Dear Kindergarten Families,

We had a great time on our field trip last Thursday! I hope you all heard about healthy foods, harvesting, growing, playing games, and planting seeds. The Hansen Agricultural research center did an amazing job teaching us!

This week is an important on as we focus on the Easter Story with our lessons in school.

Our religion lessons center around Holy Week with reading from the Children’s Bible and our religion text. On Wednesday the Living Stations at 2:00. Please join us if your schedule allows.

ELA- finishing up theme 7 – starting a bit in theme 8 which begins with a review of consonants /t/,/k/, and /n/. New vowel focus short /o/ and reviewing /a/ and /i/ as we blend and segments cvc words. Our reading strategies: fantasy/realism; comprehension skills: story components- characters, setting, problem and solution. Syllables continue this week with our spelling pictures. Persuasive writing skills will include learning how to make making signs, lists, letters or song to help people understand we want to make the world better.

EM- counting with pennies, counting steps as a measure, and using different tools to measure in units. Working with the 110 grid for missing numbers and a mystery picture for spring.

Science- water – experimenting with objects that sink and float. Changing seasons how this affects weather and animals.

Social studies – we did not get to mapping last week- this week a simple map of a  neighborhood in the community.

Healthy foods thinking back on our field trip to the farm.

Thursday is a noon dismissal –

Wishing all families a blessed Easter Sunday!

Mrs. Carol Brown