Last Two Weeks of School!

This will be our last post for the year. I waited until tonight to do the post so I could share some pictures from the picnic day. We got lucky on both the zoo field trip and again today with beautiful weather. I know everybody enjoyed both days and we look forward to the three remaining days of Kindergarten. I want to thank each and every parent for their support this year. Whether you came in weekly to help with computers, volunteer from home to help design, develop and execute the holiday parties, practiced popcorn words, math facts, read a story, or chaperoned a field trip we couldn't have had such a successful year without you! I am going to miss this class tremendously, but I know they will do well in first grade.

Below are pictures from our picnic day and one from the zoo.

Face/Arm paintings

 

Long Jump 

Olympic Torch Craft

 Velcro Catch

 Zoo Field Trip

 Here is what we focused on last week and this week

Phonics

Our word family sounds of the week:  Blends and Digraphs

Sounds we know: s, a, t, i, p, n, ck, e, h, r, m, d, g, o, u, l, f, b, j, ai, oa, ie, ee, or, z, w, v. y, x, oo, OO, ch, sh, ng, th, qu, ou, oi, ue, er, ar

 Word Families: at, an, ap and am, it, in, ip, ing, en, et, ed, ot, op, ock, ug, un, um

Popcorn Words

This week we reviewed all of our popcorn words through various games. We played roll the popcorn word, we built them using tiles, stamps, and snap cubes.

Over the summer continue to search for these words in bookd, magazines, newspapers, even when you are out shopping.

If you take a vacation practice the popcorn words in the sand, with shells, or rocks.

Words we know: a, I, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, at, on, we, me, am, did, not, is, can, but, to, too. little, and, yes, go, no, so,  the, you, down, he, she, be, our, here, out, get, help, now, look, good, jump, will, have, must, one ,two, three, four, nine, said, this that new, soon, went, come, do, all, there, who, what, where, say, away, play, they,eat, please, want, with, came, make, ate, ride, was, saw, are, well, pretty, funny, under, find, blue, yellow, red, pink, black, white, brown, orange

Reading 
Our poem this week was called Field Trip and this week our poem is called Summer Vacation. We brought home our poem books today. Take time this summer to reread the poems and finding different words within the poems. In the beginning of the year we did not circle popcorn words on the poem sheets, this would be a good time to do that. As our poetry unit evolved we started adding songs and dances to poems so you might find we know the poems starting in December better than our old ones.

Math

In math we have continued practicing adding and subtracting within 5. We have played many summer themed math centers and this week we will continue some math centers before we leave for the summer. Most of our centers involved addition including cutting and pasting numbers. We rolled two dice, added them together, and colored the number on the picture. In the summer packet that almost everyone requested there are alot of math pages to practice this summer! Use these to keep the summer slide from happening. Many of the games we have played a variation of at school. Some might require a dice (look in a board game) others might need a spinner (we love pencils and paperclips!).