Sunday, May 3, 2015

Kindergarten News for May 4th-8th, 2015

Recap Of The Week: We continued to work on symmetry with drawing and building shapes. We also began work on a surprise project for Mother’s Day. We have been watching our caterpillars closely and they are all in the chrysalis stage. We are doing our best to wait patiently for the butterflies to emerge.

Math: This week we are going to be working on skip counting, direction words and doing some work with graphs. As we move toward the end of the year, a lot of the work we do will be revision of concepts we have covered. There will be some assessing too, to see how students are retaining what they have learned.

Literacy: Please keep reading with your child as those mini-books come home. Practice at home reinforces the learning at school. Our sight words for this week ‘funny,’ ‘go,’ ‘me,’ ‘my,’ and ‘not.’ Throughout the week students make flash cards, figure out which words go in which shape box, make word pyramids, match words in different fonts, and create their very own word search to give to a friend to solve.

Writing:  Our story starters this week be “If I lived in a tree-house …” and “When I grow up …”

Science, Social Studies & Art: As I mentioned at the beginning, our caterpillars have built their chrysalises. We moved them into the butterfly net and we are super excited for them to hatch. We did not get to planting  seeds last week, so we will do that this week. We also will be working on our surprises for Mother’s Day.

Seussical Jr. Play: Our school field trip to see the Seussical Jr play presented by the Journey Theater Company is on May 19th! We will be going either to the 9:30 or 11:45 performance on Tuesday May 19th at the theater in Fort Vancouver High School. Unfortunately the earlier show sold out, so please let Teacher Katie or me know if you would like to go to the later performance. There will be no school on this day. For more information about the show, check out this link: http://www.journeytheater.org/shows/seussical-tya/

Family Fun Night: Our last Family Fun Night of the year will be on May 21st. The theme will be Math & Science.

Art ala Carte Fundraiser: We are partnering with Art ala Carte on Saturday May 9th from 9-1. Families can go there and kids can get messy and creative with all sorts of art media and activities! Art ala Carte will donate 50% of sales during those hours back to the preschool!!!

Other Fundraisers:
- Box Tops for Education,
- Fred Meyer (you can support our school by going to https://www.fredmeyer.com/topic/community-rewards-4 and adding Little Acorn to your rewards account),
- Scholastic Book Orders (http://www.scholastic.com/ our school code is GX4F3),
- Shoparoo: Little Acorn is now a member of Shoparoo (shoparoo.com). You can download the Shoparoo App to earn points for our school.

Volunteering: The end of the school year is approaching. If you still need to fill your volunteer hours for the year, Playground Clean-up will be on Saturday May 16th from 9:00-11:00. There are still some spots available on Fridays to sign up to volunteer in class too. Come see what your Kindergartner is doing. Your time in class is very helpful. You get a chance to see what our day is like and how your child is interacting. A new sign-up sheet is outside the classroom for this trimester. If Fridays don’t work for you and you would like to volunteer in the classroom, just let me know and let’s see if we can find a time that does work with your schedule.

Little Acorn Mascots: Our school has two new furry friends! Sam and Sally are sweet stuffed squirrels who love to travel. If you would like to take Sam or Sally to travel with you on your next trip just ask Katie in the office!

Sickness: If your Kindergartener is sick, please call the school office, or you can send me an email or a text so we can keep track of illnesses.

Please feel free to contact me if you have questions or concerns. Send a text, give me a call, or you can email. I am here to help you and your child have a great kindergarten year!

Thank you for sharing your child with us,
Teacher Sinead & Teacher Caroline

Dates to remember:
May
16th
Playground Clean-up from 9:00-11:00
19th
Seussical Jr Play at 9:30
21st
Kindred Visit
25th
Memorial Day – No School
30th
Fit-n-Fun at First – FUMC Family Fun Run
June
1st
Tuition Due – ½ off for June
9th
Kindergarten Graduation at 10:00 upstairs in Jason Lee
10th
All School Picnic / Last Day of School 9:30-12:30

Tuition Prices 2014-2015 School Year
2 days a week $190.00 a month
3 days a week $245.00 a month
4 days a week $300.00 a month
5 days a week $355.00 a month
Kindergarten $405.00 a month

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