May 2012
Dear Parents,
The next two months will be very busy as we enter the final phase of the school year. It’s hard to believe it’s almost over! We are now in the “home stretch.”
Curriculum:
This month in science, we will continue to discuss living and nonliving things and introduce fossils. The Discovery Museum will be coming on May 16th for a “hands-on” lesson focused on fossils.
In Math, we will be working in more depth with pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters; starting
to count by 2s; and dividing groups in half. We will be reviewing 3-dimensional shapes: cube, sphere, cylinder and cone.
In our Fundations program, we’ll be reading and illustrating sentences; spelling familiar sight and high-frequency words; working more on phrasing and improving our fluency when reading. We will introduce these new sight words: but, get, eight, nine, run, ran, ten eleven, eat, ate, into, twelve, pretty, please, new, say, saw, so, soon.
In Readers’ Workshop, we will continue to use sensory images as a strategy to better
understand what we read. We will introduce nonfiction and learn ways fiction and nonfiction are
different.
In Writers’ Workshop, we will continue our study of revising and editing and will then work on a “How-To” and “All About” books.
May Assessments:
This month we will be conducting our final Aimsweb assessments: Letter Naming Fluency, Phoneme Segmentation Fluency and Nonsense Word Fluency.
Early Release Day:
We will be having an early release day on Wednesday,May 2, so that teachers may
participate in a Professional Development Day. Please remember that dismissal will be at 12:30 P.M. No lunch will be served.
May 25 Assembly:
Our Kindergarten students will be presenting a short assembly for the student body on Friday, May 25 at 10:30 A.M. and 2:30 P.M.Kindergarten families are invited to attend. Our theme will be “Heidi Songs”!
Kindergarten Orientation:
We have planned to invite next year’s incoming class of Kindergarteners to visit school on Thursday, May 17thand Friday, May 18th. Our current class of students will have school as usual on those days and will serve as “buddies” for the “little kids!” Since the children have all grown up so much this year, they’ve earned the honor of being the “big kids” now!
Curriculum Showcase:
Naquag’s annual Curriculum Showcase Night will be held on Wednesday,
May 30 from 6:00 – 7:00p.m. Please plan to bring your family to view some of the work your child has done this year in Kindergarten.
May’s Fabulous Friday:
This month’s “Fabulous Friday”, May 27th is Backwards or Inside/Out Day! Students may wear their clothing inside out or backwards!!
Memorial Day:
Memorial Day will be observed on Monday, May 28. There will be no classes on that day.
PTO Book Fair:
The PTO will be having a Scholastic Book Fair the week of May 29 to June 1. More information will be forthcoming.
Kindergarten Field Trip:
The Kindergarten classes will be taking a field trip to Davis Farmland on Thursday, May 31. The morning, afternoon and full day Kindergarten classes will be attending together. We will
plan to board the buses and leave Naquag by 10 a.m. and return by 1:30 p.m. Permission slips and more information will be sent home Monday, May 21 and should be returned by Friday,
May 25.
Coming Up in June:
*Literacy Parade – June 11th 10 a.m.
*Spring Concert – June 7th 10 &1:30
* Flag Day – June 14th 10 a.m.
* Visiting First Grade
*Summer Birthday Recognitions
* Last Day – June 15th dismissal 12:30 p.m.
Thank you all for your continued generosity in supplying us this year with needed items from our scrounge list.
Thank you again
Paula Hedlund
Joan Rice