Mrs. Zwickl’s Kindergarten Class

Our classroom is blooming! Thanks to a generous donation from Whole Foods, we have flowers all over the classroom. We are going to identify the flowers, take some apart and look at the parts of flowers, and they get to be gardeners in our housekeeping area! Please come by and see our beautiful gardens!!

Can you beleive that May is already here? We have some exciting events this week. On Friday, our students will perform at the Cinco de Mayo Celebration in the cafeteria at 2pm.

On Saturday is our CARIVAL from 11-3. We still need your help! Please let us know if you can help out.

 THANKS

Ask your children about butterflies. They have learned about the life cycle of the butterflies and will name them for you! We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and discussed the difference between a cocoon and a chrysalis. We decided that the author made a mistake because butterflies build chrysalis!

Upcoming events:

Awards assembly this Friday at 1:15.

Egg Hunt on Wednesday afternoon

No School next Thurs, Friday and Monday

I hope that everyone has a restful Spring Break. I will be contacting all parents to set up conferences for next week. I look forward to meeting with everyone!!

REMINDER: I have sent home Spring Break Homework. The assignment is to complete a Spring Break journal. I can’t wait to hear about their adventures!

We are studying pets and the children and really enjoying it. We have had a great discussion about the pets that we have, pets that we would like to have and imaginary pets!

We are also going to study St. Patrick’s day this Friday. Please send your child dressed in green clothing….and if you can send in a green snack!!!

We have started to study Zoo Animals this week. We are learning the song “5 Little Mokeys Jumping on the Bed”, making a book about the monkeys, completing word puzzles about zoo animals, and making a zebra and monkey in the art center. Each student will read a book at their reading level about Zoo Animals.

 Next Wednesday, we will continue studying animals by learning about PETS!!! Does anyone have a pet that they would like to bring to school? Let me know!

We will compete in kindergarten Olympics this Thursday, February 24 from 9:30-11:00. I have sent a note home with the event that your child will participate in. It should be a fun day!!

We had opening ceremonies today for our studies of the Winter Olympics. We designed a class flag and had a parade with the other kindergarten classes. We waved flags, blew whistles, and lit our olympic torch. Let the games begin!!