Mrs. Morris' Class: News for the Week of May 13th

Thank you SO much to all of you for the wonderful gift card from the class to Moviehouse & Eatery! I love it! Also, thank you very much for all of the book fair book donations, sweet cards, delicious treats and gift cards during teacher appreciation week! I am so lucky to be able to teach such amazing children and work with such wonderful and supportive families! Teaching can be hard, but it is so rewarding and fun! I will truly miss each of my little Monkeys, but I know they will do great things and continue to learn and grow in first grade!

We hope you enjoyed the kindergarten showcase and the kindergarten musical performance on May 10th!

The week before last we had a power outage at school and it last for approximately 3 hours. We had to get creative! We told campfire stories with flashlights, read books, took a walk around the school and had our last library time. Here we are in the dark, in the library!

This past week we finished up with some math activities to spiral our learning from throughout this year. We took an assessment on teen numbers and we made some really cute teen number people. The students got various teen numbers and then had to show the number in 4 different ways. These are so cute and are hanging up in our classroom.

During language arts, we read the poem My Little Hamster and focused on the sight word "her." We read the poem together several times, word the sight word "her" in the blanks, highlighted the rhyming words and colored the illustration. We have completed an author study on Mo Willems and read the books Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, The Pigeon Wants a Puppy, Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late, The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog, The Pigeon Needs a Bath and Knuffle Bunny. We completed a variety of different reading response activities after reading these books. I am sure you have seen some of them come home in your child's folder. We also began an author study on Oliver Jeffers. We read his books, Lost and Found, Up and Down, The Day the Crayons Quit (he was the illustrator) and we will read Stuck next week.

In social studies, we finished up our unit on Patriotism. We watched the video "Old Glory" about our American flag and finished making our "tear art" American flags, we read a book called America Is... which taught us about our country and some American symbols. We then learned about the Texas flag and watercolored some Texas flags and then added the lone star to the flags.

Next week, we will work on memory books, a summer goals activity and some other fun things to finish up our kindergarten year! Wow! It went by SO fast!!

Reminders

Field Day is on Tuesday, May 21st. Please send your child to school in a bathing suit with a shirt to cover it up, water shoes (they can't be barefoot when running around on the wet, slippery pavement) and apply sunscreen before coming to school. Make sure to pack a towel for your child to dry off and a set of dry clothes (including underwear/panties, socks and dry shoes) in their backpack. We will have field day activities from 9:40 to 10:40 a.m. Then all of the girls will go in the classroom to change out of their wet clothes. When they are done, they will wait in the hallway while all of the boys change out of their wet clothes. Then we will go to our "cookout" lunch!

Our class party will be on Thursday, May 23rd at 2:00 p.m. Room parents & volunteers will set up for the party at 1:30 p.m. Please sign in at the office with a driver's license or valid ID first and get a badge.

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

5/21 Field Day and Cookout
5/23 Last Day of School
5/23 End of Year Party, 2:00 p.m.
5/23 Report cards go home (if you have cafeteria charges or all library books
are not turned in, the report card will be left in the front office until charges
are taken care of with the cafeteria and/or library)

Superstars & Birthdays:

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

Happy Birthday Alicia & Avery!