Hello! It's hard to believe school is almost over! I am so proud of my young students and how much they have learned in Kindergarten! I am almost finished administering DRAs (Developmental Reading Assessments) and I am happy to announce a significant growth in reading levels! It makes my heart happy to see the kiddos reading so well! Thanks for helping your child and please continue to read with your child during the summer. I am also thankful for our support staff who have worked with a few of my students. It has definitely made a difference in their progress! I hope all mothers had a nice Mother's Day! The kiddos had so much fun creating cards for you! Here are some photos:
Last week we started a unit on Zoo Animals. Since I was administering the DRAs, we didn't have time to complete all the activities. So, this week they had time to finish their projects. We focused on giraffes and zebras and the kiddos learned lots of new facts like the following: Giraffes sleep standing up with one eye open! I'm sure if you ask your child, they will tell you lots of new things they learned about these two animals! They also learned how to compare and contrast by using a Venn Diagram.
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Here are a few of the books I read aloud:
This week is our "Science Fun Week". Due to the rainy weather, we have not been able to paint with bubbles. But hopefully next week we will have nicer weather! However, the kiddos were able to make butter. They were amazed when their liquid cream turned into a "solid" by shaking it up in a small jar. Afterwards everyone enjoyed eating our butter on warm biscuits!
Today we decorated t-shirts! We used colored sharpies, plastic cups, and rubbing alcohol! They turned out so cute. The kiddos will be able to bring them home on Thursday (5/15/14) and are encouraged to wear them on our field trip on Friday. I will post pictures soon! Also I want to share some pictures of our hatched eggs (from my former post in April) when the kiddos were learning about oviparous animals. All the kindergarten students were so thrilled when the eggs started hatching!
Here are some dates to remember: Friday, May 16th is our field trip! Monday, May 19th is Kindergarten Graduation at 7:00 in the High School gym. Please have your child there by 6:45. The children have practiced a few songs with Ms. Samuel and are super excited about their graduation ceremony. I'll see you all there! :)
~ Mrs. Eilenstine
