What We Have Been Doing

Math- For Math we will explore area and weight, we will work with addition of 2 digit numbers, and discuss more than and less than number stories.

Theme-For theme we will explore more properties of water and discuss how we can conserve water at home. We are also preparing for Kindergarten Graduation.



Graduation

Graduation is on June 5th, at 8:30 a.m. in the gym.  Invitations went out a couple of weeks ago 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...

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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. ...

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Graduation is on June 5th, at 8:30 a.m. in the gym.  The students arrive at school as usual, (at 8:00a.m.) that morning and go to their homeroom.  Students can wear anything dressy, just 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 leave the celebration.  Everyone is very excited about our BIG day. I'm sure...

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Personal note:

I want to apologize for this blog being a day late and for my absence at school on Friday, May 9 and Monday, May 12. Ryan and I got news early Friday morning that Ryan's stepfather passed away. He was diagnosed with terminal caner on May 2.  Everything happened pretty quickly, but we know that he didn't suffer for very long. The memorial was on Monday.  Thank you for your kind thoughts and support.



What We Are Doing:

Math-

For Math we are working with addition facts. The students are learning different ways to find addition fact sums. We will have our chapter test next week.

Theme-

We will learn about the different types of clouds this week. We will make a book and make the different shapes of clouds with shaving cream.  Don't be surprised if your child begins predicting the weather soon.

Timelines:

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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What We Have Been Doing

Math- This week for math we will investigate timelines, begin making number scrolls for numbers to 100 and beyond, and begin working on addition facts and fact power to find addition fact sums. We may take a couple of days to work on the number scrolls, this week.

Theme- For Theme, we are observing our caterpillars. It looks like we will have four chrysalises by the middle of the week! We will also learn about the water cycle, the different types of clouds, and how important water is for our weather.



Book Orders- This year's last book order is due on Friday, May 9. The book order is a great opportunity to buy books for the summer.

Chain of Kindness Party- On Friday we will celebrate with a Chain of Kindness party. The students voted to have a pajama day and stuffed animal day. Please make sure that your child only brings 1 stuffed animal to school. :)  Thanks!



Graduation Meeting-

Graduation committees will meet in Ms. Gelakoska's...

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What We Are Doing:

Theme- This week for theme we are discussing the three different stages of water: gas, liquid and solid. We played a game that taught us that when water is a gas, the molecules move very fast and they are spread apart. When the molecules are in a solid, they are close together and move very slowly. The students are also making a book that describes the three stages of matter.

We also have visitors in our Kindergarten classroom. We welcome our four Painted Lady Butterfly larva. We will observe the changes the larva goes through to become a beautiful butterfly. We are recording our observation in a classroom journal. We will let the butterflies go once they are adults.

Math- For Math this week we will measure our body parts with a tape measure. We will also explore two dimensional shapes and become familiar with base-10 blocks. Later in the week we will tell time on the quarter hour.

 

 

Book Orders- This is the last chance to order books through Scholastic...

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What We Have Been Learning

Math- This week we are beginning a new math unit. Please read the home link pages we sent with math homework this week. Today we focused on reading thermometers and we talked about Fahrenheit vs. Celsius. We will also learn to measure & compare lengths using our hands feet & arms, we will learn about the inch & foot, and we will learn how to measure lengths of objects in inches.  The math tests will be returned in Monday folders next week.

Theme- We finished learning about animals today. Tomorrow we will begin our last unit on Water. For the rest of the year we will learn about the water cycle, the three states of water: gas, liquid & solid, and we will learn how water creates energy with hydro-electricity. This week we do several investigations to learn about the different properties of water.

 

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Earth Day- Earth day is Tuesday, April 22. We will do some activities in the...

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What We Have Been Doing

Math- We are finishing up our Math chapter this week. We will explore domino patterns and use them to practice all the basic addition facts. We will also review Chapter 3 which consits of visual patterns, number patterns and counting. We will have a math test on Thursday.

Theme- For theme this week we are finishing our animal unit. We will study fish and invertebrates this week. On Friday the students will share their animal riddles that they made for homework this week. We will also learn interesting facts about all kinds of animals. Ask your child what they have learned this week.

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Theme Homework- Please make sure your child complete the What Am I? page for homework this week. They must turn it in by Friday so that we can do our activity in the afternoon. Half-day students may do this homework if they would like and participate with us.

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What We Have Been Doing:

Math- This week we will be working with money. We will learn how to count pennies, nickels, and dimes all together. We will also have a "data day" where the students will read all types of graphs and interpret data. There will be a math test early next week.

Theme- We will learn about Mammals and Amphibians this week. The students also learn about the different ways vertebrates grow.

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Library- We will go to the library this Thursday. Some students have not turned in their library books. They may not check another book out until they turn in their library books. We sent home yellow sheets of paper that will let you know if your child has an overdue book.

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Africa Projects- The students did a great job on their Africa projects. It...

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We are working with time again this week. We will review the basic concepts of telling time and work on telling time to the hour and half hour.  We will also work with Frames and Arrows. Frames and Arrow diagrams provide children with a way to organize work with sequences. You will see these diagrams next week for homework. At the end of the week we will work with dimes and more money.

 

 

We finished up Birds today. This week we will learn about reptiles and mammals. We also created an April calendar. The students will bring the calendars home today.

 

 

 

 

Graduation is fast approaching.  Committees for food, decorations, hat making, invitations and more are now being formed.  A flyer will go home Monday March 31st with information on who to contact if you would like to help on a committee.  There are lots to do if you want to get involved.  Graduation is the last day of school, June 5th.  The students come as usual...

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