Mrs. Runyan’s Newsletter

Month of May 2011

Wow the year is almost done. Thank you for sharing your children with me this year. It has been a great joy to see every one growing and learning this year. I will miss all of you next year as your student head on to 1^st

Math

Review

Addition

Subtraction

Money

Patterns

Math At Home: 

Here are some fun things you can do to help your child practice the math he or she is learning in school.

• Have your child help you do two short chores. When you are finished, ask your child, “Do you think there is a way to do the chore faster?
• Take coins from your pocket or piggy bank. As your child to sort the coins by kind and find the values of each group.
• Try this website: www.SaxonMath.com/MathKActivities let me know if it is working!

Math Vocabulary:

+ To add

= How much in all

- To take away

Language Arts: 

Review

Assessment 10

End of the year assessment

This Months Reading Skills:

Review the year.        

High Frequency Words: I, Can, We, The, Like, A, See, Go, To, Have, Is Play, For, You, This, Do, And, What, Little, Said, Here, Was, She, He, Has, Look, My, Me, With, Was, With, Where

Concept Words: Number words

Phonics: review

Family words: review

Writing: Sentence frames, shared list, rewrite, final project and independent journal writing

Vocabulary: Review

Social Studies: Continents Finish up

Science: Earth Science

Important Dates:

May 13^th Parent Show and Tell
May 16: Field Trip Aquarium Leave at 10:00

May 20 Field Day 12:40 Dismissal

May 23 Pastries for Parents 9:00-10:00

May 24 8th grade Graduation 6:30-8:00

May 25 Kindergarten Graduation 9:00-10:00

May 26 Last Day of School 12:40 Dismissal 1-7^th grade