What a Week, or Two!

It has been a very busy couple of weeks since spring break. Students have been busy learning and preparing for our first ever Leadership Day plus our annual Student Showcase Night.

Leadership Day Assembly and Room Visits

For our Leadership Day Kipling students and staff prepared for over 60 guests that came from our community and school districts near and far. We kicked off the day with an all school assembly. The assembly featured student speakers and our own Kipling Choir.

After the assembly, we had four guests come back to our classroom. Room 5 students were stationed around the room ready to explain to our guests what Leader in Me is all about. They all did a fantastic job!

Student Showcase

Our leadership continued into the night as students continued to show their leadership skills as they guided their parents around our classroom and school. They showed and explained all the great learning that has been going on this year.

Math

We are learning about different shapes and their attributes. We learned a new game called "Last Shape in Wins." We played with partners.

We played another game with some pattern block shapes called "Attribute Train Game."

Blogging

We did a lot of Blogging this week about all the events that took place. If you did not look at your child's Kidblog at Showcase, ask them to take a look at it now.

Star Leaders

In the past two weeks we have had another two great Star Leaders. We love learning about our classmates through pictures and information. We always enjoy guessing the Mystery Bag as well as seeing how talented our classmates are. These two boys were all about the somersaults. We also heard two great stories.

Mystery Readers

We had Mrs. Crane come to be our Mystery Reader. No better way to kick off your birthday weekend, than to have mom come to your class.

This Week

4-25 to 4-29

Another busy week this week. Tomorrow is our Art/Music Show. We will kick the evening off at 6:00 with an art show. That will be followed by the Music Show at 6:30. I hope to see you all there.

Friday, 1st graders will travel to the Marriott Lincolnshire Theater to see "Cinderella After the Ball." We have been reading many different versions of the Cinderella story. It will be fun to see what happens after she lives happily ever after.

ELA

Grammar
We will work on sounds:

• long e spelled (ey)
• /ur/ spelled (ear)
• /shun/ spelled (tion)
• prefixes - dis and mis
• review commands

Reading

We will continue reading Cinderella stories. This week we will compare and contrast. . .

• Ye Shen - Chinese Cinderella
• The Korean Cinderella

Writing

We started a journal where students will be writing daily to enhance their writing skills by focusing on making sure sure their journal entries always include a topic, descriptive details and a closing sentence. 

Math

This week in math we will focus on. . . 

• compose 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional shapes
• create composite shapes and compose new shapes from composite shapes.

Science

We will wrap up our unit on light and sound in Science. 

Leader in Me

Students will continue to focus on identifying our plus/deltas each day. 

Specials Schedule

Monday - Day 3 - PE and Spanish 
Tuesday - Day 4 - LMC - Remember your books

Wednesday - Day 5 - Art and Music

Thursday - Day 1 - PE and Spanish

Friday - Day 2 - Music and Art

Have a great week!