Room K Reminders
Be Safe
Be Respectful
Be Responsible

*Please have your child wear safe tennis shoes (rubber soles) and socks every day!

*Please pack your child's snack separately everyday. 
This makes it easier for your child to get their snack quickly.

*Please send in lunch money in a labeled Ziploc bag if your child is buying lunch in the cafeteria.
You can also put money in your child's account online.

*Please have your child bring their Book Buddy and folder everyday!

*All requested paperwork must be returned ASAP!

Thank you,
Mrs. Amy Weisberg

This year has been filled with growth, fun and learning.  We have made life-long friends and become a close classroom family.  This is a bittersweet time together, but we are going to have a week filled with activities and a perfect send-off on Friday with our brunch, talent show and coronation..

Reminders: 
Early dismissal at 1:35 Monday-Thursday
Friday is a minimum day with at 12:40 dismissal

All materials will be sent home this week.  Report cards will be sent home on Friday.

*Help is still needed for end of the year packing up and especially for one set of photo copying. Please let me know ASAP if you can help out!

Our Schedule:
Monday:  Track and Field Day!  Buses will leave at 9:00 and return by 1:00
Tuesday: Teachers & Staff/5th Grade Kickball game, 3rd grade Play, Speech & Language celebration
Wednesday:  Journal writing and Room K clean up
Thursday:  watch 5th Grade Culmination practice, pack Room K, Big Buddy Play & celebration together
Friday:  Pack Room K and Shed, Brunch, Talent Show, and Coronation

Thank you all for a wonderful year together.  It has been my honor to get to know all of you and to teach your children.

Speech & Language:  This week we will be practicing and reviewing the sound on initial /L/.  We will be making lambs and our snack of lemon bars will be contributed by Maxine!

This week we will be having a lot of fun learning about dinosaurs!  The children have been so interested in dinosaurs so we decided to make some art projects, study them and work in partner-pairs to become dinosaur experts!  We will be writing stories in our journals, playing math games and reading games and enjoying our last "normal" week together in Room K.  Next week is filled with special activities.

Remember, the homework for this week is to practice your talent for the last day of school, read a lot and enjoy your friends!  I hope you have enjoyed looking at all of the great work your children have done this year in Room K.  We are very proud of all they have accomplished!

Here is our schedule for the week:
Tuesday: Speech & Language
Wednesday:  Let's Find Out!  Yoga, Council, P.E.
Thursday:  Gardening (with Sarah), Art Trek, Book Tasting in the Library
Friday:  Morning Assembly, Science, P.E.

Speech & Language:  This week we will be practicing the initial blend /st/.  We will be stringing stars and our snack of strawberries will be contributed by Henry!

Sharing:  This week the Tiggers will share!

Speech & Language:  This week we will be re-visiting the sound of initial /s/.  We will make sock puppets!
Sharing:  This week the Piglets will share.

Thank you all for the amazing Teacher Appreciation week!  It was the best week I've experienced in 39 years of teaching and Ms. Samm, Ms Youmna and I felt so loved and appreciated.  The assembly on Friday was so special for all of the teachers and staff.  I really want you to know how much the handmade cards, flowers, and fruit meant, not to mention the delicious treats, breakfast and lunch.  I will have to go back on my diet and exercise regime after all of that delicious appreciation!

We are busy preparing for Open House, Thursday from 5:30-7:00.  This is a special evening for the whole family to come to see the wonderful work your children have been doing all year.  Our room has transformed into an ocean, our caterpillars are in their chrysalsis' slowing transforming into butterflies, when you visit you will be able to read the amazing fairy tale books your children have created and you can observe the sea life animal research projects we have been working on with research partners, parent helpers, big buddies and teachers.  This has been a transformative year for our Room K students and we are so proud of all they have learned.

The children have been practicing good manners and are excited to be earning their crowns!  It is wonderful to see them practice the 3 B's, using kind, polite words, maintain focus while working and playing safely and inclusively on the playground.  I hope you are seeing them practice at home too!

This week we will be starting Benchmark Unit 9, week 4.  We are continuing to learn about healthy food and when food comes from in addition to reinforcing math skills, and reading goals.  We are working in our Rhyming Books and enjoying reading games, sight words and Lexia.  I will be assessing the children this week using Educational Software for Guided Instruction and next week the Kindergarten students will be having their final asssessment using DIBELS (Diagnostic Indicator of Basic Early Literacy Skills).

We are continuing our Math Journals and the children are enjoying writing their numbers, practicing addition and subtraction.

Our Schedule:
Monday:  Big Buddies
Tuesday:  Speech & Language
Wednesday:  Let's Find Out! magazine, Yoga, Council, P.E.
Thursday:  Library, Open House!
Friday:  Morning Assembly, School Tour (Open House displays), Story Pirates, Science, P.E.

I hope you all enjoyed a lovely Mother's Day!
Best wishes,
Mrs. W.

Speech & Language:  This week we will practice the sound of initial /R/. We will make a rainbow and our snack of raspberries will be contributed by Asa!  We will have our lesson after lunch this week due to Ms. Youmna's schedule.

Sharing:  This week the Winnie-the-Poohs will share about an upcoming family trip or a trip they have recently taken.  Remember, this is our last sharing time this year.

Thank you to Dina for coming in Friday to help the Room K students create an art project for the Silent Auction!  A huge thank you to Sarah for coordinating the Silent Auction items and to Stacey for helping Sarah with this huge job.  It was great to see so many involved parents at the Auction supporting our wonderful school.

Thank you to our wonderful volunteers who helped keep the children safe during our Aquarium field trip.  Pictures our posted on our Shutterfly site.  The children had a great time learning about sea stars and observing other Santa Monica Bay animals.  We learned about keeping our beaches clean as part of our We Give Back TK/kindergarten project.

Have you seen our growing sea life mural and our classroom transforming into an "ocean?"  This week we will make our sea stars and sea horses to add to our mural.  We made fish this past week with our Big Buddies, labeling the different parts of the fish.

Friday we had a special demonstration conducted by the Fire Department.  The children got to see how the firefighters would protect our school during a fire and two firetrucks, complete with ladders, drove up to the upper yard to demonstrate.  The firefighters wore their protective gear and the children had the chance to help hold a hose as they squirted water.  The water-dropping helicopter flew overhead and dropped water on the trees on our nature trail. Thanks to Eva's mom, Juliana, for taking great photos of the children and posting them on our Shutterfly site..

Manners!
Along with our Second Step lessons, this week we are officially beginning our Kings & Queens of Manners lessons.  Each child will be able to earn a crown bedazzled with jewels of different colors.  This week we will choose our crowns and the children will begin to earn their jewels.  Our official coronation ceremony will be the last day of school during our potluck end-of-the-year party and talent show (more information to come).  Help your child practice at home and we will recognize the good manners we see at school.

Jewels:
Red-Friendship and Kindness
Gold-Following the Three B's (Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be Responsible)
Pink-Listening and Working Quietly
Green-Playing Nicely on the Playground
Purple-Lunch Table Manners (including eating your lunch)
Silver-Using Polite Words (Please, Thank you, You're Welcome, Excuse Me
Blue-Following Carpet Time Manners

You have all received the spelling words to practice for our annual Spellcheck fundraiser.  Please help your child to practice for this spelling test, writing the words.  The test will be first thing Friday morning and will be corrected by parent volunteers.  The words are sight words for both TK and K based on our Benchmark reading series.  We have been working on these words during language arts in our workbooks, writing and using Lexia.

We will be completing our Fairy Tale books this week and the children have been doing an amazing job illustrating their books.  Many children are reading their own books!  We are also hard at work on our sea life research projects.  It has been helpful to have extra adult help so the children get one-to-one help as they learn about their chosen sea life animal. 

We are observing our caterpillars as they grow and are awaiting the formation of their chrysalis'.  We have been learning about butterflies and moths during science.  This week in science we will conduct engineering experiments.


Our Schedule:
Monday:  Big Buddies
Tuesday:  Speech & Language
Wednesday:  Let's Find Out! magazine, Yoga, Council, P.E.
Thursday:  Art Trek, Library
Friday:  Spellcheck, Homework Review, Sharing, Science, P.E.

Happy Mother's Day!
Mrs. W.

Speech & Language:  This week we will practice the sound of initial /l/.  This is a challenging sound for many children.  We will make ladybugs and our snack of limeaide will be provided by Graham!

Sharing-The Eeyores will share this week (we have a new sharing topic: Going Places!  Please read the description on this site under the "More" tab.) This is our last share of the year!

This week we will continue illustrating our fairy tales and working on our sea life research project and learning about sea life in preparation for our upcoming field trip.  We will also work in our Benchmark workbook and play curriculum supporting reading games.  We will continue working in Lexia and Starfall.  We are completing our April Math Journals and beginning our May Math Journals. 

Our Schedule This Week:
Monday:  Big Buddies
Tuesday:  Speech & Language, Library (we switched days/times just for this week), Music (with Mrs. W)
Wednesday:  Let's Find Out! magazine, Yoga, Council, P.E.
Thursday:  Field Trip!
Friday:  Morning Assembly, Homework Review, Sharing, Science, P.E.

Thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers in Room K!  The children, Ms. Samm and I appreciate all of you so much!
Mrs. W.

-Speech & Language:  This week we will be practicing multi-syllabic words.  We will make a watermelon for our craft and our snack of watermelon will be provided by Maxine!

Sharing:  The Piglets will share this week.

This week we will begin illustrating our fairy tales.  This is a big project and will take a couple of weeks to complete.  We will continue working in our Rhyming Books and they are almost complete.  We will also continue working in our writing journals and use reading games to reinforce sight words, rhyming words and beginning and ending sounds.  We will be completing our April Math Journals this week.  We are also beginning Benchmark Unit 9 this week.

We are beginning our sea life unit and will be creating animals to add to our mural and beginning a partner research project that we will work on daily for the next few weeks.  I am so proud of the Room K students as they continue to work both collaboratively and independently.

Our Schedule This Week:
Monday: Earth Day with our Big Buddies
Tuesday:  Speech & Language, Music (with Mrs. W)
Wednesday:  Let's Find Out! Magazine, Yoga, Council, P.E.
Thursday:  Library
Friday:  Morning Assembly, Homework Review, Sharing, Science Hike, P.E.

Thank you all for your support of Room K!
Mrs. W.

Sharing:  This week the Winnie-The-Poohs & the Eeyors will share..  We are having two groups share due to missing a week during Spring Break.

Speech & Language:  This week we will be practicing the blend /dge/.  We will make a jellyfish, a great beginning to our sea life study unit. Elliot will contribute the snack of jelly sandwiches.

We are so excited that we have reached the end of the alphabet!  The children have been counting down the days.  We will meet Mr. Z with his zipping zippers and complete our Letter People books.  We are also completing our Handwriting Without Tears books, and our Alphabet Dictionary.  We will still be journaling and completing our Rhyming books.  We will be working on our fairy tales, which all students have dictated to me and the children will illustrate their books.  This will take a few weeks to complete but the books will be ready for you to read at Open House in May!  We are finishing up our Benchmark Unit and will begin a new unit after Spring Break.  The children have been enjoying presenting their Nursery Rhymes and we look forward to more this week.  We played Nursery Rhyme Lotto and have been singing nursery rhymes in class too.

We are working in our April math journals and having some fun playing math games and working on our fine motor skills.  We will continue that this week.  Ms. Porter, our music teacher, is now working with the upper grades, but we are continuing music on Tuesdays with rhythm instruments, songs and movement.  If any musicians would like to come in to play for the children during this time, we would love it!

Our Schedule:
Monday:  Big Buddies
Tuesday:  STEM activity (Keep Out the Rain) Speech & Language, music
Wednesday:  Science Fair, Let's Find Out! magazine, Yoga, Council, P.E.
Thursday:  Second Step, Art Trek, Library
Friday:  Story Pirates, Sharing, Homework Review, Science Spin magazine (Ms. Benor out), P.E.

We are looking forward to Spring Break and I wish everyone a restful time with family and friends.
Best wishes,
Mrs. W

Help needed:  We need a few parents able to help tidy up, sweep and organized our outdoor materials shed.  If you can spare an hour, it would be much appreciated!  Please let me know if you can help.

Speech & Language:  This week we will be practicing the initial /fr/ blend.  We will make frogs and our snack of fruit salad will be contributed by Rai!

Sharing:  This week the Tiggers will share. We have a new sharing topic for this month:  Nursery Rhymes.  Each child will prepare a Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme to recite, or act out for the class.  This will take a bit more preparation.  Please refer to the complete assignment on this site under the "more" tab.

Is your child asking a lot of "why" questions?  This is very normal for young children.  They are curious about the world around them and want answers! We have been talking about the difference between a question, a statement and an exclamation when we are learning about punctuation marks.

This week we will meet Ms. Y who has a yodeling yawn.  We will learn about the letter y as a vowel and practice writing this letter which can be tricky for young children to write due to the diagonal line and the formation of the letter. We will be completing our Handwriting Without Tears books learning to form then numbers correctly (we had done this at the beginning of the year and this is a review).  We will begin writing in our own story books after spending last week practicing telling stories with a beginning, middle, and end.  We also reviewed character descriptions and plot development. using the eeBoo Tell Me A Story - Mystery in the Forest cards.  The children have enjoyed these creative cards and will create their stories in writing this week.

Our Schedule:
Monday-Caesar Chavez Day-no school
Tuesday-Speech & Language
Wednesday-Let's Find Out! magazine, yoga, Council, P.E.
Thursday-Second Step, Library
Friday-Sharing(Tiggers), Science, P.E.

Many thanks to our many Room K Helpers!
Best wishes,
Mrs. W.