4/27/16

Next week we are into May, and there are only 6 weeks left of school! Again there is a lot going on!

4/28- take you child to work day. Please let us know if your child will not be in school this day. Thank you!


5/6- Mother's Day Tea. 

Kindergarten Moms or Grandma's

You are Cordially Invited To A Mother's Day Tea

Time: 8:45-9:45 a.m.

Location:  Lobby Area at School

Please RSVP at your soonest convenience.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU!

5/14-  Our annual auction! There is great company and wonderful things to buy! This year the theme is A Night in Italy. A fun event that supports our school, you won't want to miss it!

-The kindergarten class this year will be donating a rainy day basket. To make our basket we will need board games, coloring books and crayons, books, movies, puzzles, and any thing else you think would be perfect for a rainy day. I just bought the umbrella and set it out in the foyer to begin to fill and get ready. 

6/2- Our whole school zoo field trip! If you would like to volunteer let me know! Permission slips were sent out last week! Because this is a larger field trip we are asking that siblings stay home. Thank you for your understanding!

6/7- Father's Field Day. We will be going to Kline Line park for a Father's Day Field Day. This is a fun day to show appreciation for our Father's while playing some games and having fun!

6/10- last day of school/ Kindergarten Graduation/ half day!

Week at a glance

Reading- continuing to work on substituting sounds and reading our leveled readers. We have also been talking a lot about characters. setting, problems, and solutions in our stories. This would be a wonderful thing to reinforce at home as well!

Writing- We just finished our Informational Text Unit and had our Writer's Celebration on Tuesday. I keep their best piece to put in their portfolio, but I will send the rest home.

Math- We just finished our unit on positional words. This was a breeze for the kiddos! Next chapter will be 2D shapes. 

Bible- In Bible we learned about the story of Zacchaeus. We talked about how even if we lie or still we c an still make it right by apologizing and repenting.

*Our Bible verses will become a little more difficult. We will be reciting Psalm 23 for our graduation. This is a long verse but a powerful one! We will learn little chunks along with the signs leading up to graduation* 

Our Authors Page Photo to go in our published book! They are so darn cute! We should be receiving our books by the end of the month!

Spanish

Music

Congratulations Tyler and Mylah on their Fruit of the Spirit Awards for Faithfulness and Goodness

Chapel with our CEF group

April 22, 2016

Happy Friday Kindergarten Parents,

We are having another exciting week in our classroom!  The beautiful weather has been a special bonus for us.  I wish we could move our desks outside, but we did sneak in a few extra minutes at recess to catch up on our lack of vitamin D!

We have a lot events happening in the next few months so I am repeating them again as an extra reminder:

4/28- take you child to work day. Please let us know if your child will not be in school this day. Thank you!

4/26- Writers Celebration! All parents are welcome to come and share in this fun with us! We will hold our celebration at 2:15.

5/6- Mother's Day Tea. 

Kindergarten Moms or Grandma's

You are Cordially Invited To A Mother's Day Tea

Time: 8:45-9:45 a.m.

Location:  Lobby Area at School

Please RSVP at your soonest convenience.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU!

5/14-  Our annual auction! There is great company and wonderful things to buy! This year the theme is A Night in Italy. A fun event that supports our school, you won't want to miss it!

-The kindergarten class this year will be donating a rainy day basket. To make our basket we will be needing a bubble umbrella, board games, coloring books and crayons, books, movies, puzzles, and any thing else you think would be perfect for a rainy day. A note will also be sent home next week. Thank you so much for your support! I look forward to seeing how our basket turns out!

6/2- Our whole school zoo field trip! If you would like to volunteer let me know! Permission slips were sent out this week! Because this is a larger field trip we are asking that siblings stay home. Thank you for your understanding!

6/7- Father's Field Day. We will be going to Kline Line park for a Father's Day Field Day. This is a fun day to show appreciation for our Father's while playing some games and having fun!

6/10- last day of school/ Kindergarten Graduation/ half day!

Our Week At A Glance:

The Letter this week is Uu.

Sight words: Do, Down

Math:  We are starting a new chapter about Positions.  Such as, Up, Down, Above, Below, Under, Next to...

Science:  Earth Week

Bible:  Lazarus

Have a Wonderful and Restful Weekend,

Mrs. Palmer and Mrs. Lee

In celebration of earth day we talked about and experimented with oil spills. (Yes,  I know I was very brave to put large bowls of water in the middle of a kindergarten filled table! )

They experimented with the best ways to clean up an oil spill.  

I'm so proud of what they took away from this.  One girl told her mom they need to make less messes so they don't have to use as many paper towels because it's killing the trees! Her mom was on board with this; )

4/14/2016

I hope everyone is adjusting from coming back from Spring break. I know it was a little tough for our family! Besides being a little more wiggly, the kids are doing great! I will start by saying I am sorry for the lack of pictures this week! 

Dates not to miss!

4/22- Spring/ kindergarten graduation pictures. Next Friday students will be taking their graduation pictures. To order pictures look in your child's folder for a half sheet with ordering imformation.

4/28- take you child to work day. Please let us know if your child will not be in school this day. Thank you!

4/26- Writers Celebration! All parents are welcome to come and share in this fun with us! We will hold our celebration at 2:15.

5/6- Mother's Day Tea. I will know the exact time next week, so keep your eyes out for an invitation! The tea is about an hour long. Students do a little performance, have a gift for you, and share tea, juice and cookies together. They get so excited about this day, it's definitely not one you want to miss!

5/14-  Our annual auction! There is great company and wonderful things to buy! This year the theme is A Night in Italy. A fun event that supports our school, you won't want to miss it!

-The kindergarten class this year will be donating a rainy day basket. To make our basket we will be needing a bubble umbrella, board games, coloring books and crayons, books, movies, puzzles, and any thing else you think would be perfect for a rainy day. A note will also be sent home next week. Thank you so much for your support! I look forward to seeing how our basket turns out!

6/2- Our whole school zoo field trip! If you would like to volunteer let me know! Permission slips will be going out soon! Because this is a large field trip we are asking that siblings stay home. Thank you for your understanding!

6/7- Father's Field Day. We will be going to Kline Line park for a Father's Day Field Day. This is a fun day to show appreciation for our Father's while playing some games and having fun!

6/10- last day of school/ Kindergarten Graduation/ half day!

In reading our class has been focusing on reading CVC words, reviewing our sight words and letters, and substituting first sounds. Substituting first sounds is similar to rhyming, I say "If I have the word cat and I took away the /c/ and added a /b/, what word would I have?" At first this is a difficult task, however once they relate it to rhyming or word families they understand it better. This would be a great skill to practice in the car!

We have been doing a lot of writing lately! We have been creating our own class book that will be published! I will tell you more about this soon! We are also working on our information test unit. The students have been having so much fun writing about everything they know about!

In math we h ave been learning all sorts of things! We have been learning the different way to sort objects, the values of coins, how to tell time, and we have been practicing our addition and subtraction fluency! This is the time of year that we get our little kinders ready for the first grade, and there is so much to learn. It is so fun to watch them blossom though!


In Bible we read the story of how Jesus loves the children and loves to spend time with them. We also talked about how we spend time with the people we love.

This week in science we are finishing up our unit on the ocean. The students have been having a great time learning all about the different animals. Next week we will be tying in our ocean unit with Earth Week. We will be talking about pollution in the ocean.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

3/31/16

Always time for a quick game of Candy Land.  We were sorting colors...really!

Spring puzzle to go with the sun outside!

Math station: sorting objects

Happy Friday!

It was wonderful to meet with everyone for Parent/Teacher Conferences last Friday and even a few parents this week. We are very proud of the progress our students have made!  These last few months are going to fly by and the end of the year will be here soon!

Our Week At A Glance:

Math: Sorting by color and size, and alike and different.  We are also going over addition and subtraction facts to prepare for 1st grade.

Science:  The Ocean

Reading: The letter Kk and Hh and animal leveled readers.

Writing: Non-Fiction (sorting facts).

Bible:  The 10 Lepers-  Miracles of Jesus.

Important dates and events:

Registration discount for next year ends today!!  We hope to see your child here next year!🌞

Spring Break: is next week April 4-8.  Have a fabulous vacation!!🏄

Dinner and Auction:  Saturday, May 14 at 6:00pm. 🍝

Memorial Day: Monday, May 30th.  CLOSED.  🇺🇸

Math centers: Math puzzle equations

Thanks for sharing your special kids with us!

Blessings,

Mrs. Palmer and Mrs. Lee

3/18/16

Happy Friday Kindergarten parents! We had another wonderful week and we love this sun! Here are some things coming up you should know about,

·       Thursday the 24^th is early release. We are also having preview night for new families, if there are people you know who are interested send them our way=)

·       Friday the 25^th, there will be no school. We will be having conferences this day. Please email me if you have not scheduled a spot yet.

·       Sunday the 27^th is our Easter service. We would love if you and your family can make it. Students who come will be able to sing on stage, and Pastor Carey will be giving a kid friendly Sermon. Also, there will be breakfast before, and an Easter egg hunt after!

·       This Thursday we will be having a Passover supper with the students. Students will be washing their feet, having communion, and participating in a feast just as Jesus did before his sacrifice and resurrection. If you can donate some small food items for the supper that would be wonderful! We are in need of grapes, juice, crackers, olives, and hummus. Thank you!

Here is a peek at our week!

Chapel fun!

Students learned about how Jesus washed his Disciples feet just as a servant would

Exploring the ocean!

Writer's celebration! pictures missed from last blog

Learning about measurement

3/11/16- Our Week in Pictures!

Dear Parents,

What an exciting week we had at school! Our week started with a field trip to the Portland Children's Museum.  Please see photos below.  The kid's had a blast!  The teacher's were tired, but we enjoyed ourselves too. 😉. Thank you to all the parents who came on the trip to chaperone.  You definitely worked hard and we appreciate you keeping our children safe while at the museum.

Our Week At A Glance

This week our "Letter of the Week" was Oo. In Math we are studying measurement and using linking cubes to measure things on paper and in the classroom.  We ended our Writing Unit on "Writing For A Reason."  Next week we begin persuasive writing.

Reminders:

Online Book Fair, March 13-19 Usborne Book Fair, Website:  z4497.myubam.com.  This supports Sonshine Christian Library.

March 17th- Fundraiser for Sonshine Christian Elementary at Spaghetti Factory.  Join us between 4:30-8:00PM for dinner.  Look for a flyer in your child's OWL folder.  Flyer must be presented at the restaurant.

March 24th- Early Release 12 noon.

Preview Night- 6:30pm.  Come see what's coming up for next year at Sonshine Christian.  Let friends and family know who may be interested in joining us next year!  Contact Rosemary Warner for details.

March 25th-No school. Parent/Teacher Conferences.  Please check your OWL folders for the forms or ask Mrs. Lee or Mrs. Palmer for another one.

Spring Break- April 4-8.  Have a great vacation!!

May 14th-  Dinner and Auction  at Sonshine Elementary.  Plan now for a wonderful evening with beautiful baskets and items to bid on.  The event begins at 5:30pm.

July 17-29th- The Secret Garden Plan to join our summer school and get an extra head start for next year!!  Contact Rosemary for more details.

Our Students Hard At Work!