May 1st, 2016
Welcome Spring! The flowers are starting to show themselves (a little) and we are getting closer to the end of the school year. The students are excited and tired these days. It is harder to get my own daughters to bed on time but we all need to attempt to do so. They are much less agreeable when they are tired (myself included).
We start May with our Plant Theme. We will be planting bean seedsand marigolds and watching them grow. Our new Inquiry Question is – What is a seed? and do all plants have seeds? Then we will also explore the Jungle near the end of the month. Our final themes will be Insects and Bugs and the End of the Year.
Literacy
Several students continue to work with me on letters and sounds. Other students who have consistently been bringing back books have continued to exchange books each week. I will be bumping some of them up to the next reading levels if they are ready for it. We will continue to work on the Letters – printing, sounds and journal writing as well as segmenting words into sounds and our Kindergarten sight words.
Numeracy
Sorting, patterns, numbers 1-10 and the many ways to make them are continued with these new themes.
Dates to remember;
Mental Health Week May 1 – 5th
Tuesday, May 2nd – Take 5 from 8:00-8:25am.
Wednesday, May 3rd : Hats on for Mental Health!, Library Day! Please return books – we have many overdue.
Friday, May 5th: Family Lunch and Dance Party. Afternoon Assembly.
Wednesday, May 10th: Gr1&2 Spring Concert – We will watch at 1:30pm but it also is being performed at 6:30pm Library and Pizza Day!
Friday, May 12th: Book Orders Due
Sunday, May 14th – Mother’s Day
Wednesday, May 17th: Trip to Banff Museum and Whyte Museum (AM), Library Day!
Friday, May 19th: No School for Kindergarten
Monday, May 22nd: Victoria Day – no school
Wednesday, May 24th: Library and Pizza Day!
Thursday, May 25th: Elizabeth Rummel School 25th Anniversary Assembly 1:30.
Wednesday, May 31st: Library Day.
June Field Trips to Look forward to – Jun. 8th Walk to the Public Library , Jun. 13th – Outdoor Learning Center, Jun. 22nd Policeman’s Creek Bug Hunt, Jun.27th – Last Day of Kindergarten/Summer Games in the afternoon, Jun.28th – Morning Picnic/Celebration with parents!(10am-12pm) No regular classes.
🙂 Mrs. Williamson