April 1 - Read Aloud - 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 shares Eve Bunting's story,

The Wednesday Surprise.

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! Take a picture of everyone in the house who
is wearing blue on April 2nd and send the photo to Mrs. Parnell.
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!

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. Parnell  (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

I'm 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....

Chick Update from Ms. P.

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.

Deliveries and Family Check Ins

This morning was so AWESOME! I was able to see 10 of my 15 students! It was so nice to be able to talk with everyone from a safe socially distant amount of space. I will be happy for the rest of the day thanks to these interactions! Thank you families.
I LOVE & MISS you ALL. ❤

Sean's mom took a picture of Sean and me! 
Thanks for the memory.

We Love You Kindergartners

Signs Of Spring

Mrs. Parnell has been taking a walk each day.  

Today she met up with Mrs. Hoyt (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?

More FaceTime Check-Ins

I am so excited to have been able to FaceTime all 15 of the Kindergarten students in Room 101. This week I FaceTimed with Rose, CJ, Chase and Gracyn. Everyone is doing a great job doing school work from home along, spending lots of time with family and getting outside to play! I enjoyed these check ins and I will offer them again soon! ❤

March 27th- Read Aloud- Dory Story

Today Mr. Lyons share with us the story Dory Story

by Jerry Pallotta. In this book Danny encounters one

sea creature after another and learns about the ocean

food chain in the process. Just when you think you

know what's going to happen next, the story takes

an unexpected twist.

You can move to Baby Shark on GoNoodle.

Check out Annie and Moby on Brain Pop Jr. to

watch a video on the food chain.

Try to sketch and label the food chain illustrated in

the story. You can always re-watch the video! If you

do create a food chain remember to take a picture

and email it to your teacher!

Can you create an addition and a subtraction word

problem with animals from the story? You can watch

Jerry Pollatta read Dory Story and you can stop the

video to work on your math equations! (Mr. Pollatta

uses some sound effects during his reading!)

Here are my examples of my addition and 
subtraction number stories.