Kindergator Update 4.20.19
We had a
chance to meet our future kindergarteners today at our kindergarten camp. I
cannot believe it has been a year since you guys and your little ones walked
through on your first visit to Addison. They have grown so much!
Reading: We
worked on researching about spiders this week. We compared and contrasted
fiction versus non-fiction books, then did the same for two non-fiction texts
about spiders. We played games where each child had either a main idea paper or
details paper and they had to work to find all the papers that fit together
around the same main idea. These kids LOVE non-fiction by the way and some have learned to love spiders too!
We also
painted pattern papers to use for our Eric Carle author study unit. Mrs. Walkup would like you to know that your
children did the best pattern painting of any class we ever had!
Science: We
compared and contrasted animals. We reviewed animal grouping and the different
attributes we can look at when discussing animals.
Writing: We
published our frog fake fiction pieces and began working on our frog
non-fiction pieces. We have only an
opinion piece left about whether or not they would kiss a frog.
Social
studies: We discussed what it means to be a good citizen by showing positive
character traits. They had lots of great traits to talk about and listed them
confidently during our lesson.
BIG THINGS:
We still
have spots available for our Parent Pedagogy Week. We would love to have all of
our families volunteer and fill up our week with fun. Please see the current
schedule below.
We have some
big events coming you might want to plan for…
The Gator
Gala, our celebration of leadership and learning is May 9th. Our
kindergarteners usually start the show with the Pledge of Allegiance and Star
Spangled Banner. Then families can complete different activities around the
school as they learn about the wonderful things we did this year to promote
leadership.
Field Day is
currently scheduled for May 13th. That is a whole day outside full
of fun, games and water sports. More information will come out about this soon,
but it is definitely a day the kids won’t want to miss so please do not
schedule any appointments for them that day.
May 22nd
is our awards day. This is the last day of school and it is where students
receive any academic awards they have earned. We hope to see everyone there to
celebrate and say good bye for the summer.
Thank you
to:
Reese for my
new favorite joke, “What did the janitor say when he jumped out of the
closet?...........Supplies!”
Thank you to
her parents for volunteering for Parent Pedagogy week too!
Mrs. Moran
also for volunteering to come in and teach a lesson relating to our brains.
Elle for
teaching her parents our new dance move “the swim.” And thank you to her
parents for volunteering to come in and teach too!
PTA for
providing us with a big storage box full of toys for the recess grounds. The
box is permanent and all the students now have new, fun toys to play with that
won’t get lost.
Everyone who
sent in Sharpen the Saw pictures; Landon, Jackson, Reese, Zeb, Harper H and
Elle.
Olivia,
Landon, Jaleigh, Reese, and Arnold who wrote great stories this week with very creative
resolutions!
Harper H.
who led kindergarten in the Pledge of Allegiance for kindergarten camp this
week!
Sarah Kate
for deciding she almost likes spiders now.
Jackson,
Ava, Arnold, Zeb and Grant for creating the most interesting marble tracks with
our new game.
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Monday May 13
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Tuesday May 14
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Wednesday May 15
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Thursday May 16
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Friday May 17
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9:00-
9:45
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Field
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Mrs. Beeman
travel
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Mr. and Mrs. Rodgers
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9:45-10:30
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Day
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Mrs. Hassen Salt Painting
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Chess
9:40-10:30
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10:30-11:15
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11:15-12:00
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12:40-1:25
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Day
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12:50-1:30 coding mice
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12:50-1:30 coding mice
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Mr. Kerns
light
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1:25-
2:10
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Mrs. Kerns Musical theater
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