Kriletown Adventures - Week 29

Welcome to week twenty nine of Kriletown News. Here is a look into our adventures this week.

Important Dates

• Friday, April 18 - No School

• Wednesday, April 23 - Early Release Day, 1:00 pm dismiss

• Tuesday, May 6 - No School

• Thursday, May 8 - Kriletown to Pioneer Planetarium more info to come
  

Curriculum

Word Work

This week we started work with vowel teams oo and u. Our heart words this week were dear, always, almost, and talk.  These are words that do not follow traditional spelling rules. Our FANCY vocabulary words were ’relax', ’explore', 'texture' and ’author’. 

Reading

This week we started a great chapter book series Junie B. Jones. We discussed these books are written in the characters five year old voice. We are working on creating movies in our heads.

Math

We have had fun reviewing fact families. We talked about sides and vertexes of 2D shapes.

Writer’s Workshop

We started a book all about being a good citizen.

Social/Emotional Learning - Life Skills

This week we reviewed what it means to have empathy. We discussed how important it is to think about how others are feeling.

Social Studies/Science

We started our social studies unit on citizenship. We discussed how important it is for all of us to be respectful of one another even when we have different opinions. We discussed how being respectful and kind go hand in hand.

School Stuff:

End of Day:

If your students end of day plans change you must send me and email by 3:00 the day of or I will proceed with their usual pick up plan. Please do not sent this information verbally through your student.

SNACK DONATIONS

We need April donations please!! Popular items have been cheese its, fruit snacks, z bars, bananas and clementines! You can also look at our Amazon wish list for ideas. 

From past newsletters....

Class books

These books will are making their way to each of your homes. When a large manila envelope comes home in your littles backpack please read through the book together and return the next school day. If you would like to leave a book review on a class book that comes home. Please attach a post it note to the large envelope. The littles love to hear what you think of their creations :) 

Computers

Please be sure to send the computer FULLY charged each day. We will be using them daily. Please also send the charger. I am not supplied a classroom charger. 

Attendance Line

When your student is absent please use the following email to report the absence log_attendance@aaps.k12.mi.us

Instagram

If you would like to see adventures from our days together you can request to follow @Kriletown. 

Donations

To donate much needed items you can find the Kriletown wishlist here. 

Have a wonderful weekend!!