Week 36 Letter Jj, star word 'are', THE POND!

Just a few more weeks to go...12 days left at the writing of this blog!

We are really trying hard to get in our

 MILK BREAK MAY time

but Mother Nature is not cooperating!

Here we are on Monday, the kids are snuggled behind me as I apparently make a good wind break!

What they don't know is they were keeping me warm as well!

On Monday we began the pond unit by creating these lovely pond lillies!

 We made two sets, one for the ceiling lights (thank you, Pinterest)...

 and one to decorate the room with!

Here is our Pond Discovery Table...fun!

New morning challenges included:

Frog Missing Numeral... 

 Pond Lilly Numeric Order...

 and telling time to :30...a tough one!

 Tuesday's Centers were:

Frog Subtraction...

Reading a Graph with Pond Themes...

Pond Measurement...

and counting by 5s with the blue birds of happiness!

 Here we are playing in the pond!

This is a sneak peek of a surprise for you!

On Wednesday's we have guided drawing and word lists in our writing journals.

The kids are such hard workers!

On this day we practiced Jj's, learned how to draw jellyfish 

(we even drew a peanut butter and jelly fish sandwich! Get it? Ha!), and wrote our word list including a sentence to finish.

The kids will be bringing these home next Wednesday for the year!  Hopefully they will keep writing and drawing throughout the summer!

Here is our clever Jj snack...jelly sandwiches!

Oh, this looks like fun...creating turtles!

Mosaic turtles, even! 

 Here they are all grouped together!

Adorable!

I will be leaving at noon on Thursday for a long overdue visit with my son, Graham, in Atlanta, Georgia!

Here are the centers that Mrs. Olsen will be doing with the kiddos...

Pond and Meadow Animal Sort...

Froggy Word Search...

Froggy Addition...

and Turtle Listening for the letter Tt

(beginning, middle, end?)

Here is another fun activity at the pond area...

Good Reads....

And now for the week of May 18-21...

Reading: Review all sounds and letters and star words

Math: finish calendar, begin graphing

Science: What things fall down?

Social Studies: Friendship

Theme: Pond and Insects

BIG NEWS:

Please join us Tuesday, May 19 for free Parent Breakfast from 7-8am!

No School Friday, May 22-Monday May 25

Oxbow Field Trip Friday, May 29

Family Picnic and Spring Concert, Wednesday, June 3

Last Student Day Thursday, June 4

Week 35 Letter Uu, star word 'he', birds and flowers!

Our year is going by sooo quickly!

This first full week in May we learn about birds and flowers!

On Monday we created this adorable little nest of birdies...

 We also began our MILK BREAK MAY outside PLAY!

 Unfortunately the rain kept us in most of the week.

 These beauties are in the hallway, come take a peek!

Tuesday's centers included:

Star Word Search in a BOTTLE!

 Creating Words...silly or real?

Animals have body parts...

and TIME to the HOUR...

Hey hey hey!

Our Kindergarten Pizza Parlor is OPEN!

Our latest morning challenges include:

Birdie Numeric Order 77-100

Birdie Sentence Building...

Birdie Addition...

It was my turn to bring snack on Uu day,

so Sorcha, my daughter, helped create these 

UPSIDE DOWN CUPCAKES with UMBRELLAS!

We had to shake the cup to get the sprinkles on the upside down frosting!

Wednesday was also our LAST switch-a-roo day for the year!

We went to Mrs. Pilger and Mrs. Kalmes' room to create Mothers' Day surprises!

Wednesday afternoon we painted FLOWERS for our MOMS!

 So "Impressionistic" , so pretty!

 All week long we've been making these adorable bird houses from our milk cartons and seed packets!

If you've ever a chance, we'd love to take your old seed packets off your hands to use for future projects!

Thursday's Centers:
Telling time to the half hour...

 Number Word Search...

 Bingo 2 addend addition...

Roll-a-Word  2 letter

 The Bird Center is up and running...love these little bird watchers!

Now for the week of May 11-15

Reading: Letter Jj, short u, star word 'are' , characters and setting

Math: Calendar

Science: Pushes and Pulls

BIG NEWS:Our library days are now on THURSDAY until the end of the year
No School Fridays, May 8, 15, 22

Breakfast for Parents Tuesday, May 19 from 7-8 

(free breakfast for you as we say THANK YOU!)
No School Monday, May 25
Oxbow Field Trip Friday, May 29
Family Picnic and Kindergarten Concert Wednesday, June 3
Last Day of School Thursday, June 4