Poindexter Press for May 5th-9th, 2008

Dear Parents,
Welcome to the first full week of May! Time just flies by doesn’t it? We have been very busy this week! We are in the very beginning processes of getting everything all wrapped up for the year. Mrs. Poindexter has been doing the last round of assessments and the children have been very flexible with the changes in our schedule! ☺ We learned how to play a new math game called Roll, Add and Place! The children have two number dice (numbers 0-5) on them and a sheet of paper labeled with the numbers 0-10. They roll both at the same time and add the numbers together. They then place a cube under the correct number on their recording sheet. We played this game with a partner and alone and the children seem to love it! ☺
We have also been checking in with our beanstalks, our Wisconsin Fast plants, and our vegetables. All are growing very nicely and our beanstalks will be coming home today! If you are able to move the beanstalks outside and plant them in the ground—the plants will continue growing and you could even harvest the beans.
The children have also had time to explore our Science and Reading Center boxes (provided to us through a PTO grant 3 years ago). They have been practicing skills such as; listening for beginning, middle, and ending sounds, printing letters, recognizing letters, making sight words, parts of plants, exploring with magnets, mixing color wands, and sorting different materials by various attributes.
Be sure to make a note of all the upcoming dates in May—it’s a busy month for all and you don’t want to miss it! ☺

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Have a wonderful weekend—check out the blog!!
Kristen Poindexter ☺