Puppy Tales - The last week of April, 2010!

The Wild Wild (and getting Wilder) West! We will have many fun activities this week that will get us ready for our Western Day on Thursday 4/29! On Western Day, the kids may wear jeans or a jeans skirt if they would like. If he/she has cowboy boots, they may wear those. Hats and bandannas are also fine. We will be having a fun time that day on the tennis courts rotating to different stations for a variety of western activities!

Friday will be our day to go on the ZOO field trip! More information will go home about that. Parents will meet us there and can follow the bus if they would like. Kids have to ride the bus to the zoo but as soon as we get there I will give them to you and you can "do the zoo" on your own or with some friends. All of my kids have a sweet mom, dad or grandparent meeting us there so I know they will all have a special time there. You will take your own child with you when you leave the zoo. I will not count on seeing any of you again unless we happen to run into each other.

Our play is really shaping up! Keep working on those lines! We have a big group practice on Wednesday so they really need to know them by then. The play is May 6th at 9:00. It will be in the lower gym where the Thanksgiving play was.

Field Day (my own personal favorite day of the year at GWA!!) is the next day May 7th. Be thinking about sun screen - which you will apply before school that day - and water-type shoes. NO SOCKS will be worn that day. Each child will need a towel! Try to come down to the football field to watch. It will make you glad you have your child at GWA!! School is over after field day ends - around 11:30! ALL PARENTS NEED TO PICK UP THEIR CHILD AT THE FOOTBALL FIELD BY 11:00. Mrs. Baker and I will have your child so let us know before you take him/her. THERE IS NO CARPOOL THAT DAY! You will see why. There will however be cars everywhere so you may want to just come and stay with us for the day. Little sibblings are welcome to watch but can not participate in any of the games. The senior class at GWA runs all fo the games and everythings runs like clockwork. There is no extra time for little sibblings to "have a turn". We would love to have them come cheer though.

22 Days left with the Puppy Pals!

April 19th - 23rd Puppy Tales

We had a great time this week watching caterpillars, learning about butterflies, and eating dirt. Well the yummy kind of dirt we made at our cooking center with Will's mom. The kids made dirt and added worms and a fun flower that we can play with at home. We have been practicing using the numbers and letters we have learned this year. We also learned about sentences, questions and exclamations as well as punctuation marks.

Next week we will learn about plants but continue to do many other "spring" activities. We will keep reviewing and working with letters and sounds to sound out words and sentences when reading and writing. Let's put all of this hard work to use!! Have your child write every day even if it is just one sentence.

After we do plants next week, we will do a wild west unit and have a fun Western day on 4/29 with many outside activities. The kids can wear jeans, jean shorts, or a jean skirt if they want to. They can also wear a cowboy hat or boots. Bandannas can be used as belts, on hats or around their necks as well.

4/30 zoo field trip, 5/7 field day

One thing we have been doing that the kids love is taking turns pointing to the sight words to make sentences. To be sure you have them all, so far we have:

We are adding "not" and "play"
and the number words

all color words
A
a
I
look
go
at
is
it
in
we
he
me
see
the
you
to
name
and
little
am
have
for
like
was

Ponds, Spring and Insects

I hope y'all had a wonderful Spring Break. We are jumping right back into the swing of things here. This week we will talk about Spring, Ponds and Insects. We will spend the rest of the year reviewing letters and letter sounds and working on sight words. We will keep practicing our reading and writing as well as using sight words to make sentences. Can you believe there are only 6 weeks left of school!! We'll keep working away here and we will send you some summer homework to practice for next year as soon as the K5 teachers give it to us. Plan on getting a composition book and having your child write at least 1 sentence EACH AND EVERY DAY. Even if they only write down what they want for lunch or what their favorite thing was that they did that day! This will help keep them on their toes all summer for next year!

Play parts went home yesterday!! Please help you child learn his/her lines for our play. We will work hard on them here but we need extra help on this at home as well. As soon as we know what the kids will wear for the play we will let you know. The play is May 6th in the morning probably around 9.

Our ZOO field trip is on April 30th. All of you are welcome to come to this. Meet us there and bring young siblings too if you want to. You will just be responsible for your own child.

There is a football registration meeting for K5 boys Tuesday 4/13 and Wednesday 4/14 from 2:30-4:00 in the school cafeteria.

GWA Spirit night at Chick-Fil-A is Wednesday 4/14. Dine in or drive thru - just give them the receipt and tell them you are there to support GWA!!