It is hard to believe that school is now over and summer is beginning. Thank you to all of you for a terrific year.  These kids rocked it out in another year that was so full of unknowns when we started back in August. I am so proud of how far these kiddos have come in their learning and overall growth this year! You all now have 1st graders!  

Thank you for all of the kind emails, cards and gifts this last week and over the course of the year.  I have truly loved being your child’s teacher and I feel honored to have been a small part of their educational journey. I hope you all have a fantastic summer and I am looking forward to seeing your sweet 1st grader in the hallway next year!  

-Mrs. Tindall

 

 

Tomorrow, June 8th is an early release day and our last day of school!  

School will dismiss by 12:15pm. 

If you wish to order a sack lunch for your child, please email me by 9:00am tomorrow morning. 

I am looking forward to a fun last morning tomorrow with our class!

Enjoy these fun pictures from our week:)

Tuesday:

 

Wednesday:

 

Thursday: Kindergarten Olympics

         

 

Friday:

Happy Birthday:

We had a blast celebrating Kayley this week!  She turned 6 on Thursday.

Mystery Reader:

Ella was super excited to see her dad walk in as our last Mystery Reader for this school year!  Mr. Thelen read us, “Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late”.  Thank you so much for reading to us, Mr. Thelen!

Important Dates

• Monday, June 6…Gym, Mrs. Tindall will be out of the classroom 
• Tuesday, June 7…No Special, Talent Show Fun
• Wednesday, June 8…Last Day of School, Early Release at 12:15pm
• Thursday, June 9…Happy Birthday, Matthew

Popcorn Words:

Review

Writers Workshop:

Next week we are wrapping up our small moment writing.  The piece we will work on will be our final and last writing piece for this school year!  My goal is to grade these writing pieces and send them home by the end of the week. 

 

 

American Symbols:

This week the kinders learned all about an American Symbol each day of the week.  They learned about these symbols with:

• Reading or listening to a book about the American symbol.
• Making a craft of the American symbol.
• Completing a math activity.
• Finding popcorn words.

 

 Statue of Liberty

 White House

 

 The Eagle

The American Flag

Red, White and Blue Day

On Friday we celebrated Memorial Day by wearing red, white and blue.  The kids enjoyed red, white and blue popsicle outside on the playground. Check out the red, white and blue fun below:)

 

Important Information

1. Snack Time:  Please send two healthy snacks with your child every day and discuss with your child which snack is for the morning and which one is for afternoon. 
2. Please remember to send in a water bottle for your child.

3. We still have one need yet for our kindergarten olympic day! If you are interested in donating, check out the sign up below.

     Kindergarten Olympics.

 

Important Dates

• Monday, May 30…Memorial Day-No School
• Tuesday, May 31…Gym, Take Home Books Due
• Wednesday, June 1…Art
• Thursday, June 2…STEAM, Kindergarten Olympics, Pizza Lunch Outside, Happy Birthday Kayley!
• Friday, June 3…Music
• Monday, June 6…Gym, Mrs. Tindall will be out of the classroom 
• Tuesday, June 7…No Special, Talent Show Fun
• Wednesday, June 8…Last Day of School, Early Release at 12:15pm
• Thursday, June 9…Happy Birthday, Matthew

 

Please wear RED, WHITE and BLUE

Tomorrow-Thursday, May 26th

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We also earned another reward!

We are planning to go out for recess a little early and enjoy red, white and blue popsicles on the playground!

 

 

Popcorn Words:

Review

Fun Friday Pictures:

 

We had fun reading the Elephant and Piggie Book, “Should I Share My Ice Cream?”  We all read it together using the document camera!  The kinders absolutely loved doing this.  After we read the book, we each made our own ice cream cone out of paper.  Check out the pictures below:

Writers Workshop:

We continued on with small moment writing this week.  A small moment story is a true story from your life.  Our goal is to zoom in on this story and write a beginning, middle and end with details.  This is going to be our last writing focus for this school year.  On Monday, we worked on telling our story to our partners and drawing our cover page of the story.  On Tuesday, we wrote the beginning, on Wednesday the middle and Thursday the end!  We will continue with small moment stories for the next several weeks.

 

 

Readers Workshop:

We are now working on character connections in reading! Our lessons this week are focusing on how we can connect with the characters in the books we are reading.  We are learning that these connections help us to deeper understand the characters in the books.  By understanding the characters better, we are comprehending and more and more in our reading!  Our big focus this week was using the chart below to help us with these connections.

 

Math:

This week in math we told, retold and solved addition and subtraction stories!  On Monday we worked closely with our teen number groups and built numbers 11-20 using 10 groups and ones on our blue mat.  We also fluently subtracted numbers 0-10.  On Tuesday, we compared the number of objects in a group and used the words greater and less for comparing.  Later in the week we compared length, weight and height of various objects.  Next week, we plan to wrap up this unit in math and take our last math test.  

 

Star Student:

Meet Quinn

Quinn was our star student this week!  We learned her favorite color is green, she likes to eat hamburgers and her favorite books are Biscuit books!  She enjoys the sport of softball and she loves to play with her friends when we are in school. Three super cool facts that we learned about Quinn are… 1. She has spotted a Manatee before in Florida. 2. She has a family of geese living on her pond. 3. She has two friends that live right by her. Thanks for being a wonderful star student this week, Quinn! 

Thank you!

A big “thank you” goes out Mrs. Shisler (Kayla’s mom) for our May book donation!  Mrs. Shisler’s family and friends donated money so we could get a new book each month!  This month, our book was “Never Let a Dinosaur Scribble” by Diane Alber.

 

Important Information

1. We still have our rest time/whiteboard time daily, so please send back those washed towels/blankets on Monday, May 23.
2. Many of our whiteboard markers are starting to run out.  If you wish, you may send in new markers for your child.  I will make sure they get in their whiteboard marker pouch.
3. Snack Time:  Please send two healthy snacks with your child every day and discuss with your child which snack is for the morning and which one is for afternoon.
4. The kindergarten teachers are planning for our annual kindergarten olympics and we are looking for some help with making this time “extra special” for your child.  If you are interested and would like to donate to our Kindergarten Olympics please check out our Olympics Sign Up link: Kindergarten Olympics.
5. If you are interested in volunteering for our annual kindergarten olympics, please let me know! Olympics will be held on the morning of June 2.

 

Important Dates

• Monday, May 23…Music
• Tuesday, May 24…Gym, Library, Take Home Books Due
• Wednesday, May 25..Art
• Thursday, May 26…STEAM, Wear Red, White and Blue, “Bring Take Home” books to school:)
• Friday, May 27…No School
• Monday, May 30…No School, Memorial Day

The kindergarten teachers are planning for our annual kindergarten olympics and we are looking for some help with making this time “extra special” for your child.  If you are interested and would like to donate to our Kindergarten Olympics please check out our Olympics Sign Up link:

  Kindergarten Olympics.

Also, if you are interested in volunteering for our annual kindergarten olympics, please let me know! Olympics will be held on the morning of June 2.

Just a quick FYI: Mrs. Tindall will be absent Tuesday, May 17….all day.  I will be chaperoning the 1st grade field trip to the zoo.  I told the kindergarteners this news at the end of our day.  If you have any transportation changes or your child will be absent, please email or call the office.

 

Popcorn Words:

play, day, up, away

Fun Friday Pictures:

We had fun completing a spring activity and reading the book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle.  Check out some pictures of our fun below:

Writers Workshop:

We switched gears with our writing and we are now writing small moment stories.  A small moment story is a true story from your life.  Our goal is to zoom in on this story and write a beginning, middle and end with details.  This is going to be our last writing focus for this school year.  On Monday, we worked on telling our story to our partners and drawing our cover page of the story.  On Tuesday, we wrote the beginning, on Wednesday the middle and Thursday the end!  We will continue with small moment stories for the next several weeks.

 

 

Readers Workshop:

We continued to learn about characters this week in reading.  On Tuesday we learned more about the characters in our stories from what the other characters in the story are doing.  On Wednesday, we zoomed in on our characters and discussed how it is important to look at them closely and really get to know each character.  On Thursday, we discussed the importance of looking at a character’s face to decide how the character is feeling.  We then made connections by thinking of a time when maybe we felt the same way as our character!  We continued to use the Character Round Up chart with each of these lessons.

 

Math:

This week in math we found the unknown partner when the total and one partner are known. We also found the total of two partners.  On Tuesday, we told, retold and solved addition and subtraction stories.  We also compared the number of objects in two groups and took away objects to make groups equal.  On Wednesday we visualized teen numbers as ten ones and further ones.  We also compared the number of objects in groups.  On Thursday we compared sets using the words greater and less.  

 

Star Student:

Meet Laken

Laken was our star student this week!  We learned so many fun new facts about him.  We learned his favorite color is blue, he likes to shrimp and his favorite book is, “Hot Lava”!  He enjoys the sport of basketball and he loves to participate in gym class when we are in school. Three super cool facts that we learned about Laken are 1. He went to Mackinac Island. 2. He plays baseball. 3. He plays basketball. Thanks for being a wonderful star student this week, Laken! 

 

Important Information

1. We still have our rest time/whiteboard time daily, so please send back those washed towels/blankets on Monday, May 16.
2. Many of our whiteboard markers are starting to run out.  If you wish, you may send in new markers for your child.  I will make sure they get in their whiteboard marker pouch.
3. Please remember to send a coat and even a hat/gloves with your child each day.  The days can still be a bit chilly.
4. Donation Needs in our Classroom: Sidewalk chalk, white board markers, lysol wipes and extra snacks.
5. Snack Time:  Please send two healthy snacks with your child every day and discuss with your child which snack is for the morning and which one is for afternoon.
6. Take Home Book Sign Up–  We still have open spots to be a take home book helper!  ! If you are interested, please check out the sign up

 

Important Dates

• Monday, May 16…STEAM
• Tuesday, May 17…Music, Library, Take Home Books Due, Mrs Tindall will be gone with 1st grade to the zoo (Mrs. Jager is subbing)
• Wednesday, May 18..Gym
• Thursday, May 19…Art
• Friday, May 20…STEAM, Take Home Books Due
• Friday, May 27…No School
• Monday, May 30…No School, Memorial Day

 

Popcorn Words:

by, my, one

Fun Pictures from this Week:

We had fun playing during indoor play, making cows and planting seeds on Friday!

 

 

 

Writers Workshop:

We finished our informational writing piece this week and took our assessment on Thursday morning! On Monday, we started our week of informational writing by putting together a KWL of cows.  We first wrote down everything we know and want to know about cows.  Then we watched some informational videos and read some informational text on cows to learn even more!  On Tuesday we wrote down what cows have, can do and what they are.  On Wednesday and Thursday we took the information we learned and on our own, wrote it down to create an informational book all about cows! This informational book will be graded and used for our final report card grade on informational writing.

 

 

Readers Workshop:

We focused on learning all about characters in books this week.  The kinders enjoyed picking new books for their book boxes that are a combination of fiction books and their leveled readers.  We found characters in our books and explored many different aspects of these characters.  The kinders got to know Little Red Reading Hood from the book, Little Red Reading Hood by James Marshall.  We practiced discovering more about Little Red Riding Hood by looking at other characters in the book, looking at how she was illustrated, and even used our own voices to copy Little Red Reading Hood in the book.

 

Math:

This week in math we finished up our teen number book.  This book encouraged us to focus in on those teen numbers by identifying the ten group and the extra ones.  On Tuesday, we related 10-partner drawings to addition equations and found the changes in partners of 10.  On Wednesday, we counted by ones and tens to 100 and found partners of 10 by writing and discussing 7-partners.  On Thursday, we equalized the two number groups by adding and we found partners of 7, 8 and 9.

 

Star Student:

Meet Ella

Ella was our star student this week!  We learned so many fun new facts about Ella.  We learned her favorite color is teal, she likes to eat tomato soup and her favorite book is, “The Book with No Pictures”!  She enjoys the sport of gymnastics and she loves to play inside when she is at school. Three super cool facts that we learned about Ella are 1. She loves butterflies. 2. She loves to go camping 3. She has cousins that live in Minnesota. Thanks for being a wonderful star student this week, Ella! 

 

Happy Birthday:

On Tuesday we celebrated Greyson’s 7th birthday!

 

Important Information

1. We still have our rest time/whiteboard time daily, so please send back those washed towels/blankets on Monday, May 2.
2. Many of our whiteboard markers are starting to run out.  If you wish, you may send in new markers for your child.  I will make sure they get in their whiteboard marker pouch.
3. Please remember to send a coat and even a hat/gloves with your child each day.  The days can still be a bit chilly.
4. Donation Needs in our Classroom: Sidewalk chalk, white board markers, lysol wipes and extra snacks.
5. Snack Time:  Please send two healthy snacks with your child every day and discuss with your child which snack is for the morning and which one is for afternoon.
6. Mystery Reader Sign Up–  We still have a few open spots to be a mystery reader this month! If you are interested, please check out the sign up

 

Important Dates

• Monday, May 9…Art
• Tuesday, May 10…STEAM, Library, Take Home Books Due
• Wednesday, May 11..Music
• Thursday, May 12…Gym
• Friday, May 13…Art, Take Home Books Due