April 1 - The Wednesday's Surprise

Every Wednesday Anna and her brother Sam work with their grandmother to make a surprise for Dad’s birthday. When his birthday finally comes around they cannot wait to share what they have done for him. Mrs. Hoyt share’s the Eve Bunting story.

Do you love parties and surprises?  Think of a time when you had a happy
surprise!

Many long words are in this story.  See if you can figure out how many
syllables are in each of the following words:

Surprise literate help party

Read grandchild birthday granny

Then find the words in the attached word hunt!

Birthday coloring!  Print and color this fun page!

Here is another fun book about a birthday party!  

Be sure to think some good thoughts!

Today’s Chant:

Kind hearts

Kind words

Kind voices

Today is a good day to have a good day

Happy April - April is celebrated as poetry month and Autism Awareness
month.  Tomorrow, April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day. Please
wear blue for our district-wide spirit day!  Send a picture of everyone
in the house who is wearing blue on April 2 and send the photo to
Mrs. Hoyt. The District will be making a special slide show - watch for it!

March 31 - Read Aloud -Bravery Soup

Today our read aloud is brought to us by Mrs. Kim one of Pine Glen’s ELL
teachers. Mrs. Kim shares the story Bravery Soup by  Maryann
Cocca-Leffler.

Poor Carlin was afraid of everything!  Good thing he has a great friend like
Big Bear to support him.  Can you think of a time when you needed to be
brave? Maybe it was when you had to turn off the lights to go to sleep or
when you were going to get a shot at the doctor’s office, or maybe even the
first day of kindergarten!

Draw a picture and write about when you were brave.

Big Bear is a good friend….let’s go on a bear hunt to find another bear!

Dr. Jean Song - Bear Hunt

Bravery Soup - makes us think of Chicken Soup With Rice by Maurice Sendak.

If you are able to download this booklet, you can color your own Chicken
Soup With Rice book and practice the months.  You can also listen along

Chicken Soup With Rice helps us remember the months - Do you remember
how to dance the months?...tomorrow brings us our new month!  Good-bye
March and Hello April…..time to do the macarena!

Rainy cool March day and books about soup - perhaps it is time to cook and
help make lunch - try this soup recipe!  

Be sure to think some good thoughts!

Today’s Chant:

I am loved

I am kind

I am awesome….and I am brave!

How Were You Feeling Today?

Today I challenged friends to answer a question on Seesaw about how they are feeling.  I came across this book about feelings this afternoon.  Like all of you, sometimes I feel happy and sad or embarrassed and worried.  All of our feelings are okay.

Parents, feel free to open this book and invite your child to read it with you!

JIJi Misses You

We are closing in on 80% as a class!  Be sure to log in and visit with JiJi and try those ST Math challenges.  You can do it Room 103!

While We Are Away

Hello Friends,

Keep those photos and shares coming!  See what Encheng sent in today!  Check the tab a the top!

A Message About Choice Board Links

Parents,

The templates are shared as View Only documents so that everyone isn't trying to write on the same document; requesting access is not a solution as it will create the same issue. 

Here are some solutions for how to manage this- 

Print out the template, write on it, take a picture and post it to see saw or email it to the teacher. 

If you have Google docs, make a copy of it, type right on it, and post it to see saw or email it to the teacher. 

Recreate the template on white paper, fill that out, take a picture and post it to see saw or email it to the teacher. 

Thanks,

Renee Sacco

Chick Update

Tuesday and Wednesday will be the last day for the live stream. Most of the hens have found homes and there are currently only 4 chicks left in the brooder. They are changing daily. 

https://video.ibm.com/channel/burlington-science-center

Want To Hangout?

Lots of information was included in the email sent out yesterday. We would like to draw
your attention to the opportunity to have a video meeting this week!

 Keeping in touch and connected is our top priority - that is true for both our students
and our families.  We would like to offer an opportunity to try a Google Hangouts Meet
for our students which will be small meetings with only 4 students to start. 

Here is the information on scheduling
Here is a link to the sign up sheet
    Sign-Up to Google Hangouts Meet with Mrs. Hoyt  (I sure hope I created this Sign-Up correctly!)

And

Here are some guidelines to help us experience it together!

No Stress - We've Got This

Lots of information shared with families about remote learning.  Lots of
questions and worries? We are in this together!

Our number 1 priority is the physical and emotional well-being of our
students and families. 

Adults are trying to do it all - work from home, child-care, self care.  School
Administrators and teachers are also puzzling over doing it all.

Take care of you and take care of your children.  Emotional and physical well
being first! Do what you can.

We are supporting and cheering from home!  Learning new things like Seesaw
may be a challenge.  Having trouble uploading student work, no worries, email
material directly to you teachers.  

Visit the Child Mind Institute for support and resources including information
on self-care, anxiety, behavior management, siblings, mindfulness and more!

Contact us for help with anything - not only academic work -  We are eager to
be involved!

Kindergarten Teacher Contacts:

Karen Hoyt- khoyt@bpsk12.org

Melissa Parnell- parnell@bpsk12.org

Ashley Petelle - apetelle@bpsk12.org 

ELL - Karen Kim - kkim@bpsk12.org 

Special Education - Noreen Groom  - groom@bpsk12.org 

Guidance - Alyssa Kendall -akendall@bpsk12.org 

School Psychologist - Madeline Perry - mperry@bpsk12.org 

Speech and Language - Paige Burke -pburke@bpsk12.org

Physical Therapy - Kim Russell - krussell@bpsk12.org 

Reading Specialist - Deidre de Salvador - salvador@bpsk12.org 

Occupational Therapist - Amy Haroutunian - aharoutunian@bpsk12.org

Teacher Librarian - Rachel Small - rsmall@bpsk12.org

We Are Strong and Resilient - We got this!

#pineglenrocks

#pineglenreads

March 30 - Read Aloud- We Are Growing

Today’s read out loud is brought to us by Mr. Musselman

from the Burlington Science Center. Mr. Musselman shares

the story We Are Growing by Laurie Keller. Walt and his

friends are growing up fast! Everyone is the something-est.

What about Walt? Walt discovers something special of his

own with a big surprise at the end!!

Writing

Draw a picture about what this book makes you think of. 

Maybe you can use speech bubbles like Mo Willems does

to write about your illustration!

Or you could write about your favorite part of the book 

Or you could write about what happened to Walt at the

end of the story.

Music

Check out this video for the Growing Up Song.

Movement

Try watching and doing these GoNoodle activities.

Grow Gratitude

Flex (one of our class favorites)

Math

You could try this jumping activity- Have a distance jumping

contest with your family by having a starting point and then

using an object or toy to mark how far each person jumped.

Who jumped the farthest? Does the tallest person in your

house jump the furthest? How can you measure the distance

of the jumps?

Keep Breathing

Sitting by my fireplace on a Sunday morning and thinking that we each need to find ways to keep our levels of stress in check.  These strategies were presented by Youth Issues but they are great ideas for the adults and the kids.  Try it out....

Delighted To Deliver

This morning was so AWESOME! It was so nice to be able to talk with everyone (from a safe distance). I will be happy for the rest of the day thanks to these interactions! Thank you families.  Thanks for sharing photos.........Keep them coming!  We love seeing and sharing how each other is......show us what you are doing with the items you received!

I LOVE & MISS you ALL. ❤

Trey and big sister, Jordan shared how they explored the various densities of liquids!

Benjamin and Lena were excited to have a visitor and talked about some of the creative fun they have had making archery toys!

Rohas was eager to share what he created with Mrs. Kerr's challenge!

Brittany was so excited to get her writing materials she got to work right away!

Reyan was all smiles as he explored the treasures he had!

Chick Update

Ms. P. just sent out this video for you to watch. Remember to observe the chicks closely with your eyes! What has happened to the chicks? Tell me about what you notice.

We Love You Kindergartners

A Message From Mrs. Kerr

Mrs. Kerr misses you all and has sent this special message!

Did you check your mailbox?  Mrs. Kerr sent a special letter to each of you.......see Encheng's project!  Share what you did with the special challenge!

Check the tap at the top for additional photos shared!

Signs Of Spring

Mrs. Hoyt has been taking a walk each day.  Today she met up with Mrs. Parnell (at a safe distance) and hiked the Saw Mill Conservation Area! 

We could hear, see, touch and smell spring!   Have you found any signs of spring?

Sharing Some Photos From The Parade

Here are some photos from today!  Thanks for sharing!

Additional photos can be found at Wicked Local.