Important DatesMay 9: Outragehiss Pets

May 13-17: National Green WeekMay 13: Found Sound AssemblyMay 15: Michael Albert Artist VisitMay 20: Frozen Yogurt PartyMay 23: Reynolds/Bogert Art ShowMay 24: Memorial Day SingMay 29: Messy DayMay 31: Kindergarten Visitation

May News Junior Kindergarten

Science & Social

Studies Themes

Spring

Insects

Ocean Life

Chicks/Ducks

Recycling

Towns/Maps

Letter & Word Work/Phonics

*Letter Sounds: Ss, Aa, Nn, Pp, Ll, Dd, Hh, Cc, Bb, Rr, Mm, Ff, Jj, Ww, Tt, Gg, Oo, Yy, Kk, Ee, Vv, Qq, Ii, Uu, Xx, Zz

*Sight Words: I, no, a, the, see, to, can, go, red, am, me, is, in, my, he/she, on, my, you, love, we, will, like, are, it, up, at, look, they, and, went, did, little, for

Reading/Language Arts

*Shared Reading: Big Books/Poems

*Shared Writing

*Literature Extensions

*Phonemic Awareness

*Just right books

*Decoding

Handwriting

*Pencil Grip

*Posture

*Tracing

*Name writing

*Frog Jump Capitals: F,E,D,P,B,R,N,M

*Left Start Capitals: H,K,L,U,V,W,X,Y,Z

*Center Start Capitals

*Lowercase letters

*Sentence writing

Math

*Shapes/Colors

*Number Identification

*Number Writing

*Patterning

*Sorting

*Counting

*Graphing/Data Collection

*Number Sense

*Quantity Discrimination

*Measurement

*Missing Numbers

*3D Shapes

*Time to Hour

*Fractions ½ / Equal Parts

*Number stories: addition

*Solid shapes

*Number stories: subtraction

*100 Number Chart

Open Circle/Social Skills

*Getting to Know One Another

*School Listening Look

*Calm breathing

*Problem Solving

*Giving/Receiving a Compliment

*Traffic light/ Think & plan to be a problem solver

*Including others

Star Power Word:

Problem