Welcome back after the May holiday!

I hope you all enjoyed your

time whether at home or away! Even as the school year is waning
down, we just keep on learning new things. Here is what we
learned this week.
We learned two new blends cl and cr. We learned a lot of new
vocabulary using these blends and the kids drew some excellent
illustrations for our vocabulary cards.
Math was focused around time for the majority of the week. We
learned that the clock repeats every 12 hours and that the first
time it repeats is called am and the second time it repeats is
called pm. The kids chose certain times of day, both in the
am and pm, that were important to them to draw and write
about. We then made our own analog clocks and are learning to
tell time to the hour. We are practicing reading both analog
and digital clocks.
We read two folk tales this week. The first was a Chinese folk
tale called Tikki Tikki Tembo the kids loved Tikkis long name
and you might catch your child saying it (it is pretty catchy). So
if you hear about Tikki Tikki Tembo No Sa Rembo Chari Bari
Ruchi Pip Peri Pembo, ask about what happened to him and
his brother and how they showed compassion. The second folk
tale we read was from India called One Grain of Rice. Ask your
child how Rami (the girl) was clever in teaching the king a les-
son.
As we learned about am and pm, the kids also learned why
we have day and night. Using a flashlight and a globe the kids
were able to see that one side of the Earth is lit up while the
other side is dark, and since the Earth rotates, each side experi-
ences day and night in a 24 hour period. We then made a
bulletin board to display this understanding showing Earths
day and night in relation to the sun.
We planted sunflower seeds this week. The kids have been
making a book and tracking their growth each day this week.
When the seedlings are big enough we will transplant them into
the pots we have ready.
We modeled the basic phases of the moon this week using Oreo
cookies. We modeled a full moon, a half moon, a crescent moon,
and a new moon.
Pre-K/Kindergarten News
May 9, 2014
Getting back into the swing of things...
Help at home!
Ask your child to tell you
the sound of the conso-
nant blends we learned
this week: cl, and cr.
Review the blends weve
been learning: bl, br, dr
and be on the lookout for
words that contain these
blends!
Look at baby and child-
hood pictures with your
child to see how they
have changed over the
years.

Practice reading and
spelling sight words: this
week our sight words
were well, into, and
now.

Read on Raz-kids and
practice math on ixl.com!
If you havent already,
please return your
childs portfolio along
with your parent reflec-
tion from your childs
student-led conference.
Thank you to the par-
ents who have already
done so.
Also, if you havent al-
ready done so, please
remember to send pic-
tures of your kids at
(what they consider)
important times in
their lives.
Reminder
The kids drew pic-
tures of the major
events, summa-
rizing the story
Tikki Tikki
Tembo.
On Monday we
planted our sun-
flower seeds in
plastic cups so that
we could see and
monitor their
growth more easily.
The kids drew pic-
tures of their seeds
every day this week
to see how they
grew!
Our Oreo cookie model of the main phases of the moon.
A demo
of day
and
night
using a
globe
and a
flash-
light.