Final Kindergarten Blog 6/9

Dear Kindergarten Families,

It’s hard to believe that we’ve arrived at the end of the year! Your children have worked hard this year learning how to be in school and grew in every way. They really are almost-first graders.

This week was filled with end-of-year celebrations. On Monday, we released our class butterflies in Carroll Park and had some playground time, had our last Publishing Party with our Buddies and presented our completed map of Smith Street, and had our Summer Birthdays party. We saw the 8th Grade play, The Addams Family. We also had conversations about the end of the year, sharing our mixed feelings.

In Science, we constructed our own butterflies by cutting out forewings, hind wings, admomens, and antenna and gluing them together to make our own butterfly designs while familiarizing ourselves with the anatomy of butterflies.

In Writers Workshop, we tried a new type of writing: opinion writing. Students had to think of a school subject, choice activity, or animal they really like and write on posters two reasons why. In Reading Workshop we continued to work with short vowel sounds and went book shopping for the last time.

In Social Studies we finished our map of Smith Street. We added all the buildings, signs, trees, and vehicles that we could. It looks like the busy place it is!

In music, Kindergarten has been studying the instruments of the orchestra through Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. To end off their musical year, they watched a video of Peter and the Wolf narrated by Itzchak Perlman, conducted by Zubin Mehta. It was a little bit scary, but students know that french horns are made of metal and played by musicians who won’t bite, even though it sounds like they will when they play the character of the wolf. Have a beautiful, musical summer!

This week in Hebrew class, we continued the discussion about the rooms in our homes. The students learned the new rooms within the house such as mitbach (kitchen), salon (living room), chadar ambatya (bathroom), and cheder shena (bedroom). After learning about the different rooms, the students were then able to place a magnet of furniture and attach it to the room where it belongs. They also cut out shapes of the furniture in the rooms using construction paper.

We then started discussing the upcoming season of summer. The students learned the type of weather that happens in summer, what people wear and what people normally eat during the summer. The students were given different pictures of what we wear during winter and summer. They had to point to what people wear during the summer. They also learned these vocabulary words:

חולצה קצרה short sleeve shirt

מכנסים קצרים shorts

סנדלים sandals

גלידה ice cream

אבטיח watermelon

בקבוק מים water bottle

We finished the week with an extra special gathering all together to celebrate our Kindergartners with summer birthdays. It was a delicious, fun, and heartwarming time!

We hope you have a wonderful summer and that your children feel as proud of themselves as we do!

Shabbat Shalom,

K Team

Final Kindergarten Blog 6/9

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