Last Week!

May 18-21

I can not believe this is the last week of kindergarten!  As I have looked back over this year I have been thrilled and amazed with how each of your children has grown!  I am so very honored to have had a front row seat to watch!  And…we still have lots of memories to make this week!

Monday - Nature Walk - 9:00.  Please be sure your child wears tennis shoes and brings a snack and a water bottle (one they can carry).  We will walk the nature trail with a couple of the other kindergarten classes.  If any parents would like to join us, we would love to have you.  Just let me know. 

We will also pick up our yearbooks in the morning and spend some time looking at them and signing them.  You should see kindergarteners signing yearbooks!  ;)

Tuesday - Talent show - 9:00 - This is always so much fun!  You are welcome to join us in the auditorium to enjoy the talent show if you like! 

Wednesday - Kindergarten "FUN" Day - Kindergarten does NOT participate in the school wide Honors Day.  Therefore your child does NOT need to wear dressy enrichment day clothes.  In fact, please don't!  We are going to enjoy a day of some of our favorite Kindergarten actives, many outside, including bubbles!

Thursday - We will celebrate some of our favorite things from Kindergarten and teacher appreciation day.

Please note the whole school has noon dismissal Tuesday - Thursday.  That always makes for CRAZY carpool!!  We will plan to be out to carpool by 12:00 each day in order to get through the halls before it is too much for us to navigate!  Feel free to meet us on the sidewalk as we exit the building if you want to avoid the very long car line.  It is, of course, especially crazy on Thursday.  Please plan to pick your child up in the classroom on Thursday.  You will need to come into the building that day to pick up your child's "report card" in the office.  Those will be available at noon.  We will be sure to be ready for you by 11:50 so that you can pick up any other children or stop by the office at noon.  

On Thursday I will tell the children about their homework for the summer. 

• Play outside
• Get dirty (like ring-around-the-bathtub dirty!)
• Go swimming
• Read good books
• Talk to God everyday

I can not end this last blog post without attempting to express my gratitude for all of you this year.  This has certainly been the most difficult year of my life, but through that God has used your children and your families to be an incredible blessing to me and my family.  Your prayers as a family are evident in the way your children have prayed at school.  You have brought meals, sent cards, helped in the classroom, prayed and encouraged.  I will forever cherish the way your precious children have prayed faithfully and fervently for Kylie, the Myers and for me.  I have been so thankful for every day spent with your children and every hug I have received from them.  There were days when God provided my anchor in the storm through time with them.  I have loved every class God has given me the privilege to teach, but this particular class will forever hold a very special place in my heart.  

I pray each of your families has a wonderful, fun summer!  Enjoy!!!
I love you all!
Rhonda

Short u and Rumplestlitzkin

May 4-7

Sound of the Week – short u
Book of the Week – RumplestiltzkinHabit of the Month – TruthfulnessMom of the Month – Amy Adkison


We had a wonderful week!  Thank you Bonnie Pruitt, for teaching us to paint a cherry tree branch as we wrapped up our study of China.  We were so proud of our beautiful paintings!

We also enjoyed celebrating not only Whit's birthday, but his mom's as well!

This is a big week!  We are so excited about our field trip to Morning Glory Farm on Tuesday!  (and the weather is supposed to be wonderful!)  Here are some important reminders for Tuesday:

• Arrive at school at the regular time.  We will depart at 9:00.
• Plan on pick up at 1:15, in the regular carpool location.
• Students should wear casual enrichment day attire - khaki shorts/skort, pants or jeans, navy polo and tennis shoes.
• Send a disposable sack lunch and water bottle.
• Students must have a booster seat to go on the trip.

Wednesday will be our last chapel this year.  Please be sure you child wears their dressy enrichment day attire on Wednesday.  

This week’s book is a fairy tale – a Grimm Brothers fairy tale, Rumplestiltzkin.  We will learn this week that fairy tales were stories told from generation to generation, and finally collected and written down by the Grimm brothers.  Paul O. Zelinsky is our author and illustrator this week, and he won a Caldecott honor for his re-telling and illustration of this famous fairy tale.  We’ll remember that Anna read this fairy tale to Amber in Amber on the Mountain.  We’ll notice that Anna’s tale had a different ending... that’s the way it is with things that are told and retold and retold again.  We’ll also read other Grimm’s fairy tales this week.  We’ll learn about Walt Disney, and his re-telling of many of our favorite fairy tales.  For more great  summer reading ideas, spend some time reading Grimm’s versions... never settle for anything but the original!  

Also remember that the rising grade level meeting and Campus meeting will be Tuesday, May 12, starting at 6:15.  You will attend the Pre 1st or 1st Grade meeting, followed by the campus meeting.