Weekly News & Homework: May 6th-10th


Weekly News: May 6-10 


IT'S TIME! Community Service Projects are due and will be presented THIS WEEK! Please send projects in any day THIS WEEK, May 6 - May 10. However, if you would like your child to be considered for our school leadership banquet, projects must be turned in by Wednesday. A kindergarten student from each class will be selected to present to our administration and school board. From there, students may have the opportunity to be invited to our ILCS Leadership Banquet. Please have your child practice the presentation. Remember that your community service project is a required part of our curriculum at Inland Leaders.  I am looking forward to seeing all of the projects. Thank you!

We are excited for our very special Mother's Day centers on Friday. We will begin RIGHT AT 11:00 so please plan on arriving by then. The students have some special songs prepared and we have a special story we will be reading together as a class. There will be activities, games, and even a snack! I hope you are able to make it! Please remember to arrange childcare for your little ones so that this can be a very special time between you and your kindergartner :)

Save the Date: We will have a last day of school KINDERGARTEN CLASSROOM CELEBRATION on Wednesday, June 5th at 11:15.  You will not want to miss this! Please mark your calendar and plan on joining us at the end of the day.

Our very last Scholastic Book Orders will be due soon! Order some books for your child to read over the summer! These order will be due by Friday, May 17th. 


Upcoming Events:
Friday, May 10: Mother's Day Celebration 
Monday, May 27: NO SCHOOL 
Tuesday, June 4: BSC Field Day - more info coming soon! 
Wednesday, June 5: Last Day of Kindergarten Celebration 


What Are We Learning This Week?:

Sight Words: HIS, HER, HAD, GET, THESE.

Letter Team:  Keep reviewing all of your letter teams and sight words learned in kindergarten! End of the year assessments will be taking place in a few weeks!

Reading: We will continue to read books about caterpillars and butterflies as we study their life cycle. We will also begin reading books about plants and read books about Mother's Day. 

Writing: We will continue to work hard on our writing goals in our journals.

Math: We are working hard on decomposing, composing, addition, and subtraction through many fun math games! Please continue to reinforce these skills at home. 

Leadership: We will continue to ROAR and discuss what it means to have a growth mindset!

Homework: May 6-10 

Flashcards: Don't forget to make new flashcards for each sight word and letter team. New words for this week are: HIS, HER, HAD, GET, THESE. There are NO new letter teams for the rest of the year - so study ALL old letter team flashcards! 


Phonemic Awareness: Please work with your child on: rhyming, blending, segmenting, syllables, and beginning/middle/ending sounds. 


Reading:  Play Smarty Ants for 10-15 minutes each night. Read your Book Bag every night. This includes: fluency passages, paper books, sight word and letter team pages, and library books. 


Writing: Practice writing EVERY day.  You can practice writing a 5 sentence Step up to Writing paragraph in your at-home journal.


Math: Play Dreambox for 10-15 minutes each night. Continue to discuss ways to make 5 (and ways to make 10!), numbers in base ten (in the number 16, how many tens and how many ones?), addition and subtraction number problems and word problems, 2D and 3D shapes, and the Doubles Song. Count the money in your bank. 


QR Codes: Download and print the QR Code practice pages on ParentSquare. Work on these pages together.


Your community service projects are due THIS WEEK! Please make sure projects are turned in NO LATER THAN FRIDAY MAY 10th. PLEASE DO NOT WAIT AND TURN IN PROJECTS ON FRIDAY.  EACH STUDENT WILL BE SHARING WITH THE CLASS.  IF THEY ALL COME IN ON FRIDAY IT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO SHARE THEM ALL! THANK YOU!!!!!  THANK YOU TO THOSE STUDENTS WHO HAVE ALREADY TURNED YOUR PROJECTS IN!

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