Metamorphasis

Butterfly pavilion

Chrysalises

We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our butterflies!  Each caterpillar has formed a chrysalis.  We carefully moved them into the butterfly pavilion.  Any day now we should have butterflies!  The boys and girls run to check each morning when they get to school.  I hope we are at school when they hatch so we can watch.  What a wonderful learning experience this metamorphasis has been!  I'm looking forward to our Lanark field trip coming up on Monday.   We will also be learning about weather and the four seasons this week.

Week of April 23-27

Reading/Language Arts: 

-Ending consonant sounds

-Vowels

-Sight words - # words one-five

Handwriting:

-Lowercase letters

-Numbers 

Math:

-Numerical order (what number comes next?)

-Counting sets

Bible:

-The Manna - God gives people food and water in the desert.  Exodus 16:1-17:7

Reminders: 

-Lanark trip (Monday April 23, leave by 8:15)

-Wear jeans and closed- toed shoes.  You will probably need a jacket!

Going Buggy

We visited K5 and learned a new vowel song..."Vowel Bat".

"Reading the room"

We find sight words around the room and write them.

We have gone "buggy" this week.  Our K4 class is learning about insects.  Ask your child to sing our insect song..."Head, Thorax, Abdomen."  We also have caterpillars that we are watching change into butterflies.  When we left on Friday, three of the five had formed their chrysalis.  We can't wait to see the butterflies!  We'll keep you posted.  Our K4 class is also having fun learning the vowels and their sounds.  Please have them sing "vowel bat" for you.  Enjoy the rest of your weekend!   

Week of April 16 - 20


Reading/Language Arts:
-Vowels/Sounds
-Sight word - little


Handwriting:
-Last names
-Numbers
-Lowercase letters


Math:
-Review (patterns, counting, ordering numbers)


Bible:
-"The Red Sea"  Exodus 14

Reminders:

-Lanark field trip Monday April 23 (leave by 8:15)

-Chicken biscuit sales for the March of Dimes - Friday April 20th and 27th ($3 for biscuit and a drink)

Happy Easter!

Our Easter Party was GREAT!  Thank you to Jamie Johnston for hosting it at her home and to all the parents who helped out.  The weather held out for us, and the kids had a blast!  We've celebrated our risen Savior all week.  Many of our activities were related to Easter.  Our Bible lesson this week was  "The best thing about Easter."  We learned that candy, the Easter bunny, Easter egg hunts, etc. are all very fun, but the BEST thing about Easter is JESUS.  I hope that all of you enjoy a happy and blessed Easter Holiday!

Week of April 9-13

Reading:

-Vowel sounds

-Blending words

Handwriting:

-Lowercase letters

-Last names

Math:

-Counting sets up to 30

-What number comes next?

Bible:

-The Plagues (Exodus 5-10)

Reminders:

-Field trip to Lanark Nature Center Monday April 23 (leave school by 8:15) 

Happy Spring Break!

Dr. Cavanaugh at Science Fest

Relay race during Science Fest

I hope that everyone is enjoying spring break.  We have certainly been blessed with beautiful weather!  I've posted a couple of pictures from Science Fest.  These were only  two of the many fun activities.  Thank you to Rose Pendleton who helped out with the K4 activities on that day.  I would also like to thank Dr. Cavanaugh for coming to speak.  The kids loved it,  especially An Wilkes.  Next week we will celebrate with an Easter party.  The party will be on Thursday morning following our Easter chapel service.  We will leave for the party as soon as chapel is over.  If you are able to attend we would love to have you there.  I hope that all of our M,W,F students can join us that day.  They will just meet us at the party.   It will be lots of fun!

Week of April 2-5

Reading/Language Arts:

-Vowels

-Blending words

-Sight word review

Handwriting:

-Lowercase letters  k,x,z

-Last names

-Number writing- 1-20

Math:

-Sorting/Graphing (with jelly beans)

-Measuring

Bible:

-The Easter Story (Jesus is Alive!) Matthew 28

Reminders

- Easter Party Thursday April 5 (at the Johnston's house)

- Good Friday- School holiday 

Rockin in Our School Shoes with Eric Litwin

Please take a look at last week's blog post again.  Oops.... I failed to get the slide show on it.  It's there now.   The big event this week was a visit from Mr. Eric Litwin, author of the Pete the Cat books.  He was sooo much fun!  As we reviewed the letter "Ww" this week, we enjoyed making and eating "Wanda & Willie's waffles.  The kids really loved them.  I sent home the recipe in the binders.  They were yummy!  We celebrated two birthdays this week.  Two of our friends were born on the same day.  We are looking forward to "Science Fest" next week.  Mrs. Henderson has lots of fun things planned for us!

Week of March 19-23

Reading/Language Arts:

- Letter/sound - vowels  A,E,I,O,U 

- sound blending

- "_an" word family

- syllable counting

Handwriting:

- Lower case letters - k,x,z

- Last names

- Numbers 1-20

Math:

- Combining sets

- Teens and Twenty's number families

Bible:

- "The Plagues" (Exodus 5-10)

Reminders:

- Science fest - Friday March 23

- Half day - Friday March 23 ( No backpacks or snack needed)

- Spring break - March 26-30

- Easter party and egg hunt - Thursday April 5 (watch for an email from Mrs. Willcutt with details)

A Whole Lot of Learning Going On!

What a busy week!  You will see that we've been comparing numbers with an alligator mouth.  He always chomps the bigger number.  We've also been comparing hieght.  We measured and graphed whether we were taller, shorter, or the same hieght as a flower that we made.  Our list of sight words is growing.  We are working on that word list as well as the "_ig" word family.  In the pictures you'll see that we practiced writing last names in shaving cream.  There is a lot of learning going on in our K4 classroom!  Next week we will continue to learn about plants.  We'll be waiting to see if the seeds that we planted sprout.  We will also continue to work on writing our last names, sight words, and review letter sounds.  Thanks to those of you who have donated items for our treasure box!  It is getting low again.  If you have items to donate we would greatly appreciate it!

Week of March 12-16:

Reading/Language Arts:

-Letter/Sound review - V,W,Y

-Sight word - You

-Ending sounds

Handwriting:

-Last names

-Numbers 1-20

-Lower case letters - v,w,y

Math:

-Measurement

-Comparing numbers

-Addition/Subtraction

Bible:

-"The Burning Bush"  Exodus 3

Reminders:

-Friday March 16 - Author of Pete the Cat, Eric Litwin,visits Trinity
-Spring Break - March 26-30

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

We enjoyed reading many Dr. Seuss favorites this week in honor of his birthday.  A couple of our favorites are The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham.  We even cooked and tasted green eggs.  We made a class graph of who liked them and who didn't.  Everyone thought they were yummy!  Mrs. Gibbons third graders came to our classroom this week to share what they have learned  about the solar system.  They did a great job, and our class learned a new song about the solar system.  Next week we will learn about plants and flowers.  I'm looking forward to another fun week!

Week of March 5 - 9

Reading/Language Arts:

-Letter review -  K, W, Y, U

-Blending words

-Ending sounds

-High frequency word - and   

Handwriting:

-Lower case letters - n,m,h

-Numbers - 1-20

Math:

-Comparing numbers

-Measurement

Bible:

-"The Basket" (The Princess finds Moses.  Exodus 1:8-2:10)