Classroom News

Dear Wonderful Parents,

We are well on our way into our tree unit. We have discussed characteristics of trees, who lives in trees, what grows in trees and how trees change. Now we get to jump into our inquiry about the Rainforest.

We are currently learning about howler monkeys.

• Physical features
• Food
• Predators
• Home
• Mammal

We will continue on our unit by answering the same questions above about the Sloth, Macaw Parrot and the Emerald Boa Tree Snake

We continue to add to our Jungle dramatic play area. Today we added snakes and howler monkeys and some safari dress up items.

Small Groups

Mike and I will also continue our Small Group academic work. I will continue to work with the kiddos on developing literacy skills that will guide them into Kindergarten, including :

• Letter and number recognition
• Letter sound recognition
• Hand writing
• Lower case letter recognition
• Pre-reading skills (Word tracking, CVC words, Site words, etc.)

Mike will continue to work with the kiddos on math skills that will prepare them for Kindergarten

• Measurement
• Quantity
• Counting and Comparing
• Simple Story Problems 
• Patterns
• Map making
• Graphing

Writing

We will continue to work on sentence writing during writing time in addition to our writing objectives. The book we will be writing about this week is Momo and Snap are not Friends, about a Monkey and Alligator navigating friendship. 

Things to do at home:

You can help your child explore and appreciate nature by learning about trees. Invite your child to talk about trees. Wonder aloud with your child to encourage his or her thinking about trees.

Also, ask your child about the Rain Forest/Jungle

• What there favorite part about the howler monkey is?

• What would they do if they were a howler monkey?

• Go on youtube and watch howler monkeys

• Google facts they have learned to confirm they are true, etc

 Splash Day Reminder

Something to note is we are having a splash day in place of field day. I you have any water play toys we would love for you to bring them in. We also need volunteers to help out on the day of. I will send out more information, as the day gets closer. Some items to think about are

Water balloons

Slip and slide

Cool bubble play stuff

Pool

Super soakers

And anything else you can think of.

END OF YEAR PaRtY

We would like to invite you all to our graduation celebration on the last day of School May 31^st at 9am.

The kids will walk in caps  and even get a diploma!

They are also preparing a very special performance for you!!! (Im totally gonna cry)

 In Joy,

Bergen