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Slideshows and Summer Learning

Hi Kindergarten families!

I had originally planned on sharing our photo slideshow during our Zoom, but I decided I wanted to see and talk to them and have you watch the slideshow with your family instead! It's about 15 minutes long, but worth watching! I just love these kids and the great memories we made together!

Kindergarten 2019-20 Slideshow

In keeping with kindergarten graduation, I just HAD to put together a "When I Grow Up" montage. Thank you for your help with the pictures! Trinity's Facebook page will be sharing this today as well!

When I Grow Up

I will be in touch as soon as Mr. Petzold makes a decision on Kindergarten Graduation and what that will look like.

Finally, a few families mentioned interest in Boom Card availability over the summer! The kids love these! I have purchased several 'decks' and they would all be review...many of them likely too easy, but still good practice! I will be sharing links to those here on the blog over the summer. The links are good for 10-14 days once I post them, so I will link new ones periodically.

I will also attach some practice packets in the email today. These are ENTIRELY OPTIONAL. 

I hope you all have a memorable summer of making memories with your families. It may not be what we want or hope for, but let's make the best of it and make wonderful memories with our families! Love you all!! Thank you for the wonderful year!

Learning at Home for Friday, May 22

I seriously cannot believe it. This is our last day of school. I want to thank all of you for your patience, understanding, and grace during this unlikely wrap-up to our kindergarten year. I know it's not how we want to wrap up our school year, and not how we would choose to do so...but it is what it is! Thank you all for being amazing partners in your child's education. You are all teacher rock stars! Thank you for your support in your child's education and your support of me this school year. It is one we will ALWAYS remember! Your children are all incredibly special to me. They will always be "my kids" even when they're in other classrooms in the future!

Mr. Petzold will be sharing an end of year chapel at 10:30 am, livestreaming through Trinity's website.

We will be meeting on Zoom at 11:30 am. Your child may bring a stuffed animal to show and share during our zoom meeting!

I had originally intended to share our slideshow of photos from the school year during our zoom meeting, but the quality is degraded when screensharing, so I will send that out tomorrow!

You have until next Friday, May 29, to complete all school work and activities. Report cards will be mailed home mid-June.

Learning at Home for Friday, May 22

1) Phonics - Lesson 135 - Listen to the lesson on combination 'er' words, then complete the review/practice on Seesaw.
2) Read Aloud - Listen to Dream You'll Be
3)Listen to our Devotions
4) Join us for our final Zoom meeting at 11:30 am!

Optional:
Virtual Field Trip - Slime in Space!
“ Nickelodeon teamed up with two astronauts on the International Space Station to demonstrate how slime reacts to microgravity and had kids reproduce those same demonstrations back here on Earth. It makes for an amazing 15-minute virtual field trip!”

Think space and astronauts are super cool? Check out this tour of the International Space Station and how the astronauts live while they are there!

Learning at Home for Thursday, May 21

Learning at Home for Thursday, May 21
Our Zoom will be on Friday at 11:30 to celebrate our last day! See you there! Details will be in tomorrow's email.

1) Phonics Lesson 134 - Listen to the lesson on combination 'or' like in the word 'fork', then complete the listening and reading activity on Seesaw
2) Math - Order the numbers from least to greatest
3) Read Aloud - Listen to A Friend Like You

4) Science - Living and Nonliving - listen to our video and learn about living and nonliving things. Living things change and grow and have needs. Nonliving things might change over time due to other things, but do not change on their own or grow. Then, complete the Seesaw living/nonliving sort!
Also, just for fun...check out the baby worms I found while digging up my garden!
5) Listen to our Devotions

Optional:
Virtual Field Trip!
Check out the Dinosaurs at this Dinosaurs in Motion exhibit or the Butterflies at Butterfly World!

Ava’s caterpillars:

Learning at Home for Wednesday, May 20

Learning at Home for Wednesday, May 20

1) Phonics - Lesson 133 - Learn about combination 'ar' like in the word 'mark', then complete the listening and reading activity on Seesaw.
2) Math - Subtraction Boom Cards
3) Read Aloud - Listen to The Mixed-Up Alphabet
4) Science - Animals All Around Us - Listen to the science lesson and learn about how animals all around us are the SAME and DIFFERENT. Then, complete the 'living things need' sort on Seesaw.
5) Listen to our Devotions and join Mrs. Huff with chapel songs!

Optional:
Virtual Field Trip! Take a trip to the Miami Zoo And check out the cool animals!
Want to check out some underwater animals too? Check out the Coral Reef online field trip underwater!

Alyssa's fun finds from her bug hunt:
  

Jude's butterflies:

Learning at Home for Tuesday, May 19

Learning at Home for Tuesday, May 19

1) Phonics Lesson 132 - Review of digraphs. Watch the lesson, then complete the activity on Seesaw.
2) Science - Listen to the video and learn about Isopods (like pillbugs/rolypoly) and check out the Roly Poly that Keane and I found on our walk!
3a) Read Aloud - Listen to When I Grow Up
3b) Complete the "When I grow up" worksheet either on Seesaw or print and complete and send me a picture!
4)Handwriting - Letters Yy and Zz
5) Listen to our Devotions

Spanish from Senora Phillips:

¡Hola clase! I am so super proud of all your hard work learning español from home!  I hope and pray you have a wonderful summer break and I can't wait to see you next year!

Here is one last story to listen to.  Do you hear any words that we have learned this year?

https://youtu.be/oQtDIhxAgoo

¡Hasta luego!   Señora Phillips

Optional:
Learning Mats
Virtual Field Trip! Take a trip to a FARM to learn all about the animals!
If you enjoyed that, here is a longer tour of a Dairy Farm!

Learning at Home for Friday, May 15

Learning at Home for Friday, May 15

1) Phonics - Listen to Lesson 131 on digraph ee, then follow along with our decodable reader Three Rich Sheep
2) Math Making Ten game
3) Read Aloud - Knuffle Bunny
4) Science - Listen to our Lesson on a new animal. Can you guess what animal? Then go outside and see if you can find one! Remember to be a scientist - LOOK and OBSERVE, no need to touch, grab, or catch them!
5) Listen to our devotions

Optional:
Phonics or math pages from the packet

Check out Ava’s caterpillars! She is making sure they have everything they need: food, water, shelter, fresh air, and space to grow!

Learning at Home for Thursday, May 14

Learning at Home for Thursday , May 14

1) Phonics Lesson 129/130 Listen to our lesson about digraph ch and complete the activities on Seesaw
2) Math - Practice identifying coins (optional)
3) Read Aloud - Listen to The Very Brave Bear
4) Science - Bird Observations and Labeling - listen to our science lesson, then go to Seesaw to complete the bird labeling activity
5) Listen to our Devotions

Optional:
Living or Non-Living?

Learning at Home for Wednesday, May 13

Learning at Home for Wednesday, May 13

1) Phonics Lesson 128 Learn about u consonant e and e consonant e. See what happens to the vowel when sneaky e/silent e comes into the word! Listen to the lesson, then complete the assignment on Seesaw.
2) Math - practice subtraction HERE
3) Read Aloud - Listen to Rocket Writes a Story
4) Complete the Reading Response for Rocket Writes a Story - tell me a story! It can be about ANYTHING!

5) Listen to our Devotions
6) Spanish from Senora Phillips. The worksheet will be in your email!

¡Hola! Today we are going to learn about "la comunidad" or places in your community.  

Watch this video:

https://youtu.be/iCzbHyu_dZo

Here is a worksheet to do after the video (attached):

Here is a song about "la comunidad." Do you hear any of the words we learned today?

https://youtu.be/iM-2SgBv3mA

OPTIONAL: extra practice with Sneaky E words (they call them 'Magic e' here - same thing!)

Learning at Home for Tuesday, May 12

Hi kindergarten families! We are heading into the home stretch here! We have just 2 weeks of instruction left. We have 135 lessons in phonics and math, but most of our math is review at this point and don't require a recorded lesson along with the practice. We will have JUST enough time to squeeze our phonics videos in during these last 2 weeks! Keep it up, kindergarten READERS, you're doing great!!

Learning at Home for Tuesday, May 12

1) Phonics Lesson 126/127
2) Math- Click here for Measurement practice: Measurement Students will use shells to measure different objects. Remind students to use the shells like we used our blocks in class and start them at the very beginning of the line, and to line them up closely.
3) Read Aloud - Listen to our story: Made By God: Cats, Dogs, Hamsters, and Horses
4) Handwriting - Letters Ww and Xx
5) Listen to our Devotions

Learn at Home for Friday, May 8

Kindergarten families - you are AMAZING and you sure know how to make your teacher feel loved! Thank you so much for taking time to drive by my house today. It meant the world to me! I think I smiled all afternoon (while drinking my iced cap and eating chocolates!) Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Happy Mother’s Day to all of you Moms - I hope you have a wonderful day with your families and they make it a special day for you!

Learning plan for Friday, May 8:

1) Phonics Lesson 125 - Learn about ‘sneaky e’ (silent e) that makes a vowel say it’s own name, like the ‘a’ in make or shade. Go to Seesaw to complete the activity, matching words to pictures.

2) Math Lesson 130 - Learn about solving a subtraction problem by drawing a picture, then complete the activity on Seesaw.

3) Read Aloud - Listen to The Flea's Sneeze

4) Science - Listen and learn All About Birds

5) Listen to our Devotions

TOP SECRET- No peeking, Moms!

Here are the images from our directed drawing in case kids needed extra time to complete their pictures!

Learn at Home for Thursday, May 7

Meet us on Zoom today(Thursday)! Please have 2-3 pieces of blank paper and a pencil with eraser. Make sure you have a surface to write on as we meet!

Zoom info will be emailed

1) Phonics Lesson 124 - listen to our lesson and follow along with Decodable Reader #13 (Look Who Can Cook) - if you have the book, follow along in yours. If not, follow along on the screen! Then, complete the activity on Seesaw.
2) Math - Listen to the lesson on Symmetry then complete the activity on Seesaw
3) Read Aloud - Listen to Princess Pigsty
4) Listen to our Devotions
5) Join us for Zoom at 10 am!

Learn at Home for Wednesday, May 6

Thursday 10 am will be our Zoom meeting for this week! Please bring 2 blank pieces of paper, a pencil with eraser, and make sure you have space to write/draw on your paper while you ZOOM with us! Zoom details will be in tomorrow's email.

1) Phonics Lesson 123 - Digraph oo (like in mood, boom, zoo). Listen and participate with our lesson, then complete the activity on Seesaw
2) Math - Listen to Lesson 127/128 on Some, Some Went Away stories and complete activities on Seesaw. There is one activity, but it has 3 pages to swipe to. Please make sure your child sees and completes all 3 pages!
3) Read Aloud - Listen to Why I Love My Mommy
     TOP SECRET ACTIVITY - Have Dad or an older brother or sister help you with this part!     
     (attachment in email)
4) Handwriting - Letters Uu & Vv
5) Science - go out an observe BIRDS in your yard, in your neighborhood, or when you go for a walk. What do you notice about the birds? How many types can you spot? How are they alike or different from each other? Can you identify any?
6) Listen to our Devotions and listen to Worship Songs with Mrs. Huff!

 OPTIONAL: Use paper towel tubes, toilet paper tubes, or paper rolled up into tubed to make yourself a pair of "binoculars" to go bird-watching!

Optional:
Reading Comprehension with Short Vowels
Addition with 5 cubes - practice
Short Vowel i words

Learning at Home for Tuesday, May 5

Hello Kindergarten Families! We're heading into another week of learning at home! This week's Zoom meeting will be on Thursday at 10 am. I will be sending out the link/meeting info on Wednesday!

Learning at Home for Tuesday, May 5

1) Phonics Lesson 121/122 - Learn about Digraph oo (like in hook, book, good) and complete the activity on Seesaw

2) Math - Lesson 126 (Review) - Complete activity on Seesaw

3) Read Aloud - Listen to Giraffes Can't Dance and complete your Reading Response

4) Science - Listen to our lesson here on a new type of animal! Can you figure out what animal it is? Listen to our lesson and try to figure out how this animal is similar to and different from other animals you see!

5) Listen to our Devotions
6) Spanish from Senora Phillips:

¡Hola clase! ¡Hoy es el cinco de mayo!/Today is Cinco de Mayo!  Can you count to cinco/5? 

Cinco de mayo is celebration that remembers a famous battle between Mexico and France.  Mexico had a small army of peasants and France had a big, strong army.  Guess who won?  Mexico!  Today we celebrate Cinco de mayo with Mexican food (like tacos!), piñatas, dancing and Mariachi bands.

Listen to this book about a mouse who joins in on a Cinco de mayo celebration.

https://youtu.be/EssNKi5_15s

Now, watch these kids dancing the Mexican hat dance.  Can you dance the Mexian hat dance too?

https://youtu.be/TN9pi-FX8uI

Optional:
Learning Mats Activities (link in email)