Friday, May 10, 2019


Hi JK parents!

Happy Mother's Day to the most wonderful group of mothers!  You are all doing an amazing job with these fabulous, kind, intelligent, hilarious little beings!  Lila and I will be spending Mother's Day with good friends and their children, celebrating getting through another year of parenting!  :)

We are learning more about insects and have loved discovering the similarities and differences between multiple insects.



Dr. Glader read The Fantastic, Elastic Brain.  She taught us how to use our brains to do things even better as we get bigger!  She explained that the children in JK all have 5 more magic years of the first 10 years of life-the most amazing growth period where you will actually have long term memory.  When you make mistakes your brain is stretching the most.  You can stretch the part of your brain that controls your feelings too!



Literacy:
We played games finding the beginning and ending sounds of words.  In reading groups we hunted for letters, letter sounds, popcorn words, and used "flippy dolphin" when decoding words to use the other sound when the first vowel sound doesn't make sense.   We continued putting letters in "word jail" when the letter made a different sound than what we had learned.  We have been practicing our rhyming words and compound words too, clapping out syllables.







Math & Science:
We continue to learn about the behaviors of bees, and how they communicate with each other.  We practiced our 3D shapes, and practiced saying "sphere".  We also practiced counting to 100 and by 10's and 5's.  We are using story problems to add and subtract.  The children love stories about themselves to hold their attention!  

We potted flowers and made handprints on them for Mother's Day!  The children also made cards for their moms and colored pictures on their questionnaire's.  

We had a visitor Bee Keeper, Mr. Bailey's cousin.  (Ahem, it might have been Mr. Bailey dressed up in a bee keepers suit, but we will never know!)  I picked up a honey comb and all of the tools necessary to keep bees from a Bee Keeper last night, and brought them to class to share.  The place I picked everything up has a backyard farm with chickens, goats, ducks, and of course bees!  The children were able to try on the suit and see the smoker, a honeycomb and the brush and trays.  

 The goats were head butting me, but were as friendly and sweet as can be!  








Snack time outside!!
Fine Motor:
We finished our self portraits for May, our last one of the year.  We made honey combs by cutting out hexagons and glueing them carefully together.  The children all added their own bees to their honey combs and then wrote buzzzzz or other bee related words.  

Social Emotional:
We made our compliment circle and took turns giving our classmates compliments.  We have been role playing each day with different scenarios to help with finding the right way to communicate with friends and schoolmates.  

Have a lovely weekend!

Ms. Massey