Our sunflowers lasted for a couple of weeks.  However, Mr. B doesn’t have a green thumb.  I couldn’t send home a cup of dirt for Mother’s Day.  So, I bought some Marigolds, Zinias, and Snapdragons for the kids to choose from.  Each of our students got to choose the flower they wanted to give their moms for Mother’s Day.

In the picture above, our children are working on writing their numbers with correct formation and touching the lines.  Our little jellbeans have come a long way since the beginning of the year.

I hope everyone had a pleasant Mother’s Day.

I can’t believe it’s already that time.  Only a few more weeks of school left.  Our last day of school will be May 25, 2012.  It has been a pleasure working with your children.  I hope that you are happy with the education they received this year.

All family relatives are invited to the ceremony (Seating – First Come, First Serve). 

Please assist in signing up for refreshments.

Also, I could use your assistance in paying for the graduation caps – $2 per student.  Thanks

Reminders:

Last week was our last homework assignment.

I have begun testing this week for the final report card.  As mentioned in an earlier post from two weeks ago http://kinderroom.com/the-final-push-kindergarten.html, I will be covering the following concepts:

• their reading level – study your color words (by sight), words – boy, girl, said
• the 50 sight words for kindergarten
• rhyming – (“What words rhyme with man?”  – can, ran, etc.)
• blending 3 letter Consonant-Vowel-Consonant words (C – A – N = can)
• Segmenting Words into their sounds (i.e. dog – “What sounds do you hear in ‘dog’?”  D – O – G )
• Phoneme Elimination – (“If I take away the c in cat, what word do I have?”)
• Comprehension – re-tell a story … identify characters … setting
• Writing -  Write a topic sentence with two supporting sentences (Capital letter to begin sentence, two finger spaces between the words, period at the end)
• Numbers – 1-30
  • Count
  • Indentify out of order
  • Order the numbers with flash cards
  • Write 1-30 in order
  • Write numbers 0-30 as they hear them out of order
  • Identify larger and smaller numbers (12 and 23 – Which is smaller?)
• Add / Subtract using counters
• Sorting by size, shape, and color
• Tell time to the hour
• Shapes – circle, square, triangle rectangle, sphere, cube, cylinder, cone
• Patterns – AB, AABB, ABC
  • i.e. of a ABC pattern would be – red, white, blue, red, white, blue, etc.

Hi Parents,

Mrs. Berghaus and Mr. Branstetter are making some monarch butterflies.  We could use your help in collecting cardboard-material egg cartons for our project (no styrofoam please) – because we are going to paint them with tempura paint.  If you can help, please bring some in before next Tuesday. 

Thanks for Your Assistance,

Hugh

Our Progress Reports went home today.  Make sure to look over your child’s progress at this point.  Please work with your child at home on any areas that need further attention.

I am making my final educational push toward our last report card in six weeks.   Please take a look at some of the concepts that I will start testing in about two weeks.

• their reading level – study your color words (by sight), words – boy, girl, said
• the 50 sight words for kindergarten
• rhyming – (“What words rhyme with [Read more...]

Our kiddos had fun making kites yesterday.  I person leading the assembly had about 7 kites that more than 6 ft. tall. 

We had a lot of fun at Amy’s Farm on Friday.  We got to pet Grandma Tina, the big Jersey cow.  Later, the kids was able to milk her too. 

We fed the pigs, pet the sheep and goats, walked through the vegetable gardens, smelled some onions, and lots more.

“THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM” – Our students were excited about searching for Easter eggs throughout our classroom.  Each student found 2-3 eggs each.  I think they had some fun. 

I enjoyed watching the expressions on their faces.

During Music the other day, we “dropped the beat” with a song called “Jungle Beats”.  The students enjoyed it.  There was a lot of movement during the song.

Here we are planting some sunflower seeds.  We will be observing the stages of plant growth over the next few weeks.