**A very busy week in kindergarten! The students prepped for their next live animal study--guppies and goldfish. Our fish were supposed to arrive on Wednesday, but.......so far no fish. We used the time to continue seed exploration. Hopefully, we will have fish next week. The students are sensing change in the air! We will be visiting First Grade next week. First Grade students will speak about the world of First Grade and answer any questions our students have. We continue to edit our habitat iMovie. Should be ready soon!
**The students will begin "traveling" to recite their poems throughout the school on Wednesday, May 10th and again on May 17th. They sound really good!
**The students enjoyed their Fitness Week, especially the all school exercise time!
**The ABC COUNTDOWN continues! Check out this weeks activities chosen by the students. Please let me know if I need to get a dairy alternative ice cream for anyone.
**The ART FEST/POETRY SLAM is Thursday, May 18th from 6-8 pm al over the school. Come on out and see art on the walls from each Irving student, hear the chorus, see a play and play Spanish games with Senorita and take part or watch the Poetry Slam. We have 2 "little slammers" signed up so far. There is still time to get involved!! Share your creativity!! You can say any poem by yourself, with a sibling, a whole family or friends. You can sing, say, rap or write your own.
**DANCE PARTY sponsored by the 5th grade will be held on Friday, May 19th from 5-7 pm in the gym. The cost is $1.00. The money raised will help fund their send off and future outdoor ed scholarships.
**I have begun final assessments for the last report card period. Assessments for end of the year DIBELS, AIMSWEB Math, sight words, independent and instructional reading levels and social/emotional growth reflections will be done.
**Maze Library Field Trip permission slip and library card application is in your child's homework folder. Our walking field trip is Thursday, May 25th at 1:00 pm. I will need 2 volunteers.
**Get ready for Olympic Feats of strength, endurance and teamwork at Olympic Day on Friday, May 26th from 8:30-11:00 am.
**Future FIELD TRIP--Oak Park Conservatory on Tuesday, June 6th-9:30-10:30 am.
**Pizza and Play End of the Year Family Picnic-Wednesday, May 31st-9:30-noon.
**In our Second Step lesson this week, we took the time to review fair ways to play.
**In Friendship Club this week, Dr Bell Bey introduced the class to another behavior "thinkable" call "space inspector" who helps you pay attention and respect others personal space. The students viewed a webisode on the subject.
**In Mr. Packer's Thinking Skills this week, Mr. Packer continued his lesson on being a good detective and looking for clues and details.
This week:
The students enjoyed the first week of the ABC Countdown. They had a great afternoon to blow bubbles and chase them from my bubble machine on Bubble Day. There were knights, wizards, jesters, kings, princess and queens on Castle Day. We read about puppies and dogs and made dog masks for Dog Stories Day. Our station day activities included making dog masks, teen number count it, glue it, write it and tulip origami.
Reading/Language Arts: I am combining phonics skills, vocabulary, comprehension, literacy and the rest of our common core standards of our final Treasures Reading series Unit 9-Amazing Creatures and Unit 10-I Know A Lot. Woven into the units will be poetry to close out the year. This week, the students read stories about different kinds of insects. Target words were he and she. Target sounds were Gg and Ww and students reviewed all short and long vowel sounds. We continue to work on formative and summative blueprints comparing and contrasting two texts, opinion writing, word choice and defining an unknown word and a review of story elements. Students began incorporating some First Grade words into their sentences. A group lesson focused on the definition of the word pronoun and the use of I, you, he , she, it, we and they. The students worked in small groups with leveled readers reading for meaning and fluency, discussing story elements, cause and effect and making inferences. Word work centered on using context clues to figure out the meaning of an unknown word. They also continued to work on reviewing the use of nouns, verbs and adjectives. Robust Vocabulary this week included AMAZING, DEEP, INVITE, OCEAN, REASON, ANNOY, INSECT. The students continue to review sound blending strategies as well as recognizing consonant blends and digraphs and work with silent e. Workstations this week included writing questions and answers pertaining to a particular text, word families un and ut, writing a sentence about a insect you have seen, picking two insects and writing about how they are alike and different, writing an opinion piece about what insect you like the best.
Math: The students are working in their new calendar books. Some new features include number puzzles, writing 2 and 3 digit numbers, dice subtraction, number find 1-200 and nonstandard measurement using unifix cubes. The student started a new morning math journal. They are reading a story problem, deciding whether to add or subtract, illustrating the problem, showing it on a number line and writing the equation. Our Eureka Math lesson focused on teen numbers and the idea of "hiding zero" when showing teen numbers on a number bond as ten plus more. Workstations this week included using the "hide zero" way to write teen numbers in a number bond, counting on from a random number, reading and solving story problems, playing make 5 Bingo, building new shapes using existing pattern blocks.
Writing; The students completed their orange books for upper and lowercase letter formation. They will bring their books home next week. We will continue to review letter and number writing. The students have completed their persuasive letter to a family member. We will be addressing and mailing them next week. Students will continue to work on persuasive writing and use a piece as a forum for speaking in front of the class, a mini presentation if you will. Stay tuned!
Science: While waiting for our guppies and goldfish, the students observed the growth of their seedling. Each student took a look at the inside of a pinto bean seed. Using a water logged pinto bean, the students split it open----there they observed the outside coat and the baby plant (embryo) in the inside corner. Cool! The rest of the inside of the seed is the food where the seed gets its nourishment. The students are so excited about their growing seedlings. Key vocabulary--germinate, sprout, shoot, root, leaf. They are taking care to water them daily and observe shoots and leaves developing. Next week---examining roots systems.
Technology: The students continue to edit their Habitat iMovie.
Literature: "How Do Seeds Grow?" "Beetles," "Insects," "The Tiny Seed," "Beautiful Bugs," "Spring Changes," "Dogzilla," "Puppies," "Clifford and His Family," "Space Dog, Jack," "Boomer goes To School," "Scooby Doo."
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