**The students are DAYS closer to becoming First Graders! They are feeling the change as well as seeing it. The classroom is slowly getting ready for Hephzibah Camp and my retirement. Our fish have found a good home in Glen Ellyn. Our Design Challenge Habitats have been recycled. Our ABC Countdown is coming to an end. The students had fun sharing their Toys, drawing their end of the year "Unique" portrait and sharing something of Value to them. On Friday, we Watched 2 great story book movies centering on Author Marcus Pfister's "The Rainbow Fish." Our last X,Y, Z is enclosed.
**The students helped weed our class garden bed. We will amend the soil and plant our baby zucchini, potatoes and pumpkin that have been started in our classroom.
**Our WALKING FIELD TRIP to the Oak Park Conservatory is Tuesday, June 6th. We will be leaving school at 9:00 and returning to school at 11:00 am. I STILL NEED MANY PERMISSION SLIPS! Please send them in. Once again, if your child is not attending the trip, I need to make alternate plans for them at school. Please let me know. Thanks!
**Ms. Noonan is still collecting LIBRARY BOOKS. We have 5 students with books out. Please send them back ASAP! Students with books out have the slip in their homework folder.
**The students had an assembly about the Oak Park Library Summer Reading Program. It starts June 8th. I am hoping lots of my students sign up!
**Our End of the Year Picnic at Rehm Park was awesome! We had perfect weather, plenty of pizza, veggies and fruit and a great time with families and kindergarten students! Thanks to all of you who helped make our day special.
**I was not able to attend the Back to School Block Party but heard it was great! Hope you all had fun. I heard lots of great dance music.
**OUR LAST DAY OF SCHOOL IS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7th. We will have a regular morning session. In the afternoon, after gym class.....Families and Friends please join us beginning at 1:00 pm for autograph signing and community along with summer packets and report cards to wrap up an awesome year.
**Your child's report card envelope will contain......the report card, DIBELS and AIMSWEB end of the year reports, Route to Reading current skills and info on Irving School's Summer Math Incentive. The Summer Packet will include a journal, word book, math book and phonics skill/writing book. Just to keep everyone sharp!!!
**PLEASE KEEP SENDING YOUR CHILD"S BACKPACK!
**In our final Second Step lesson, the students reviewed all we have learned this year. We invited Ms. Grogan's class to have choice time in our classroom to practice our Fair Ways to Play Rules. So fun!
**Mr. Packer's concluded his Thinking Skills lesson with his "dot" lessons.
This week:
The students spent this week looking over their portfolios and writing folders. They were really astounded by the progress they had made. The writing folders were especially fun. Some students couldn't believe their own writing at the beginning of the year. The students helped put some of the choice time items in storage and spent time with each other during our choice time. We had our final meeting with our Book Buddies from Ms. Balicki's class. The students and buddies shared stories together and we wished them well in their transition to Julian.
Reading/Language Arts: The students continued reviewing all they learned this year. They created their own workstations and we even mixed up the reading groups so everyone could be together and hear each other read. They are READING EVERYWHERE!! It is a great sound!
Math: The students continue to work in their June Calendar Books and their math review journals. They are doing both independently. They are counting, adding, subtracting, reading and solving story problems, writing equations, using the number line, subitizing, using teen numbers, counting by 1's, 5's, 10's and more, differentiating between 2D and 3D shapes and using number bonds and finding the missing addends. Yikes!!!!! They know a lot!
Writing: The students finished their "Thank You" notes to Ms. D. and Reading Grandma. I will send them off soon. Looking thru their Writing Folders was so fun and enlightening. Hope you enjoy them too!
Science: The students did their final investigation on the similarities and differences between guppies and goldfish. We invited Ms, Grogan's class to investigate with us. Each group had time to observe up close and personal both fish tanks. Awesome conversations and discoveries! Lots of great interactions between students in their sharing of information. The students recorded their observations in their science notebooks.
Technology: The students are putting the finishing touches on their iMovie entitled, "The Best Part of Kindergarten." Each student chose an aspect of Kindergarten and wrote a script to recite and created the scene that I filmed. Stay tuned!
Literature: "Nugget and Fang," "Under the Sea," "Coral Reef Homes," "Tropical Fish," "Sea Shore," "There's a Sea in my Bedroom," "When It's the Last Day of School."
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