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Kindergarten students are ending their year in library by participating in a variety of reading and technology centers with Mrs. Flannery. Students are doing a great job picking up the new routine and are enjoying the variety of activities each week.

Read alouds for PreK and K are continuing with Mrs. Flannery and Mrs. Hill and have included the following titles:

Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise by Sean Taylor

Hoot and Peep by Lita Judge

Livingstone Mouse Pamela Duncan Edwards

Poodlena E. B. Henry

We are in a book! Mo Willems

Good news/Bad news Jeff Mack

The Pigeon wants a Puppy Mo Willems

Whose Garden is it? Mary Ann Hoberman

Don’t Tell the Whole World Joanna Cole

My Side of the Car Kate Feiffer

Dandelion Don Freeman

Punk Farm On Tour Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Summer reading information will be coming home in June but all families should have received a flyer about the book swap. Students are asked to bring in 2-5 gentle used books. At the book swap, our hope is to send all students home with 2 books. Please bring your book donations into the library by the end of May. Thank you!

Also please note that the last day for book check out will be Friday May 26th. All books are due back to the library no later than Friday June 2nd.

Thank you for all your support this year, we can't wait to see everyone back as 1st graders!

Mrs. Flannery and Mrs. Hill

Preschool students have enjoyed learning to sing along to lots of new songs this month, such as the “Cheetah Pride” song about Memorial School, “Monkey Stomps His Feet”, and “Charlie Over the Ocean”. We practiced our steady beat as we pretended to chop ingredients to make ice cream with the poem “Chop Chop Chippity Chop”. We also practiced using our singing voices and talking voices to greet one another!

Kindergarten students have finished learning about their musical comparison words: loud/soft, fast/slow, high/low, short/long, and smooth/bumpy. Now, students continue their work with vocal exploration through silly stories like “Cowboy Joe”, “The Ice Cream Sundae”, and “The Blue Cockatoo”. All of the students are also growing in their abilities to make a “perfect match” (match pitch) with another voice that is singing! We are also practicing music for the kindergarten show in music class! Students practice self-evaluation skills after singing each song to decide if they are performance-ready. Each class has a chart where we are tracking our progress!

Some classes have also tried “sound stories”, where I read a picture book to the class and students are assigned specific words When the student hears the word in the story, he or she plays the chosen instrument to demonstrate the word. We’ve had great fun with Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema and Max Found Two Sticks by Brian Pinkney.

I would like to thank you all for sharing your wonderful students with me this year! It has been a great privilege to watch their creativity, self-awareness and musical expression grow throughout the year. I look forward to continuing music class with all of your students next year and hope that you have a wonderful summer! Make some time to dance and sing while you are enjoying your time together this summer!

Mrs. Maldonado

For the past month, in the art room, students have been exploring COLOR! We have learned all about the PRIMARY colors, and that they are a very special color family; the only colors we can’t make, but when we mix them, they are MAGICAL and make every other color of the rainbow.

The students were also challenged when I told them we weren’t going to be using paintbrushes, but were going to paint with our FINGERS! We thought that was so fun, but the challenging part was trying to keep our paint clean. When we realized we had 10 fingers to use, we were able to mix and create beautiful colors for our very own rainbow paintings!

To finish our paintings, we added clouds with fluffy quilting stuffing and completed our paintings with gorgeous colorful sky backgrounds. We can’t wait to bring them home to show you!

Miss Pinto and Miss Fausette

During the month of May, we teach a gymnastics unit.

Listed below are some of the activities performed.

Tumbling and Acrobatic Movements

Forward rolls

Straddle rolls

Log rolls

Backward rolls

Balance Beam Movements

Walking forward and backwards

Gliding

Balances ( v-seat, airplane and flamingo)

Dismounts off beam ( tuck, straddle and twist)

Vaulting

Two foot take offs with spring board

Two foot jumps onto vaulting box

Dismounts off vaulting box ( tuck and straddle)

Individual Challenges

Thread the needle

Jump turns

Heel clicks and slaps

Mummy

Rock and roll

Enjoy your summer and we hope your children will participate in the summer fitness challenge. Brochure will be handed out the second week of June.

Take care,

Coach Boscarino and Coach Ruel

Email: rflannery@easthamptonct.org
Website: www.easthamptonps.org
Location: Memorial School, Smith Street, East Hampton, CT, United States
Phone: 8603654020
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