Fox 6 Meteorologist Justin Zollitsch
did a weather presentation for "W" week!
(and yes, he is my brother...don't we look so much alike?) 
Fox 6 Meteorologist and St. Mary's K4 Meteorologist are all smiles for the camera!
We heard Oh, Say Can You Say, What is the Weather Today?
and learned some cool big words for weather (like cumulonimbus clouds and anemometer!) 
Fun Fact: Justin met Meteorologist Vince Condella when he was in grade school
and wanted to become one ever since...now he continuing the tradition by meeting with students all over Wisconsin
He usually meets with grades 2nd and up, but we get the special privledges at St. Mary's!
We learned about lightning and safety precautions during a storm
We saw a "classroom" tornado and talked about our tornado drills in school
We really impressed him, because we knew what to do already (we practiced one about a week ago)!
To see a funny video of what NOT to do during a tornado with
Justin Zollitsch , Vince Condella and Brittany Sager
visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i7gWCi1x-c
Keep scrolling down for some more fun pictures of this week
Pictures have been updated...scroll all the way to the bottom to see them all!
Oh, my, oh, my, oh, my! We have 3 weeks of school before we say good bye! We have so much to do, but don't be blue! We'll see you again when summer is through! The next few weeks will be filled with fun ~ K4 is not yet done. We are ready, we heard Mrs. Pawlak say...so K5 get ready...we are on our way!
We have so much to do! Please continue to work on skills listed below throughout the rest of this quarter as it will fly by. A weekly homework packet will come home with your child for the month of May. Packets will come home on a Monday and should be returned on Friday. Students should work on ONE page per day.
Some other important dates coming up:
May 15th - ALL LIBRARY BOOKS ARE DUE BY TODAY!
May 16th - Last Scholastic Book orders Due before Summer Vacation!
May 17th - Sunset Playhouse is preforming The Three Little Pigs for St. Mary's. We will be visited by a Technology Accreditation team today, as our school is in the process of earning the title of Excellence in Technology!
May 18th - Field Day at SMV for K4 through 8th grades - Bring cold lunch bag (no lunch boxes) and disposable drink if you did not sign up for hot lunch subs
May 23rd - 5:11 $1.00 Jean day! Bring in your dollar and wear your 5:11 t-shirt and jeans 
Supporting the Ronald McDonald House right down the street! We will be collecting all soda pop tabs from each classroom today and see who brought in the most!
May 28th - Memorial Day - No school
May 31st - Cleaning day! Don't forget to volunteer to help out! This is also our first choice for the K4 Beach Day party!
June 1st - Beach Day alternate Rain Day
June 4th - K4 Graduation 9am
A link is found below in the files section if you would like a copy of this in a calendar form!
Hope you have a warm and wonderful week!
Mrs.
Pawlak
June Birthdays
6th - Sebastian
20th - Kaitlyn
There are no May Birthdays
Top Dog of the Week 
About a week before your student's Top Dog week, a poster and a letter will go home explaining ideas for their special week. If you choose to have someone come in for any reason, please contact me at least a couple days ahead of time. Schedules are flexible, but they are based on curriculum expectations and Specials times are not moveable. Thank you in advance for your consideration and help!
September 12-16
Sebastian
September 26-30 Audrey
October 3-7 Tommy
October 17-21
Karalyn
November 14-18
Andrew
December 5-9
Olivia
January 9-13
Camille
January 23-27
Mitchell
February 6-10
Kaitlyn
February 27-March2
Sully
March 19-23
Jacob
May 14-18
Edward
May 21-25
Ava
We decorated our wings with the help of 4th and 2nd grades this week...
Our "Fly Up" ceremony will be here before you know it!
General Reminders:
Monday: We have Spanish and Gym today! Please send gym shoes today.
Tuesday: We have Computers and Music! ALL LIBRARY BOOKS ARE DUE TO THE LIBRARY TODAY!
Wednesday: We have Gym today!
Thursday: We will meet with our buddies today!
Friday: We will go to 8am mass. We have Library and Music today! We will continue to go to library till the end of the year, but we will not be checking books out after the 15th.
Junior Kindergarten Curriculum
In Junior Kindergarten, we use thematic units to help students learn. This means that academics such as Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies are incorporated into all activities that we do. They will not be taught in isolation unless we are working on something very specific that deems it neccessary to do so. Throughout the year we will revist all Exit Expectations as research shows students at this age need to learn things through repetition. Each week I will share what general things we will be working on in class in this section. If you have any questions please let me know. Also, if you click on the flashcard link at the top, you will find all the letter movements that we will be learning as we go through the year.
Dr. Pickart, aka, Mrs. Winkler and Sarah and Sofia presented the letter "Ww"!
May Themes: Spring, Insects
Phonemic Awarenss: Xx, Yy; high frequency word: Review from the year
Language Arts, Science, Social Studies: Introduce letters Xx and Yy, recognize it's sounds, proper formation of the upper and lowercase letters, taking turns, helping, first name and last name recognition, weather conditions, changing seasons, insects and understanding why they are apart of the life cycle, metamorphasis.
Last Scholastic book orders due this week!
We earn free books every order that is placed on-line
This past month we earned 3 new books for our classroom!
The next book orders will be due:
May 16
Scholastic Book Clubs Ordering Information
www.scholastic.com/bookclubs
Class Activation Code:
GJX2P
Dear Parent,
Don't forget to keep reading with your child this summer! Reading every day to your child helps them gain knowledge, creativitiy, imagination and more! It is very important to have them hear you model proper reading fluency, tonating and word pointing. Consider this month's Scholastic Book Clubs for some great new titles to read over the summer.
Once you've decided which books to purchase, please return the form and payment to me, or give online ordering a try. It saves time, offers more book choices, and earns extra rewards for the classroom.
To start ordering online, follow these simple steps:
- Register at Scholastic Book Clubs' secure Web site (www.scholastic.com/bookclubs), and create your own User Name and Password.
- Enter the onetime Class Activation Code above to link you to our classroom.
- Choose the books that you would like to order.
- Pay for your selections using your credit card.
- Submit your order to me online.
We read with our 4th grade buddies on the school library's Nooks!
Math: Introduction to Subtraction (1-5)
Continued work on addition (1-5), the calendar (days, months, counting to 30 & 100), begin working with #10 and skip counting by 10's, 100 charting, more, less, most, least, ABA patterns, finishing up on our number books to 10!
Religion: Creation Story (Genesis) 
God created the Heaven and Earth
God created all the plants and animals
God said to take care of the Earth and its creatures - how can K4 help?
- wwjd means What would Jesus do?
We have begun working with our 4th grade buddies to make our very own Creation story books! Look for them at the end of May!
IMPORTANT REMINDER!!!!!!
**K4 will attend mass every Friday morning for the rest of the year!
We will leave our classroom between 7:50 and 7:55
so that we are seated in church ready to go for the 8:00 am mass.
Please make sure your child is to school no later than 7:45!!
If you have an unforeseen problem, and you are running late, please note that the office is locked during mass.
You will need to bring your child directly to church. We will sit with the 4th grade buddies.
P
arents are always welcome to sit with us in church!
Specials
Don't forget to visit each "specials" teacher's classpage and sign up for the NOTIFY ME button to get weekly updates from those teachers as well! 
Mrs. Benson: Computers and Library:
In computer class we have used the following websites:
www.literacycenter.net
www.kiddonet.com (Kiddonet Jr.)
www.pbskids.com (several of the characters)
www.starfall.com
KidPix software
All of these activities practice basic academic skills and also give the children practice on using a mouse and navigating a website.
Library is on Fridays. Please make sure books are back by Friday morning so your child may take home a new book. 
www.worldbookonline.com may be used at home. St. Mary's has a subscription for everyone to use!
Both the user name and password is
smveg
Peek in at Mrs. Benson's web page to find cool things for students in the Library and computers! (It's the same as this web page, just click on Mrs. Benson's name).
www.yourclasspage.com
then 2627827057
The Concert and Planting Day!
Sue Daniels visited us this week, from the Elm Grove Library!
(Check box to include this section when classpage is printed:)
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