Planetarium fun

As the year winds down we will have lots of things that we will be doing that will be outside of our regular routine.  Next week, Mrs. Fitch will come and do science with us each day.  We will be learning about force and motion.  Friday we will tie dye our shirts.  We will wear these shirts for both our Columbia Manor field trip and for our end of the year celebration.  We will do our best to get some good solid learning objectives in too!

We had a fantastic time at the planetarium.  We learned about constellations and planets.  When we came back we made constellations of our own.   Next week or field trip will be to Hyvee!

A special congratulations to Mr. Woods as he will be our new principal next year!  We are so proud of him and we know that he will lead Beulah well and continue our BEU vision. 


Here are our learning objectives for this week and last week:
Reading:  Sorting word families & rhyming words, cross checking the picture and the first letter of an unknown word.
Writing:  Sharing our opinions in writing, spelling multi-syllabic words, writing reasons to support our thinking
Math:  writing and solving addition story problems, addition, subtraction
Fundations:  reading and writing words with ck ending
Science:  Animal adaptations, space

Our Week in Pictures

Balancing the balance with playdough

 Happy Birthday Friend!  Thanks for sharing treats! 

Off to the planetarium

High school here we come!

Learning about the stars and the planets

Taking surveys

 Sorting rhyming words and word families

Puzzles during daily 5

 We had a special visit from Mr. Wright

 Happy birthday friend!  Thanks for sharing treats! 

 Representing our survey data

 Making constellations 

Another birthday!  We've enjoyed lots of treats.  Thanks friend!

 New toys?  We love them.  And the box is fun too!

Connecting writing to reading during reading group

Things to Remember:

• May 1 - Wright and Cunningham to Hyvee (No volunteers necessary)
  May 3 - Tie Dye - Please make sure to have your child's shirt sent in
• May 10 - Columbia Manor field trip forms due (Pink & Orange)
• May 16th- Columbia Manor and park trip
• May 17 - Field Day
• May 24th- Kindergarten Celebration & Picnic at 10 am
• May 28 -Last Day of School - Dismiss at 12:50

Chicks!

We had a fun surprise visit from chicks this week!  The kids were so excited to see their little fluffy selves.  We talked about the life cycle of a chicken and watched a real time video of a chick hatching out of an egg.  It was a pretty great experience.  

Thank you so much to all that have sent in money for our penny drive!  Our class has collected over 50$ as of today!  We will really be able to buy some wonderful things for our friends at Columbia Manor.  Keep those pennies coming!  

The end of the year is fast approaching.  I can hardly believe it as I type.  We invite you to our kindergarten celebration.  This will be on the Friday before the last day of school.  With the last day of school being on Tuesday, we understand that many of you may already have trips planned so we wanted to make sure most could be there.  We will have a special program for you and you are invited to bring a picnic lunch and eat with your child following the program.  It is always a really sweet way to end our year together.  Look in the Friday Folder for more information.

We have a couple things coming up.  We will be doing our science project with Mrs. Fitch and we will also be tie dyeing as well.  We will need some volunteers to help with those.  Please use this link to sign up to help.  Thanks to those that have already signed up!  

Click here to sign up

Weekly Objectives:

Reading:  segmenting and blending words, looking at the first letter as a clue to solve an unknown word.

Writing:  Writing our opinion with a beginning, three reasons and a closing.

Math:  3D shapes, adding with dominoes, solving number stories, adding on the calculator

Fundations:  digraphs, reading and writing words with digraphs

Sciecne:  Life cycle, animal adaptations