Announcements

Good Afternoon and Happy Spring!!!

In religion, we will be focusing our attention on Mary throughout the month of May.  The children will color a poster to display in your homes, we will be praying the "Hail Prayer" throughout the month and they will be bringing home a packet of flower seeds for you and your child to plant in your yard in honor of Mary.

We have started our unit 9 story, Peter and the Wolf.  This is a story that is set to music and it tells the tale of how Peter and his animal friends outsmart a wolf.  The children will be using pencils in this unit to make markings on their activity pages.  They will also be working with triangles, the color white and the concept "more than".  The children will learn about the letters Uu, Vv and Ww.  They will practice identifying same and different beginning sounds in words.  We will talk about and make predictions about the different characters from the story.

Near the middle of the month we will begin our last story unit in the Happily Every After early reading program.  It is a nonsense poem about each letter of the alphabet, called ABC Poem.  The children will learn the letters Xx, Yy and Zz.  They will continue to use a pencil to make markings on their activity pages and they will learn to identify beginning and ending sounds in words.  They will also recognize rhyming patterns as they look for "silly" words throughout the poem.  

In math we will be playing different addition and subtraction games.  The children will continue to sing and exercise to different counting songs at the start of each day.  We have been counting forward and backward to 50 and to 100 in some of our songs.  

We will be learning about oceans and the different animals that live there and we will also be learning about plants this month.  We have many fun activities and stories to go along with these springtime and summertime themes.

Finally, near the end of the month, we will begin learning some songs for our End of the Year Celebration that will be held in the school gymnasium on Friday, June 18 at 10:00 am.  As a reminder, 2 adults per child will be able to attend and an RSVP letter will be sent home in a couple of weeks.  We are really excited for you to share in this special celebration on your child's last day of school!  

HAVE A GREAT MONTH!!!