Announcements
Service Opportunity: Three REMS sixth graders are doing a service project to make kits for the homeless in Denver. They are assigning each grade to donate a certain item, and for kindergarten, they are asking for us to donate Emergency Blankets or small throw blankets. If you would like to support this project please send in items by May 14th. Their goal is to make 30 bags. Let's make it happen!
Repeated for Reference: Camp Elim Information: Here is the slideshow presented at the Camp Elim Informational Meeting. Please review that you have everything on the SPRING VOYAGE GEAR LIST: GRADE K including rain pants, wool socks, and hiking shoes.
HELPFUL HINT: If you are buying new hiking shoes, please make sure that your child has time to break them in before our two long hikes and practices how to tie them.
-Letter & Number Formation Volunteers (M, Tu, & Th 8:30-9)
-Reading Volunteers (M, Tu, Th, Fri 9:25-9:50)
-Teacher Helper Volunteers (at home projects- Friday; in-classroom helper Friday morning; and iPad helper Friday afternoon)
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Crew Highlights
Learning Update:
In reading, we have continued Unit 9 on Wants and Needs. Our focus has been identifying the central idea & important details, drawing inferences, and creating Venn Diagrams to compare & contrast texts. These themes were challenging and abstract to our crew in the beginning of the year, and now, it is exciting to hear them quickly and easily answer comprehension questions in our mentor text and in their own reading books. *After reading, ask your child to tell you the main idea (what is this text (or page) mostly about? What is an important detail? *During reading, ask your child to make an inference: use clues from the picture and text plus your background knowledge to infer something new that helps you understand the story better).
In Writing, we are wrapping up our opinion writing unit. Students selected a piece of writing to take through the publishing process. We have worked on revising to add more words and add more color to the pictures. We have also worked on editing for spelling of sight words, capitalization, and punctuation. Students are reflecting on their self-selected writing goal to identify current progress and next steps, such as did they tell three reason why. We will finish the publishing process next week! *What is something that you added or changed with your writing to make it better?
In Phonics, we have finished the alphabet! Hooray! Now we are working on the long a sound. The word "tap" has a short /a/ sound. To make it a long /a/ sound, you add the e to make "tape." We practiced on a number of words to gain familiarity with the "sneaky e" and build understanding around when/why to add a silent e. Our word family this week was -ame: name, tame, fame, same, game, came, and blame. We added of and what to our sight word list. *Here are our latest sight words.
In math, we are working on Word Problems with Two Unknown Addends. We have been using counters and drawing pictures to help solve and write equations for simple word problems where the total is known, and students have to choose two numbers that can be added together to create that sum. For example: If I have 9 flowers, how many might be red and yellow? This helps with increasing understanding around math facts that equal a given number. *Continue your great practice of 0-10 facts at home, in addition and subtraction.
*Describe the sunflower life cycle. *What is a new fact that you have learned about roots, seeds, or trees?
Applause for our performers! The highlight of the week was performing Elephant and Piggie plays with Ms. Liesl. All week long, groups rehearsed and would get teacher and peer feedback about speaking parts (was your voice easy and loud enough to hear?) and about their expression (do you need to add bigger movements?). A big thank you for coming this morning to support our kindie performances! They did such a fantastic job!
Also, a big thank you to Ms. Martha for taking pictures all week long AND taking a video of each performance! Click here to see!
Happy birthday Ms. Trena! How fun to celebrate you!
