The celebration of Easter was so exciting for me to watch as our students
slowly learned the story of Jesus’ life! It was amazing to witness their compassion for Jesus during his days of suffering and then realize
that Easter is when Jesus came alive again! Across all areas of our
curriculum we have woven the theme of His resurrection including
kindercooking with “Resurrection Rolls” we made in class and then enjoyed together. I hope they shared the story of the Last Supper with
you at home as we re-created it in class the day before Holy Thursday
with grape juice and pita bread. Thank you so much for all your parent support at the Easter Party!
Dinosaurs!
During May, our students are going to begin investigating dinosaurs! These fascinating
creatures are extinct but we are going to bring them to life with our classroom learning!
We will be learning the difference between the plant eating and meat-eating dinosaurs.
We will practice reading using dinosaur pattern stories. We will be creating a “Dinosaur
World’ as a final project. Each child is asked to bring a few rocks, a few plastic flowers
and a few small plastic dinosaurs by Monday, May 29th! Our dinosaur worlds will be one
of our most exciting projects and the students will be thrilled to erupt the volcanoes
with baking soda and vinegar! The worlds do not last forever and sometimes-even mold!
Please don’t let your child tuck it under their bed and forget it!
Upcoming Events
Safety City Friday, May 19th! All students 10:00a.m. until 2:00p.m. Bike helmets required! Pack lunches!
Father’s Day Birdhouse Evening—Tuesday, June 13th at 6:00p.m.
Telus World of Science—Monday, June 19th from 8:15a.m. until 12:15p.m. No noon hour transportation home due to
time changes!
Teddy Bear Picnics and Science Day Friday, June 23rd!
Tentative Year End Party Wednesday, June 28th! All Students 11:51a.m. until 2:53p.m.
Mother’s Day is quickly approaching! The students have begun working to make
this day very special for their Mothers. Don’t forget that our Mother’s Day Tea will be
held on Friday May 12th!
A.M. Class –8:45 - 9:45a.m.
P.M. Class - 12:30 - 1:30p.m.
Students will attend school during their regular program hours!
Math work has been our opening ac-
We have another
spring project that will
tivity each day and the students have
begin during the week
been counting, making sets, working on nu-
of May 23rd- a caterpillar kit will be arriv-
meral recognition, activities with the re-
ing and we will begin observing life cycle
kenrek or other math
changes that take place from caterpillars
strands including sorting,
patterning, measuring, vol-
to butterflies!
ume and shapes.
Lifecycles will be an
ongoing topic during
the month of June.
Scrap Booking Dates:
I will be having 2 more scrap booking evenings booked. These dates
are May 16th and 29th! Thanks so
much for those parents who have
come out and helped create such
a lovely
memory
for every
child!!
LITERACY STATIONS!
Our students have been enjoying the literacy
stations immensely and are quite disappointed when
we are not able to accommodate them into our daily
plans! It is exciting to watch
them develop the recognition of some sight words!
Please try to have them
spend 5 minutes with you
each day with their Home
Reading books and return them daily in their backpacks! Thanks for supporting your child’s learning!
Frog Spawn!
If you spot any frog eggs please bring them into class because we
would love to watch the changes these creatures undergo!
10 Ways to Learn Letters
…Without Holding a Pencil
1. Use magnetic letters to sequence and match letters. Build words and sentences.
2. Write letters with your finger: in sand, cornmeal or shaving cream (use a cookie
sheet)
3. Glue beans, noodles, cloth, cotton balls, mini marshmallows, rice, or paper to
make mosaics in the shape of letters.
4. Use pushpins to outline letters.
5. Build letters with Playdough, pretzel or bread dough.
6. Use letter stamps to sequence the alphabet or words.
7. Play Alphabet Bingo
8. Use Scrabble tiles to match letters, build words or build sentences.
9. Hide letters in sand, rice and beans or birdseed – have children find them and
identify them by feeling the letters.
10. Try Rainbow writing: children trace over a letter using a sequence of colors to
make a rainbow letter.
10 (More!) Ways to Learn Letters
…Without Holding a Pencil
1. Make an ABC book by cutting out pictures that start with a given letter.
2. Fish for letters using a homemade fishing pole with a magnet hanging on a string.
Letter cards have paperclips placed on them.
3. Find letters in magazines, books, on cereal boxes and other household items.
4. Make glitter letters: children trace letter with glue sticks and sprinkle glitter on
top.
5. Have children match upper and lower case letters.
6. Make letters with Wikki sticks or pipe cleaners
7. Put plastic letters in a feel bag or box and let children guess what letter they are
feeling.
8. Finger paint letters.
9. Check out good websites such as www.mrsalphabet.com
10. Use the Handwriting without Tears resources to develop letter concepts, fine
motor skills, spatial concepts and confidence! (see www.hwtears.com)