What happened to April!! Sorry I didn't update my newsletter in April the month just flew by and here it is May. Well we had a very productive month in April and I will summarize it for you.  We kicked off this month with Cinco de Mayo, dancing to Spanish music, making a sombrero, hitting the piñata, and shaking the maracas. This week we are preparing for our annual Mother's Day Tea.

April Highlights:

• Science topics included the five senses and insects and frogs, life cycles, the pond habitat and the difference between insects and spiders.
• Spelling words focused on the long o and i vowel sounds and oo.
• Literature included several versions of the folktale "There was an Old Lady who swallowed a Fly", students created their own version and we retold the story to Pre-K4.
• We created Spring poetry, wrote kite stories, and read "New Frog at the Pond" for reader's theater.
• We learned about the parts of a sentence, subject and predicate. 
• We finished up our math unit facts up to 20.
• We finished up our five-week Junior Achievement program.
• In religion we discussed the Pope's visit and his message of forgiveness. We learned about honesty and saying we are sorry and being a peacemaker.

May Highlights:

• Literature will include many Mother's Day stories and books about home and family. We will also begin our Nursery Rhyme unit which will culminate with a puppet performance in early June.
• Our math units are measurement and time.
• We will have a three-week Reading Marathon. At the end of two weeks are total count is 310 books read!
• Science will have us exploring habitats, the ocean and rain forest.
• We will record our poetry reading on a CDs.
• We will continue to learn about parts of a sentence and practice this in our journals.
• We will create animal reports using the computer to find a picture and two facts about the animal.
• We will write Mother's Day poetry and publish the poems using the computer.
• In religion we will discuss Pentecost, Moses, and Mary.

Thank you for all of your support. I have enjoyed watching your child soar this Spring.