May 26-29th 2026

Hello Families,

I hope you are enjoying the long weekend, despite this nasty weather. I can't wait to see my students tomorrow- it seems like it has been a long time because I was so sick and taking Friday off for my daughter's wedding! Fortunately, I was well (enough) to enjoy every minute and dance the night away😄💖.

This week...will be one with mixed emotions for me! It seems like yesterday that the kindergarten teachers met your children at kindergarten screening. This week, I will be conducting screenings on the upcoming kindergarteners on Thurs and will not be in the classroom. I do not like to be out of the classroom! Mrs. DiNoia will be in charge and there will (hopefully) be a sub to help her. Please note that I will check emails before and after school, but will not get the chance during the day as we have a full schedule. IF you need to contact the classroom, please call the office and they will get the message to room 103. Mrs. DiNoia will be giving me an update at the end of the day:).

*IMPORTANT:PLEASE fill out this google form for our field trip if you haven't! I will need to give the kitchen all our lunch orders on Tuesday 5/26. 

HERE is our K Important Events Schedule

This week, we will continue our ocean animal theme. The students will be sequencing fiction and non-fiction stories, writing their own story and reading sentences with trick words.  They will be practicing math facts, writing numbers and solving number stories this week as well. In science, the students will be learning a little bit about seahorses and then they will pick an ocean animal that we have learned about and begin their big "research reports"! 

Because I was not in the classroom for so much of last week, I do not have many pictures - but here are a few!

May 18-22 2026

 

Your children did a GREAT job at the K concert! There were some butterflies beforehand, but they were able to overcome and felt so proud of themselves after. 

We will continue our Ocean theme next week and learn about more ocean animals, comparing and contrasting the ones we have learned.

The students will also be participating in the spring mCLASS assessment (phonics) as well as the Into Math Growth Measure, which will be administered throughout the next few weeks. 

We have officially completed our Into Math curriculum! For the rest of the school year, we will continue to review all the math skills learned to date as well as do some enrichment activities with algebraic concepts, multiplication concepts and fractions. We will be doing this with games and project based learning. The students will also practice some coding skills!

We have also officially completed Wit and Wisdom for the school year! We will be able to dive into theme writing and will be reading some amazing books to complete the school year. Students will continue to practice the skills learned throughout the year in W&W as well as Fundations skills (they are writing sentences with digraphs!). They will also practice all the sight words when writing and in different games. We have learned all the K sight words and will be reviewing for the rest of the school year.  

The Kona Ice Truck will be coming to Shaker Lane on Wednesday! Each student can get a frozen treat (if you do not want your child to have one, please let me know in advance:).

Friday is a 1/2 day of school.

HERE is the Important End of Year Events document!

Here are some pictures from last week's fun!

Thank you to Willow's Mom for being our Mystery Reader!💖

The Imagatorium!

May 11-15th 2026 OCEANS week 2!

 Hello Families,

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms of room 103! 

The students were so engaged in their STEM challenge and they began the planning stage. Next week, they will do their building!

HERE are the end of year important events

DON'T FORGET: OUR K CONCERT IS FRIDAY 5/15 @ 9:30!

You will want to get there a little early to get a good seat (it was standing room last year!). Once we start our rehearsals on the stage, I will email you to let you know where our class will be so you can get the best views! 

We finished our Wit and Wisdom 7 Continents theme this week with a big project and will be all immersed in all things ocean! Next week is a full week of school.

In language arts, the children will:

• write more complex sentences using trick words and digraphs
• practice reading real/nonsense words with digraphs
• sequence a story with main events
• learn the new trick words: by, do, one
• practice differentiating between vowel sounds to make and manipulate words
• segment words with blends (this is very tricky for most of them!)
• read and listen to many fiction and non fiction books about the ocean!
• write facts about sea turtles and label the parts of one

In math, the children will:

• measure and compare the length of a blue whale and a great white shark....and themselves!
• review, review and more review of math facts through 10
• solve number stories using ocean animals
• demonstrate different ways to make 10
• sequencing numbers 0-20
• complete the unit 5 assessment on measurement and weight

Over the next few weeks in science, the children will:

• learn and complete an experiment about why we float better in ocean water than lake water (due to the density of salty water vs lake)
• compare what we learn about sharks, whales, seahorses, dolphins and octopuses 
• write a research paper on an ocean animal

In SEL, the children will:

continue to practice the skills our class needs to review such as waiting for turns, being aware of others around them and using whole body listening. We are also using "size of the problem" strategies to help with emotional regulation.

Here are pictures from last week: 

Thank you to Locke's grandparents for being our Mystery Readers!

The students voted to have an extra recess with the playground all to themselves!

MATH TIME: sequencing numbers, demonstrating the concepts of length and height and weight

Choice Time Creations!

Science Table- shell exploration!

Water Table- looking for ocean animals

TEAM WORK!

I
IMAGATORIUM- planning our projects!

DAILY 5 :ELA practice