2021 May Week 2 Bugs~

Hey, Hello There, Superior Hiking Trail!

We checked off another section during Mother's Day weekend and still made it home to have a meal with the kids! Only about 90 miles to go out of the 325+.  Someday we will be done! Someday...

 

(we did not make the rock cairns...just photographed them.  Jeez, people fuss over EVERYTHING these days!  Yes, rock cairns are controversial on the North Shore.  I think they are lovely!)

Here's me and my hubby after walking the mostly uphill 6 mile hike!

My Garmin device said we hiked 226 Flights of stairs up and only 116 down.  Yikes! Tent camping works when you are so tired you'd sleep anywhere! Haha!

Don't you just love MAY!

The one problem is May is the FASTEST month ever.

I think it is because we have soooo many things to wrap up for the end of the year.

Sadly that means my camera is often a second thought and I do not get to capture too many of our wonderful projects. It happens every year. Sigh.

This week in Kindergarten we learned about bugs...

Specifically butterflies and bees !

Here are some photos of our wonderful, fast week:

We have a new center...clocks!!!

Pardon these out of order photos...this was Thursday's art project.

We are beginning the pond unit so we created these lovely lotus blossoms!

One of our centers this week was NUMBER WORDS honey bee style!

This chart is for Kk day as we count down the days to summer.

We focused on KINDNESS!  

The kids put up a heart for every example of kindness they could think of.

Wow! What a kind world we live in.

We love our butterfly forest! Scroll down to see the process...

These kiddos made the 100 Club!

Just a few more to go and we have 100% of students counting to this important number!

Working...

These logic problems were very good for our brains!

Choice Time!

Yes, that's a pond right in our classroom!

Our butterfly project took 2 days to complete!

And they are BEAUTIFUL!

This painting was a lesson in SYMMETRY!

Centers on Wednesday had us building our own symmetrical butterfly!

Tuesday was Letter Ii day...Italian Icees!

Letter Jj day JOKES were great!
Thanks to all who sent theirs in.

The final family projects are looking SUNNY and SUMMERY!

Thank you!

It's not too late if you haven't done your family's yet.

The frog table is soooo much CROAKY fun!

We have sooooo many bug books!  What creepy crawly fun!

And now for the week of May 17-21:

Reading/Language Arts: Letter Yy and Qq, syllables, prepositions

Sight Words: (Our LAST ones of the year!)

*off*take*our*too*day*show*

We have learned upwards of 100 words this year!

Well, done, Kiddos!

Math: Measurement

Science: Living vs. Nonliving

and Living Things Have Needs

Theme: The Pond!!!!!

ABC COUNTDOWN:

Monday: letter Mm~Music while we work

Tuesday: Letter Nn~ New Names! We will pick a new name for the day!

Wednesday: Letter Oo~Outside for Reading time

Thursday: Letter Pp~ New Playdough

(if my Amazon order arrives on time!)

Friday: Letter Qq~Queens and Kings of Kindergarten!

BIG NEWS:
10:00 Start on Monday, May 17

No School for Everyone on Monday, May 31

Last Day of School for Kids is Friday, June 4