Dear Kindergarten families,
It was nice to see your children all here today and ready to do their best work! Hope all enjoyed your Easter time together. I am seeing lots of extra reading. Reading logs can be turned in each day – your children are earning tickets for 25 minutes of nightly reading. The drawing for the raffle ends this Friday.
Upcoming event: “Speak Out! It’s Your Earth!” We are traveling to Ralph’s Grocery Store on April 18 for our first off campus field trip. We will learn how to care for our Earth and about healthy food choices. Permission slips are coming home tomorrow. Please fill out, sign permission slip, and add $15.00 to your child’s beautifully decorated envelope and return by this Friday. We must have the permission slips on file for your child to attend.
On April 26 we will celebrate Jeweliana’s birthday!
During these warmer days, please send in a water bottle for your children. Note: extra large water bottles are hard for your children to manage- please choose a size that is less than a liter.
This week religion focus is to learn to have a greater love for God and share his love with others. Our chapter this week is all about forgiveness.
Poems are all in! Your children are practicing daily and doing well. Continue to practice at home – if you have a prop to go with their poem, please bring it in. Reading Workshop finds us working to segment, blend, use our sight words as we use our ‘powers’ to read. Writing Workshop will continue with informational writing. We are working on short vowels, /a/, /i/, and /e/ in simple words as we read. Sight word spelling test is on list four this week. Words to study are “up, at, see, he, do”.
We are reviewing counting money and making exchanges for pennies and nickels. Fun with measuring objects and places in our room with standard units (rulers and measuring tape). And a daily review of the number grid to help with finding numbers by the rows and columns using tens and ones. click here for 110 grid to practice at home.
Science finds us learning about our five senses and Social Studies will begin a unit on our National Symbols.
Friday is a full day of school!
Enjoy your week!
Mrs. Brown
