Longfellow Family Garden Club

You can join the Longfellow Family Garden Club. If you want to participate you can either RSVP for the May 12th meeting at 6:00 PM in the auditorium or you can email Jill Niewoehner at pto@newwanderer.com.

The Longfellow Family Garden Club is a group comprised of Longfellow families who believe in good food, and want to learn to grow their own. They plant and maintain the vegetable beds on the south side of the building (across from the new greenhouse donated by the Girl Scouts). Families in the club sign up to maintain the garden for a week or two over the summer. There are optional evening meetings in the summer to learn about taking care of the garden from each other. Families learn about soil, weeding, planting, and the best part, HARVESTING! The members of the garden club share in the bounty, and the leftover produce is donated.

A to Z Countdown

Can you believe it?!  There are only 26 school days left!  Thus begins our A to Z Countdown.  These activities are encouraged, though not required.  The ones in bold include an item you might bring from home.

5/5 A-Animal Day: We’re headed to Lincoln Park Zoo!  Learn a new fact about an animal there so you can write about it when we come back.  We’ll share all the things we learned!

5/6 B-Baby Day: Bring in a picture of yourself when you were a baby.

5/7 C - Crown Day: We’ll crown the kings and queens of kindergarten!

5/8 D- Dancing Day: We’ll dance today during recess!

5/9 E- Equipment Day: Bring your favorite playground toys: soft balls, jump ropes, Frisbees, and Wiffle bats.

5/12 F- Favorite Book Day: Bring in your favorite book to share/read during stations.

5/13 G- Game Day: Bring in your favorite game to play. (No electronics)

5/14  H- Horticulture Day: Today we will walk to the Oak Park Conservatory.

5/15 I- Inside Out Day: Wear something inside out!

5/16 J- Jersey Day: Wear your favorite team jersey for Sports Day and Olympic Day.  It might be a professional team, a school team, or your team!

5/19 K- Kindness Day: Share some extra kindness today.

5/20 L- Lollipop Day: What’s your favorite flavor?  We’ll graph them.   I’ll provide the lollipops.

5/21 M- Music Day: We’ll listen to a variety of different music today.

5/22 N- Nickel Day: Bring a nickel to school. We’ll sort and graph them by year.

5/23 O - On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!  We will have races at recess.

5/27  P- Puzzle Day: We’ll do puzzles today…crossword, search & finds, word searches, jigsaws and more!

5/28 Q- Quiz Your Teacher Day: See if you can “stump” Ms. Vietzen with a hard question.

5/29 R- Read-a-thon Day: Tally how many books you read today.

5/30 S- Sidewalk Chalk Day: Today we will go outside and draw with sidewalk chalk.

6/2 T – Tying Shoes Day: If you have them, wear shoes with laces and we’ll practice tying.  If you already know, you can help a friend!

6/3 U- Unforgettable Day: Share your favorite experience in kindergarten. What will you miss next year?

6/4 V- Video Day: Today we will watch a video.

6/5 W- Wear Longfellow Gear: Wear Longfellow clothes today 

6/6 X- eXtra Fun Hat Day: Wear your favorite hat for Hat Day at school.

6/9 Y- Year End Cleaning: We’ll clean our tables, room, and cubbies!

6/10 Z- Zip and Zoom: Today is our last day of school so we’ll celebrate by zipping and zooming around Longfellow Park.  Have a great summer!