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Friday, May 18, 2012

May 15th-18th

Tuesday:  Today we read Quick as a Cricket.  Our new sight word is me and our star letter is Qq.  We went to the computer lab and practiced typing our ABCs.  Katie was the reader of the day and she read Fred and Ted’s Road Trip.  In math, we talked about and looked at the dollar bill.  We also answered questions about our weather graphs.  We went to music today and sang a lot of songs.  We also checked our plants and recorded our observations in our seed to plant science journals. 

Wednesday:  Today in art we made a hot air balloon basket.  We went to P.E. and played fitness Wednesday.  In R & R Joey read us The Bernstein Bears at the Aquarium.  In math we played the one dollar game.  We had our May math centers today.   We read The Patchwork Quilt.  We wrote in our journals.

Thursday:  Today in P.E. we had back-to-back buddies.  We read Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen and wrote about the beginning, middle and end and retold the story with a friend.  In math, we made name collection posters. During R & R, Daniel read us the book Flying High.  We also had handwriting and got to move our boat.  We wrote about our favorite part of kindergarten and had writer’s workshop.
Friday:  Today we went to P.E. and played outland.  Matthew was our last reader of the day and he read us the book Dinosaur Hunt.  We had a fire drill and wrote in our journals.  This morning we colored words with the /q/ sound.  We reviewed  story elements and made stories with a partner.  Each kindergartner interviewed a partner and recorded the data.  In science we talked about what plants need to grow and we also completed another page in our seed to plant journal.  In math, we created our own function machines.

Reminders: May 22nd: Field trip to the DuPage Children’s Museum
                    PTA Skate Night (6-8:00)
                    May 28th: No School
                     May 30th: Field Day (see blog for more information)
                     May 31st: Bubble Day (see blog for more information)
                    June 1st: Last day of school (10:10 Dismissal)