Week of April 22nd

         Welcome to another wonderful week of kindergarten!  The kindergarten celebration is on Friday, May 17^th and will start around 9:00.  You may bring as many family members as you would like to the ceremony.  It will take place on the field so there will be plenty of room.  The students may dress up for this occasion, but please no heels for the girls!  After the performance there will be cupcakes and juice on the basketball court.
       Penny Wars are happening this week and it is boys versus girls!!  Ever since I have taught at La Paloma Academy the girls have won the free dress down day.  Could this be the year the boys win?  Pennies count toward your team and if you bring in silver or dollars you can put them in the opposing team and they will count against them!  Earlier this year we filled up the jars 4 times, can we do it again?    

       We had such a good time on our field trips last week and already sent our thank you letters out to OPG and Outback Steakhouse!  Some of the comments I overheard while we were eating were,” Wow, it’s like we’re the adults!,” and ,” Excuse me sir, may I have some more punch?”  For our last field trip we will be going to Lucky Strike Bowl on Monday, May 20^th.  The cost is $6 and parents may meet us there as long as your fingerprints are up in the office and you let me know you will be joining us.

      Homework will go home today and is due this Friday.  Part of the homework is having your student write down their phone number and address. This week we will be learning the letter Q and the sound that it makes. We are now counting by 1’s, 5’s and 10’s to 100 and writing our numbers to 100 as well.  We have been doing lots of writing lately and working on sounding out words.  We are also practicing subtraction and deciding when we should use it when we practice our word problems. Some new sight words to start reviewing at home are come, that and said.

       I'm looking forward to another wonderful week!