Play Day T-Shirts and Shorts

This is the design that will be on the Play Day Shirts.

We are starting our Play Day T-Shirt and Shorts Sale. The sale goes on from now until Wednesday, April 13. Each grade level has a different color shirt. The color for Kindergarten this year is RED.

If you wish to order a shirt for your child or yourself, fill out the order form and send it back to school with payment. (The order form is pictured below.)  Or if you would prefer... they are offering online ordering this year! You can submit your order at HTTPS://CHIMNEYLAKES.ITEMORDER.COM. The Shirts range in price from $12.00 for youth up to $24.00 for XXL shorts.

Week of April 4

Our Resources for the week are: Tuesday #1-18 Computer Lab and #19-37 P.E., Wednesday #1-18 P.E. and #19-37 MEDIA and Thursday ART. There is no school on Friday. :) 

We have two Africa Craft Days coming up this month. Please email or write us a note if you would like to Volunteer to help us. :) The dates and times can be found on the April Calendar.

Handwriting/Writing

We are beginning Persuasive Writing. We will discuss how it is similar to opinion writing, but we will need to give facts in these sentences to persuade the reader. (This is not usually a writing we do in Kindergarten, so we will be taking baby steps together!) Here is the book  Earrings by Judith Viorst, we will be listening to it and using it to discuss how the girl persuades her parents. 

MATH

Our students are doing a great job using their subtraction skills. This week they will be introduced to the idea that addition and subtraction partner together. if 8+2=10 then 10-2=8. This is very confusing for 5&6 year olds but I have confidence they will work hard!

SCIENCE 

This week we will learn about stars and the sun. The neatest fact for the students is that the sun is actually a star! After exploring stars we will move on to planets!

Reading

Sight words for the week are: with, very and after. Our Word Families are the -end and -ent families. Practice having your child make words that would belong in both~ bend, send, gent, spent, went, etc. Along with the GR- blend. Practice having your child think of words that would begin with the br blend: bracelet, brick, brunch, etc.   Here is a slideshow I made for us to use in class. We will be discussing medial vowel sounds= whether the word makes a short sound or a long one. Examples cat (short a) and cake (long a). Here is the slideshow we will be practicing with after we watch the videos below. :)


 
Also, we will really be drilling sight word!!. The students did AMAZING during our last sight word testing. The 4th Quarter Goal is 100 Sight Words and we are going to work hard to help each student get closer and closer to that goal! 
 This is our last week discussing Christopher Columbus and the Pilgrims. We will discuss all the key details from the stories, review our years the events occurred on our timeline. *Hint Hint: Test Questions!! (Columbus sailed 1492, Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock 1620) We will also make a super cute Mayflower Book. Be on the look out for it to come home. :)

Fun Friday: Blue and Yellow, Blue and Yellow!

The blue and yellow shirts took over our classroom on Friday. :) It was so great, to see so much School Spirit. It made you feel great to be a Chimney Lakes Cheetah!!

It was however difficult to take pictures, because all the students wanted to do was eat the Fun Friday Snack and powdered donuts. Not to mention PLAY! haha So here are the few I was able to take.

 Enjoy!

And I had to show this. I thought it was too funny that two students would bring in Fun Friday Snacks... and that they be the same special treat. :) Zavion and Abigail know what their friends like!

FSA Buddy Announcement #3

Well great minds think alike. :) Our buddies got us the same treat we got them! 

Donuts, Donuts and more Donuts!!!

Here is our gift from Mrs. Griffin and Mrs. Burgett's Class. I wanted to take pictures of the students eating the donuts. haha But white powder was all over! On their faces, fingers and arms... and I just couldn't stop laughing long enough to take the pictures. haha I was too busy saying, "Make sure you get a baby wipe and clean up." :)