Dear Parents,

This week is our last full week of school! Next week Wednesday,Thursday, and Friday we have half days of school. So we are in the process of finishing up our units! We are finishing up our unit on Water in Science this week and our unit on People and Places in Social Studies. It feels good to finish some of our workbooks!

In phonics this week we are reviewing the ch, sh sounds and learning th and wh digraphs. Our words of the week this week are our Calendar words! They are:

Saturday

Sunday

Today

Tomorrow

Yesterday

This Friday we will be celebrating some Summer Birthdays! Sarah Hong and William Park's birthdays are in the summer (June and July) so we will have a small party at snack time for them. Next week Thursday, June 5th, we will be celebrating Kristin and Paulina's summer birthdays. They have invited the whole class to a celebration after school! I hope everyone can come!

This week Justin's family is in charge of snack. Thank you!

God Bless,

Miss Wunderink

Dear Parents,

Thank you so much for your support in coming to the Field Trip on Friday! It was such a beautiful day for a picnic, a clear view of Seoul and we certainly got our exercise! It is great to enjoy Namsan as it is so close to us! I also just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your lovely Teachers Day gifts. It was such a surprise! You parents are too good to me!

We have finished our long vowel sounds so we are moving on to consonant digraphs. We will be learning about sh, and ch this week. Our words of the week are:

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

In Social Studies we have begun our unit on people around the world. Today we talked about how families are different and how families are the same from all sorts of different countries. While in Science we are continuing to learn about hte properties of water. This week we will explore surface tension. In math we are focusing on time and how to read a clock to the hour, and half hour. Try practicing this at home with your child.

Thank you all for filling out the survey about Kindergarten graduation. I appreciate your comments and feedback. I will certainly try to implement some of the things you suggested. Your answers varied so I think that graduation shall remain at 5:00pm this year according to the school calendar, so that everyone will for sure be able to come. We shall take your comments to heart for next year. I hope that this graduation will be even better than last year!

This week Friday is Justin's Birthday! So we will have a little party for him at snack time. Next week Friday we shall celebrate all the Summer birthdays! Eunice's family is in charge of snack this week. Thank you for all your help~

God Bless,

Miss Wunderink

Dear Parents,

We have a full week ahead of us! We have our Elementary Field Trip on Friday. We will be going to Namsan tower to view the cityscape of Seoul. This will tie in nicely with what we have learned in social studies about neighborhoods and communities. We will be able to see all the neighborhoods in Seoul, and there is a nice view of our school from up there. Please fill out the permission slip and send it in with your child.

This week we are finishing up our long vowel sounds by studying long-E. Our words are:

down

fall

good

laugh

run

I am starting to prepare and think about kindergarten graduation and I would appreciate some feedback. I will be sending home a small survey about kindergarten graduation. Please take a minute to fill it out and send it back to school with your child. That would be greatly appreciated!

This week Tigger's family is in charge of snack. Thank you!

God Bless,

Miss Wunderink

Dear Parents,

I hope you all had an excellent Children's Day yesterday! This week we will be celebrating another awesome aspect of childhood: Nursery Rhymes! We have learned so many rhymes this year so we want to celebrate all we have accomplished! This Friday we will have our Nursery Rhymes Party. We will play games and make some interesting foods to celebrate all the Nursery rhymes we've learned! Please remember to dress your child in costume on Friday!

We have learned:

Baa Baa Black Sheep, Deedle, Deedle, Dumpling, Georgie Porgie, Hey Diddle Diddle, Two Little Blackbirds, Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Jack be Nimble, Little Boy Blue, Little Miss Muffet, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Mary Mary Quite Contrary, Old Mother Hubbard, The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater,The Queen of Hearts, Sing a Song of Six Pence, Twinkle, Twinkle, Wee Willie Winkie, Down by the Station, This Little Piggy went to market, The cat came piping out of hte barn, AND This old man.

I hope this helps you get an idea for a costume for your child on Friday!

This week we are focusing on the long I  sound in phonics and our words of the week are:

new

ride

saw

under

white

We are finishing our unit in plants this week and we will be moving on to our last unit! We will be studying the properties of water. In Social Studies we will also be completing our unit on Economics (money, basic needs etc...) so we will have a test later this week.

Andrew's family is in charge of snacks this week. Please remember to send your child's report card back to school. Thank you!

I hope you all have a great week!

God Bless,

Miss Wunderink