May 2nd - 6th

Happy May to You!  We are looking forward to a Marvelous May Week.

Reading 
-Phonic Reader - The Bug Hut
-Building Words with short vowels (a, e, i, o, u)
-Digraphs - th, -ch (review -sh)
-Introduce the two vowel rule (rat, rate)
-Leveled Readers
-Story sequencing
-Mystery words & sentence writing
-Rotation Stations

Math
-Telling time to the hour and half-hour
-Times of events
-Problem Solving using Logical Reasoning
-The Store - Coin sorting and money counting
-Vocabulary:  clock, hands, hour, o'clock

Bible
-Paul - The First Missionary
-Character trait - Joy
-Target Truth - We need to have joy in every
                      situation!

Early Morning 
-Academic tubs
-Devotion
-Morning Message
-Pledges

Lunch Bunch 
-Smart board activities
-Plants
-Assessments

April 25-29

Reading
*digraphs-SPLASH-big book
*writing directions
*story structure/plot
*short e and short u-ug,ut,en
*sight word review

Math
TIME
*Max's Late Morning-interactive story
*more/less time
*order of the day-(morning,afternoon,evening, day & night)
*sequence of events-(first, next, last, before & after)
*clock face

Bible
Jesus Lives Again!!
Jesus Begins His Church
*Target Truth-God wants us to learn how wrong sin is and how much it hurts us.

 Lunchbunch
*smartboard games and activities
*plants/insects art
*assessments

April 18th - 21st

Wow!  The Froggy Store was a big success!  Each child took the coins they had earned and went shopping.  Our senior friend, Julie Trumble, helped to run the store.  The children had a choice to spend all of their coins, save them to buy a more expensive item next week, or spend some/save some.  They each had the opportunity to count out their money to pay for the item they chose. Next, they helped count out their change.  What a fun learning experience.  The Froggy Store will be open each Friday until the end of the year (Wednesday - this week only). Thank you for donating items.  This class is very motivated!  They love to shop! (Me, too)

  This week, we will continue with our short e word families (en, ed, et) and Easter readers.  We will complete our money unit and engage in a bit of Jelly Bean math!

  Remember, numbered eggs (#1-16) are due by Tuesday.

Our Egg Hunt is Thursday and we are out on Good Friday.

Have a blessed week!

 I want you to know how well our testing went last week.  The class did a wonderful job of listening and focusing.  I am very proud of them.  Thank you for all of your support and encouragement.  I am looking forward to a great week as we open our Froggy Store!

April 11th - 15th

Next week in Kindergarten

Reading

*Short e and short u word families

*Story building

*Using exact naming words (nouns)

*Spring stories and word charts

*Counting syllables

*Phoneme substitution (first and last )

*Phonics reader-Ken and Jen

*Journal writing:  Jelly Bean Prayer

Math

* Continue money unit
*Comparing amounts of money
*More or less
*Counting different amounts of change

*Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Hallford -“Froggy Store”

(Mrs. McDavid and Mrs. Harrison will open their stores the following week J)

*sorting, identifying and counting coins

Bible

*The Easter Story

Lunchbunch

*Smartboard reading and math games

*Spring art activities

ITBS
  I am so proud of our first two days of testing!  Our class is listening and following directions soooo well!
  This test is a great tool to help me identify strengths and weaknesses.  
  This week, we will be studying "bugs"!  We will read books by Eric
Carle, paint a class book, as well as learning about:
  -money - buying items from our store
 - short u word families
 - phonetic readers
 -vocabulary review - new word: are
What a great "bubbling" week we are having!