We Have A Secret!!!!

You see this very happy face.  This very happy face is working very hard on our project for Room 115's Celebration that will be Friday, June 1 immediately following the Kindergarten Program.  If you plan to attend the Room 115 Celebration, please write a short note this week to the class telling them how many people will be coming to the Room 115 Celebration.  The children will love to keep track of the number of people attending our celebration.  Your note will make sure  that we have plenty of food and chairs available for the celebration.  Our celebration in the classroom should be over by 11:00.  If you need to return to work earlier then please let me know and I will make sure your child goes first in our program.  Several parents have asked if they may check their child out after the program to spend a special afternoon with your almost first grader. The answer to that question is yes.

Please enter our classroom cautiously during the next few weeks.  The children are protective over our projects and do not want to ruin the surprises we have for you.

I will begin testing Word Wall Words on Friday.  I hope to finish on Friday but it may run over into next week.

Nancy's is tomorrow for $1.00.

The library is closed for the remainder of the year so please turn in all library books.  I have AR books in the classroom so your child can continue to take tests up until the end of the school year.

The children have their final DIBELS testing on Tuesday.  Our class is scheduled to go at 8:30 so  please be on time so that we can have a normal start of the day.  

There was reading homework this weekend.  Please make sure your child is able to read all reading homework in a manner that he/she talks.  We are really working hard to read like we talk.  If your child is reading in a choppy manner then practice, practice and practice those reading homework sheets.  Reading fluently comes with practice, practice and more practice.  We will have reading homework right up until the end of the school.  School doesn't end in Room 115 until Friday, June 8.

Please start saving empty food containers and sending them into school this week.  We are going to have a little store set up in our classroom for dramatic play purposes.   We already have a cash register and I'm bringing in a grocery cart this week.  If you have canned food, open from the bottom so that it looks like it has never been opened.  Anything you can purchase at a grocery store is perfect just please clean out any containers.

Forty-eight out of the fifty states have adopted the Common Core Standards.  Alabama will be implementing the standards beginning next year.  (States had the option of implementing this year or next.)  If you are curious about the standards click Common Core Standards.  Scroll to the middle of the page and you will see Read English Language Arts Standards or  Read Mathematics Standards.  Click to open and then click on the desired grade level.

 This month is full of birthdays!  Happy, happy birthday to this special six year old.  I am so lucky to work with this outstanding young man.  (We are celebrating the summer birthdays during the next three weeks.  I will have a special slide show for summer birthdays in my final blog post.)

No school on Monday in observance of Memorial Day.

Our poetry journal this week will be about jiggly teeth which we have a lot of in Room 115.  The final poem will come home on June 1.

We are down to our final rolls of paper towels if somebody would like to donate a few rolls.  Thanks for always supporting  Room 115 and loving the members!  Contact me with any questions or concerns.