Dear Kindergarten Parents and Families,

I hope everyone had a great weekend. This week sounds like winter will be noted with some chilly days ahead. If your child is missing a school sweater come by and check. I have a couple unidentified sweaters in class.

Last week all our hard work on the land-form project was apparent at our School Fair. We  will continue to learn about land, water, plants, animals and their habitats with this model.  A special thank you to Mr. Briggs for all his time helping us to build this paper mache project.  I also want to thank the parents and grandparents who helped with Primary Centers. I sure do appreciate your help. Please do not forget to bring in your service hour sheet.

Our religion lesson is forgiveness. We will learn another Bible verse based on Matthew 18:35; Jesus said, “Forgive others from you heart.”  A lesson on feelings: learning to make room for others feelings with care and respect.  Value our own feelings and learn how to express them. The story of Zacchaeus will be read and discussed.

Library books need to be returned to check out a new one.        

Happy Birthday to Dominic on Wednesday, March 14 and Kaitlyn on Thursday, March 15.

Friday is a full day of school.

As written in last week’s letter,  we will enjoy a videoconferencing science lesson with California State park interpreters twice this week. Click on PORTS to see their website. Tuesday focus on Monarchs and Wednesday is about Mammals. We will review insects and mammals and write about what we learned in class.

Our language art objectives continue with blending and segmenting phonemes, decoding words with  short vowel /i/ namely,  the ‘it’ and ‘ig’ families.  Letter focus for this week is /Ll/, beginning and ending sounds using word families. Vocabulary connects with weather action words and describing words as we write and illustrate sentences.

Math will review time concepts. Math vocabulary for this chapter is yesterday, today, tomorrow, clock, hour hand.  We will learn the difference when reading analog and digital clocks. Calendar is a large part of this chapter, along with some problem solving.  We will be counting on our own number lines up to 30.

That should take us through the week.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Mrs. Carol Brown