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As the last month of school is approaching, Kindergartners are preparing themselves even more diligently for First Grade. The work they have accomplished at each of their learning centers is a reflection of how much they have grown over the course of the school year! Each child is a reader and writer at his or her own developmental level. At the reading center, they have been using various strategies to read the texts in our leveled readers and letter books. At the writing center, they have been sounding out words to write sentences in their journals. At the math center, they have been completing activities that are the basis of addition and subtraction. At the art center, they continue to develop their fine-motor skills and experiment with a multitude of art media. Finally, our StudentLed conferences gave the children a chance to celebrate their growth with their families! Ms. Anna and Ms. Ashley
We are very proud of the progress your children have made. We will enjoy watching them reach for challenges in the future. We believe that this is what school and life are about. We hope that your childs First Grade experiences have added the necessary tools for coping with future challenges. Our best to all of you and enjoy the summer. To those returning to our school community, see you in the Fall. For those moving to other schools, Best wishes to you and dont forget to drop us a line. Most sincerely, Ms. Birbil, Ms. Lamprou and Ms. Ficke
Included in this trimesters reading unit is the study of poetry. One author students have studied is Shel Siverstein. They have come to love his work due to his amusing and comical short poems. They have even come up with unique poems of their own playing with rhymes. Soon they will be adding more literary elements that are found in poetry as we continue to study this genre. Students will be able to further create poems as they are in the process of discovering the different types of poems such
ESL News
It is unbelievable how fast the year has gone by and how much knowledge the students have soaked up! Students are using their English to effectively communicate inside and outside of the classroom with teachers and friends! First graders have gained leagues in their reading fluency and comprehension! They have participated in numerous reading activities with other students and myself! Grammar has also been a part of our weekly lessons as they learn how to put sentences together correctly. Grade!! Way to go First extensive writing required in Fifth grade. Our focus has been on developing topic sentences to establish the main idea, including details, and wrapping up their writing with closing statements. Fifth grade will continue to work on improving their writing by making their ideas more clear, writing more descriptively, and editing for grammar. A big congratulations to the Fifth graders on all of their hard work and successes.
The Second graders continue to focus on reading comprehension and building up their vocabularies as we look at more difficult words and find their synonyms and antonyms. Third graders have covered immense demonstrating their learned knowledge in every area! Fourth grade has honed in on improving writing skills to prepare them for the