New Stations in the Learning Commons

On Tuesday we got to explore the new stations in the Learning Commons. We worked together to make some fun things!

Trying to get the ball into the correct spot.

Creating with Legos.

Building with sticks and clips

writing our first name in code

Origami cats and dogs  

Field Day!

Field Day- Volunteers Needed!

Field Day at Francis Wyman will take place on Friday, June 9th. The rain date is scheduled for Friday, June 16th. The P.E. staff is looking for parent volunteers for either one or both of the sessions to help supervise the activities and work the water stations. Check in for the first session (K,1,2) is 8:00AM and check in for the second session (Grades 3-5) is at 10:45AM. Anyone volunteering for Field Day must have a current CORI report on file. Please email Neil Rebelo at rebelo@bpsk12.org or Carol Nicholas at nicholas@bpsk12.org with any questions. 

Magnet Show with Mr. Musselman

On Wednesday Mr. Musselman from the Science Center came in and talked to us about magnets!

Discussing the poles of a magnet.

Fishing for things that are attracted to magnets. 

Learning about an electromagnet- and trying to pull it apart!

Thanks Mr. Musselman! We really enjoyed learning about magnets!

May 12, 2017

This week we learned about the three main parts of an insect. Ask your student if a spider is an insect and why not! We wrote in our journals about insects we have seen at our houses, we drew and labeled the life cycle of a butterfly and we drew an insect and labeled it’s parts. Students seem to really be enjoying this unit.

At the book table students started an individual innovation of their own version The Very Busy Spider. They are thinking of their own animals to talk to the spider and what they might want to do with the spider. Their fluency is coming along nicely with this book and I love hearing their different ideas.

We have been working very hard on sight words. Keep practicing at home too!

I will be testing students on sight words and their math addition and subtraction facts soon! Please keep practicing at home- they need to be able to do the math facts in under 3 seconds without their fingers.

Students have been busy writing their personal narratives. It has been nice to hear their  different stories about their lives. I am sure you will be impressed when they take their folders home at the end of the year.

We had help today from our 4th grade buddies. They helped us with some special writing I am sure you will see Sunday if you haven’t seen already!

Today we had some very special guests in our classroom! Joey’s Grammy and Auntie Stephanie came in to visit the class and read us two stories! Thanks for coming in!

Highlights from the 5th grade concert!

Magnet Show

Today Mr. Musselman from the Burlington Science Center came and talked to us about magnets!

April 28, 2017

Hard to believe the April has come and gone and we are starting May!

We have started our unit on nature this week. We learned about the different parts of a tree this week and will learn about seeds next week. Students painted trees on Monday and labeled the different parts. We also created our May calendar pieces which will focus on different times of the day. We will create Eric Carle inspired flowers next week. We will also learn about life cycles and insects. It is a busy unit but a fun one!

We focused on tapping out words this with the short o sound in the middle. I hope your students read the words to you when they brought their papers home on Monday or Tuesday. That is a great way to practice tapping and reading words.

We have started Writer’s Workshop. Before vacation we brainstormed as a class different ideas we can write about for our personal narratives. Students came up with great ideas such as trips, their families, their birthdays, and their pets. I am excited to see the work that they will come up with.

We finished our math unit on the numbers up to 100. We will continue to work with the numbers up to 100 throughout the rest of the school year.

We started our math unit on shapes.  We will be learning about 2D and 3D shapes. Yesterday we talked about how 2D shapes are flat and 3D shapes are solid.  We went on a shape hunt around the classroom for circles and triangles, and discovered it was easier to find circles in our room then triangles.

Today we read a book called The Greedy Triangle that students really seemed to enjoy. It talks about how the triangle wants to be different shapes, but then end up wanting to be a triangle.

We also made some shapes out of ours friends. We had fun seeing what shapes we could make.

rectangle

square

circle

triangle

We are really working on being independent in class. Following along with the life skills lessons that we worked on with Mrs. Christiansen we are working saying yes when a teacher or friend says their names, following instructions right away without having to repeat the instruction (for example: standing for the pledge, getting snack in the hallway without a teacher watching them, etc), or saying excuse me when they need something from a teacher or a friend. We are working on following directions right away. Students have been working hard.

Keep up the good work with this at home too! Have students put on their jackets by themselves, try and tie their shoes by themselves, etc.

Please continue to practice sight words and math fluency facts at home. In May there is a lot of assessments. I will be checking students on sight words and their fluency facts during this time. The list of the 50 Kindergarten sight words students should know is attached at the top of my blog. Flashcards are a great way to practice. The addition and subtraction fluency facts went home at the end of January. Students should be able to solve these within 3 seconds and without using their fingers. 

A few reminders:

-I will be placing a Scholastic order on Sunday if anyone else would like to order.

-We will go to the library Monday to look at the Spring Book Fair. Feel free to send in money with your child if they found something from the flyer that went home a few weeks ago that they liked. Please be sure to place the money in their folder in a baggie or envelope, labeled with their name. That will be extremely helpful to us to make sure we can keep students’ money straight.

39 more days… Have students mention this to me Monday for a prize!