Boom Cards! Summer Learning Opportunity

Hi everybody! Now that I have the classroom cleaned out and gotten things in order for next year, summer can start! I've created these links for Boom Learning for you to use. The links last from 10-14 days, so I will refresh them as needed. These are just for fun, for those of you that would like some activities to keep your kids brains refreshed through the summer until we can get back to school in August!

Math:

Counting 11-20
Ocean Addition
Let's Make 10
Bear Patterns
Counting Beach Bubbles
Subtraction with Apples

Reading:

Beginning Digraphs
ABC Order
Color Words
Rhyming Words
Short a words
Short e words
Short i words
Short o words
Short u words
Sight Words - Crack the Code
Short Vowel Sentences

HighLights at Home

Highlights Magazine is offering fun activities for free this summer.
Check them out HERE

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!