What We Are Doing:
Theme- For Theme this week we will release our butterflies. We also made shaving cream clouds. This also helped some students with sensitivity to touch. It is a fun activity! We will talk about bugs and our feelings about them. Students will also illustrate a bug book.
Math- We will have a math test on Tuesday. We will also explore place-value concepts for tens and ones, investigate place value digit patterns, and introduce greater than, less than & equal to symbols.
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Graduation- Graduation is on June 5th, at 8:30 a.m. in the gym. Invitations went out Monday in the Weekly folders. Everyone has an extra invitation to invite other family members. If your child has a sibling at Stargate they may ask their teacher to be excused for the first hour, so they can watch the ceremony. The students arrive at school as usual, (at 8:00a.m.) that morning and go to their homeroom. Students can wear anything dressy, please not flip flops or any shoes that would prove dangerous on the risers. Parents will start seating themselves in the gym. If you would like to help set up tables in the multi purpose room for our reception please meet there after 8:00 a.m. before you seat yourself in the gym. Graduation starts at 8:30 when the Kindergarteners file in. The ceremony lasts about an hour. After that we'll enjoy food and cake in the multi-purpose room. The Friends are welcome to play on the "Big" playground with your supervision during the reception. There will be a setting for a photo shoot at the reception. We also have someone who is going to take your child's photo when he/she crosses the bridge. Please remember to take your child's timeline and advice paper when you leave the celebration. Everyone is very excited about our BIG day. I'm sure you have tons of questions so please ask. This celebration is put on by the parents, so thank you, thank you, thank you for all you're doing!!!!!
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Timeline-
The Kindergarteners are doing a class project where they will create their own timelines, and write advice to next years incoming class. Both of these will be displayed at our graduation ceremony. We will need photos for this project. Please send your photos in an envelope with your child's name on it. They need one photo for every year, i.e., a baby picture, a 1 year photo, a 2 year, 3 year, 4 year, 5 year, and if they are 6, a 6 year old picture. They will also need a recent photo, ( a class picture would be good) for their advice. All together they will need 6 or 7 photos for this project. We realize it may take a bit before you can gather all pictures, so please just send them in when you have everything together. We will be working on this for most of the month of May. The Friends will share their timelines with the class. Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you so much!!!!
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Field Day
Field Day is June 4th. If you know your child will get lunch from school, please let us know by May 27th. the lunches will be sack lunches and we need to know who is getting lunch before it is ordered. Also, we need some parent volunteers for field day. Please contact Ms. Lamonski if you would like to volunteer.
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Waterbottle
It would be great if you could put a water bottle in your child's lunch. They are getting very thirsty outside and it would help if they have water in their lunches.
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Library
The final due date for all library books is Wednesday, May 28. If your child still has a book at home, please have them turn it in by this date. Thanks!
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Dress Code reminder-
Students may not come to school wearing spaghetti straps and short skirts. I know that there is a big difference between a 7th grader wearing spaghetti straps and a kindergartener, but this is district policy. If you have any questions, please check out pages 29-30 in the Community handbook.