over their beginning journals--from simple white paper to our green journals. Lots of comments on letters formation, word writing, and even how they illustrated "back then." So much progress!
Science: The students are observing the goings on in the worm bin. Students have brought some "food" to feed the worm compost. The students observed a worms segmented body and pointy head. The bristles or hairs that help them to move were too tiny to see. We are hoping to plant next week in our garden bed.
Technology: The students are currently working on their end of the year movie entitled, "The Best Part of Kindergarten." Each student has chosen an aspect of kindergarten and written a script to recite. Then they had to come up with a way to act it out. Stay tuned!!!
Literature: "Curious George Plants a Tree," "Diary of a Worm," "An Ants Day Off."
**Our visit to the Chicken Coup was rescheduled for Monday, June 6th. We will be walking beginning at 11:30 and return for lunch at 12:15 pm.
**Our WALKING FIELD TRIP to the Oak Park Conservatory is Tuesday, June 7th. We will begin walking at 9:40 am. We have a classroom experience beginning at 10:00 am and then a tour of all the plant rooms. If time permits, we will sketch in the Desert Room. We have N. Daniel, M. Nelson, K. Bell volunteering their help.
**Please join us on the last day of school (JUNE 8th) beginning at 1:00 pm for our last FAMILY HOUR. The students will be signing autograph signing, have light refreshments, get report cards and summer packets......and maybe "do"something special on the black top!
**Keep those LIBRARY BOOKS and BUSY READERS coming in. They are due NOW! Look around your house and especially behind things.
**Information on the Oak Park Library's Summer Reading Incentive is in your child's back pack. "Read to Win" had begun! Have Fun!
**Information on the Irving School Summer Math Incentive will be in your child's report card.
It is called "Splash Into Math." Students will have a chance to work at their own pace and move across grade levels. Check it out!
**We did not let the weather keep us from our Pizza and Play! We had a dance party in the auditorium in the morning and by noon the weather had cleared enough for us to have our pizza, veggies and fruit picnic style in front of the school. A HUGE THANKS for those of you who helped make our picnic special!
**I was not able to attend the End of the Year Block Party, but I heard it was great fun. Hope you came out to enjoy it!
**Please keep sending your child's back pack! Thanks! The rest of our journals, science notebooks and Trimester 3 portfolios will go home.
**Our space stations will be recycled next week!
This week:
The students spent time looking over their portfolios and writing journals. They really marveled at all the progress they made. The writing journals were especially fun. Some students couldn't believe their own writing at the beginning of the year. We are beginning to put away things for summer cleaning. These students are so ready to move on to First Grade!
Reading/Language Arts: The students continued their review of all they have learned this year in phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, reading fluency and comprehension. They planned their own workstations. They are READING everywhere!!!!
Math: The students continued to work on their new June Calendar Books and their math review journals. They are so independent now! Yes! Work on counting, shapes, adding, subtracting, story problems, equation writing, positional concepts, nonstandard measurement, teen numbers and number writing were a few of the topics they reviewed.
Writing: The students are currently working on their draft writing on the topic: "Worms." They will finish it up with the final draft next week. They had a great time looking over their beginning journals--from simple white paper to our green journals. Lots of comments on letters formation, word writing, and even how they illustrated "back then." So much progress!
Science: The students are observing the goings on in the worm bin. Students have brought some "food" to feed the worm compost. The students observed a worms segmented body and pointy head. The bristles or hairs that help them to move were too tiny to see. We are hoping to plant next week in our garden bed.
Technology: The students are currently working on their end of the year movie entitled, "The Best Part of Kindergarten." Each student has chosen an aspect of kindergarten and written a script to recite. Then they had to come up with a way to act it out. Stay tuned!!!
Literature: "Curious George Plants a Tree," "Diary of a Worm," "An Ants Day Off."
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