News for the Week of April 29th

The Monkeys really enjoyed the kindergarten salsa celebration on Friday!  We have had fun growing our jalapenos and cilantro and learned a lot in the process.  We appreciate all of the parents that took time out of their busy schedules to attend the celebration and try our homemade salsa with chips.

In math, we completed a unit on identifying coins (penny, nickel, dime, quarter).  The students only have to be able to identify the coins, but we also discussed their value.  In first grade, the students will work more with adding money.  Now we are finishing up our teen numbers unit this upcoming week.

In language arts, we read the poem, Go Get Some!, which focused on the sight word "get."  We wrote the word "get" several times, looked for rhyming words in our poem and colored the pictures.  We continued our We Are Researchers unit and will finish it this week.  We will share our posters with the class and finish writing our individual research reports.  We will also start a new unit at the end of this week called, "We Can Read and Write."  We will start an author study on Mo Willems.  We will also work on a little something special for our moms for Mother's Day and prepare our things for the Kindergarten Showcase on Friday morning at 7:20 a.m.

In science, we have been learning all about the life cycle of plants (seed, sprout, seedling, plant, flower/fruit).  We are growing our own plants after planting pinto beans in our own cups.  We have been observing them and recording our observations in a booklet.  We will finish our unit on plant life cycles this week and we will begin a new social studies unit called, "Patriotic Customs."

Special Events

Please join us in our classroom from 7:20 a.m.-7:40 a.m. on Friday, May 10th for our Kindergarten showcase.  Your child will show you some of their learning from this school year!  After the showcase, you can go down to the cafeteria for the students' musical performance.  Please make sure you sign in at the office and get a visitor badge beforehand.  Thank you!

Dear Kindergarten families:

The combined Kindergarten classes will be performing for you on Friday, May 10th at 8:00 am.  We will be sharing some songs about our Kindergarten year, and we also have some specials songs in honor of our Moms!

We are looking forward to seeing you on Friday, May 10th at 8:00 am in the CCE Cafeteria.

Reminders

Please return the report card envelope if you have not already.  

Please return book envelopes as soon as possible.  Book envelopes are done for this school year.

Please be sure to check out the "Dates to Remember" below. 
Upcoming Dates to Remember:

5/7             Volunteer Breakfast, 7:15-8:00 a.m. (library)
5/10           Kindergarten Showcase 7:20 a.m.
5/10           Kindergarten Musical Performance, 8 a.m.
5/13-5/15   STAAR Testing in Grades 3-5
5/21           Field Day and Cookout
5/23           Last Day of School
5/23           End of Year Party, 2:00 p.m.

Superstars & Birthdays:

Morris Superstar:

Keyan!

Morris May Birthdays:

Alicia-5/5
Avery-5/5

Morris June Birthdays:
CJ-6/10
Benjamin-6/12
Jackson-6/16
Aubrey-6/28

Morris July Birthdays:
Lucas-7/11
Noah-7/23

Morris August Birthdays (before the 2018-19 school year began):
Lauren-8/1