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11/9
Happy November! This has been a short but busy week.  In math, we are beginning a new investigations unit on measurement.  Students will compare the lengths of items in the class and compare lengths of names.  We continue to talk about counting strategies and have had fun counting items in inventory bags. 
Our fluency poem this week is, Hey Diddle Diddle. We will count the number of words in each line and we will count “beats in words”.  Our letters for this week are L and U.  Please look for these in your nightly reading. 
In writing we are working on using our good sounds to label our illustration.  I am very excited about how this group is really using their sounds to help them to spell. 
We are finishing up our science unit on senses with a little tasting.  We have also been enjoying learning about spiders.  We have listed our learning on a SPIDERS  can, have, and are chart.  Our next science unit will be on seasonal changes. 
In social studies, will be talking about past and present.  We will compare clothing, transportation, tools and toys. 
Last week a social studies project for a student time line came home.  If you need an extra copy of this project, please let me know. 
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 This week we say good-bye to Colt and his family. They are moving to a new house and he will begin a new school.   Colt will be missed!
Mystery bags- This week our letters are L and U.  (students can also bring in items that go with letters from previous weeks-r, f, e, d, m, n, p and b.)

I have enjoyed meeting with all of you during conferences. I feel so very thankful to be able to work with you and your child. 


THANK YOU! To all of our family members that served or are currently serving in the armed forces. 




10/17

This week in math we will work on connecting number names, numerals and quantities.  Students will work on making equivalent sets and developing and analyzing visual images for quantities up to 10.  Lessons for this week will introduce Build it, review roll and record and have the students counting inventory bags. We will add 7 and 8 to our math map book and use the computers to do ST Math.  Please encourage your child to practice their good counting strategies at home. 

In literacy, we will take a look at the letters R and N.  We will practice writing the letters and hunt for them in our letter book.  Our fluency poem in class, is Two Little Apples.  Ask your penguin to say it to you! Our good –bye rhyme is, “wave good-bye, small fry”.  We are working on identifying rhyme and tracking print.  I am sending home several paper books that we have worked on so far.  Please feel free to keep these in a place where your child can reread these as often as he/she would like.  (They can be used in place of the poem for nightly reading.)
This week in science we will use our senses to study the world around us.  We will start with our sense of sight and move on to hearing, smell, touch
and taste.  We will also talk about fall and begin recording fall observations.
On Monday, Mrs. Breaud will help us make apple sauce and challenged us to  see if we can get 10 apples (made from playdough) to stand one on top of the other. Ask your penguin how the apple sauce was! 
 





2/27
Happy Last day of February!

This week in math we will be looking at numbers in the teens and using groups of ten to count large numbers of items.  Please encourage your penguin to count things at home! 
In literacy we are working on decoding words.  We use our “lips the fish” to help us get our mouth ready and then move on to the next letter.  We use sound boxes and tap and sweep as strategies to help us with words.  We will also share many Dr. Seuss books and celebrate books we enjoy by having parent readers come to our classroom.
This week in writing we will be writing about a friend.  Ask your Penguin which friend they are thinking of writing about. 
We have enjoyed getting to know more about our first President.  We have learned that he went to a one-room school.  He started at age 7 and his favorite thing to do was math. He loved to ride his horse.  He was a general.  He lived at Mount Vernon.  
 This week we will begin a new science unit on weather.  Key vocabulary for this unit is: sky, sunny, partly cloudy, cloudy, precipitation, dry,

rain, snow, hail, sleet, temperature, hot, warm, cool, cold, observe, weather, snowy, windy, chart, graph and freezing. 
We already record our  weather each day. We will begin recording temperature. We will look for patterns that we see in the weather. 
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. 


12/12
This is a busy week.  We continue with our reading of several versions of the Gingerbread man. On Monday we did  a STEM project.   Students designed and built a boat out of aluminum foil that could float and hold a small Gingerbread man (or girl).  We had several successful boat builders! I loved to see the excitement on the Penguin’s faces when they were successful, and the determination to try again if the boat sank.  

In math we are working on story problems and ways to make numbers.  Students will build with six tiles and measure around the room with cubes and chips.  We introduced the game of “double” compare.  It is just like compare but now the students are turning over 2 cards and adding the cards together to get the total.  This game can be played with any cards.  You might want to play over the winter break!

In reading we are working on building words.  We will start with short “a” word family words.    Students will build, sort and spell these words during the week.  You an also look for these in your nightly reading.
 
11/22

 This is a very short week! We will finish up any letter work that we didn’t get done last week but wait to start new letters next week.  (S, A, I, and T)

In math we have been measuring using non-standard units of measurement (popsicle sticks and cubes) to measure tape lines.  We are also practicing reading and writing numbers in the teens. These tend to be tricky for many kindergarteners. 

In social studies we took a close look at Thanksgiving.  We read several books and watched a couple of videos that helped us answer some of the questions we were wondering about Thanksgiving.  We learned the “First Thanksgiving” lasted 3 days. We learned that they might have eaten eel, corn, squash, wild birds, deer and fish, and that it is because of a woman named Sarah (and Abe Lincoln) that still we celebrate Thanksgiving.  (check out the link on our class blog!)
We will have a friendship snack in the afternoon and do the Turkey Tango!
I am so very thankful to have the opportunity to work with such a great group of students!  I hope you have a safe and happy Thanksgiving! 
 




 September 12

  Thank you for helping your child complete the “All About Me” posters.  If you have not  had the chance to get it done, please don’t panic. We will begin sharing them this week, but will continue sharing them over the next couple of weeks.
In math we are creating a Math Map book.  We are practicing writing numbers and developing counting strategies.  Our math lessons are set up so that students can explore, investigate, estimate and make predictions, count, build and share ideas.  We are working on looking comparing and contrasting items. 
This week in literacy we have been working on building fluency with our letters (capitals and lower case) poems, and book box stories.  We have been sharing stories and this week students will be drawing and writing about things they like to do. 
Our unit in Social Studies has us learning about community and the American flag.  Key vocabulary for this unit is: community, live, work, play, stars, stripes, symbol and national.  We will create a community chain and learn facts about the flag. 



May
What a great job the penguins did during the music and art performance!  I am so proud of them. 

This week we will begin the end of the years PALs assessment.  I will try to get this done during literacy groups so that it won’t change our schedule too much. 

This week we will begin a social studies unit on maps.  Students will learn that a map is a drawing of a place and shows where things are located.  Students will use simple maps and locate land and water features.  Key vocabulary for this unit is: left, right, behind, in front, near, far, above, below, north, south, east, west and globe.

In math we will look at different kinds of clocks and practice telling time to the hour.  We will also begin a new unit on surveys and data collection.  While we collect data every day during our morning meeting, this unit will give students the opportunity to create their own survey question and collect and share the data. 

In language arts we are working on reading non-fiction materials.  We will look at the text features of a non-fiction book and talk about strategies good readers use when reading non-fiction. We will also work on non-fiction stories. Please continue to read to and with your Penguin each night!
 








February

This week in literacy we will be talking about stretching out a word slowly to hear each sound and blending it back together again.  When a word has 2 sounds we put out a hand for each sound and then clap to blend it.  (me would be- m(right hand out) e(left hand out) Clap and say me).  If the word has three sounds we will start at the shoulder and say the first sound, elbow would be second sound and hand would be for the third sound.  Then we would make a sweeping motion to blend the sounds.  (Cat – C at the shoulder, a at the elbow, and t at the hand, sweep down saying cat.) These hand motions help children to isolate the sounds and then blend them back.  We will also use Simon Says as a way to blend sounds.  Our fluency poem this week is 100 Little Valentines. It helps us practice counting by 10’s and focus on the sight word little.  This week we are using the book, Hooway for Wadney Wat as our text to look at characters and retelling. 
In math we are working on building numbers.  We are using tiles to make numbers in a lot of different arrangements.  We discuss what was made and any groups we see.  We also look at how it might be the same and/or different from another arrangement.  This composing and decomposing of numbers is a great way to explore number combinations.  We are also working on reading  and writing numbers from 20-100. 
We celebrated the 100th day and the 101st day of Kindergarten! The projects have been fun to share!
On Friday we will celebrate Valentine’s Day. 
This week we are finishing up our work on Magnets. We will begin a social studies unit on Abraham Lincoln. 
Thank you for all that you do! Have a warm week!





November

This week’s letters are P and J.  Our fluency poem in class is Peas, Porridge Hot.   Students are working on tracking the print and identifying words from the poem. The sight word for this week is can.  We will hunt for it in our p and j books.  We are also cleaning out our book box and bringing home many of the letter books we have worked on in class. These are great to reread and hunt for words and letters in! 
In math we are taking a close look at the numbers in the teens. We continue with our work on patterns.  Most students are quick to identify pattern of movements, colors and shapes. We will be creating different types of patterns and reading them as Mathematicians.  (AB, AAB, ABC, etc.)  We will practice counting patterns with counting by 10’s to 100 and by 5’s to 20.  Please encourage your Penguin to look for patterns at home. 
In Social studies we will begin a unit on past and present.  We have made a list of what we Know about Thanksgiving and will be making a  
list of things we are “Wondering” about Thanksgiving.  I will send you a link to our Wondering page as we complete it.  We will also compare  how families celebrate Thanksgiving in the past and now. 
In science we will look at what animals are doing to get ready for winter.  Key vocabulary for this will be hibernate, migrate, fur, feathers, wild and tame.  We will also be taking a close look at the life cycle of a pumpkin. 


October 

This week we will take a close look at the letters U and C.  We will practice writing the letters, hunt for them and sort pictures of things that start with these letters.  I have finished the PALs assessment and will share the results with you during conferences.
In math, we continue to compare numbers. We are working on counting, recognizing and writing numbers to 30.  We will begin looking at coins.  It is helpful if students have real coins to do this work. If possible, could you please send in a collection of coins (1 quarter, 2 dimes, 3 nickels, and 10 pennies) in a plastic baggie with your child’s name on it.  It will be returned later in the year!
In science we will explore our sense of smell and hearing.  We will  experiment with items that sink and float.  This is an extension of our wondering question – “Do apples sink or float”.  Ask your penguin what our results were.
This week our Global Read aloud for our author study of Amy Krouse Rosenthal is Duck! Rabbit! 
    “Thank you”,  to everyone that came along with us on our field trip.  It was a beautiful day and everyone had a good time.  We learned that it takes 32 apples to make a container of apple cider (a question we were wondering about) and that there are 16 different kinds of apples at that orchard.   
Needed:  clean mismatched socks make great erasers for  our dry erase boards.  If you have any you would be willing to get rid of we will take them!

September 28
While this is a short week, it is filled with a lot of activities. In literacy we will add N and M sound cards to our literacy practice. Students will have the opportunity to hunt, sort and write n’s and m’s. We will add an apple poem to our fluency binder and begin our PALs  (Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening) testing.
In math we will play roll and record , build it and count items in our inventory bags.  We are taking a close look at shapes and adding them to our describing poster. We will take a close look at the penny and add counting pennies to our calendar routine.
Last week we learned that some communities created totem poles to represent their community.  We decided to create a totem pole for our learning community. Each student designed a side of the totem pole to show something about our class.  We will be putting it together and writing our story to go with it.
In science we talked about what we “Know” about scientists.  We took a look at some scientists and talked about the jobs they do.  Students drew scientists.  This week, as scientists we will use our sense of sight, to really take a close look at things around us. 



  We continue to enjoy our writing time.  We have moved from “telling” stories to using pictures to tell the story.  We are taking a close look at illustrations in the books we read.  When reading you’re your Penguin at night please take a few minutes to talk about the illustrations. (What do you notice the illustrator did to help tell the story? ) 

September 21
This week we will work on the sounds of letters T and B.  Students will have opportunities to hunt for these letters in their book box books.  We will practice writing these using good handwriting techniques.  We will add to our stories of things we love and continue to get to know our classmates as we share more “All About Me” posters. 
In math we continue developing strategies for accurately counting quantities, connecting number words to numerals, and creating equivalent sets.  The Penguins will play roll and record, count objects in our counting jar and take a close look at the numbers 8 and 9.
We enjoyed learning about our community and flag. We made a red, white and blue chain to show how we are all connected and we will look at other symbols people use to show community. 

Later in the week we will begin a new unit in science about Senses.  During this unit students will investigate and understand that humans have senses that allow them to seek, find, take in, and react  (respond) to information in order to learn about their surroundings. (Science SOL K.2)   Key vocabulary for this unit is; sight, dull, bright, smell, strong, faint, hearing, loud, soft, high, low, taste, tongue, sweet, sour, bitter, salty, touch, rough, smooth, hard, soft, cold, and hot.  

This week we will begin “share” during snack time.  The share will be items in our “Letter Bags”.  Information about the Letter Bags is coming home today.  
 

August 
We are off to a great start!  The Penguins have been getting to know one another and are picking up our routine quickly!
  This is the red “Daily Communication” folder.  This folder will be sent home each day with your child.  Please be sure to check it, and send it back with them each day. 
  Last week we spent time getting to know one another and exploring some of the materials we are going to use this year.  We shared our hopes and created a class promise. 
   This week we will review colors and sort objects and pictures.  Learning to compare and contrast is an important skill that students will use in math, science and word study.  The colors for this week are red, orange, yellow, green, and blue.  If possible please have your child wear something with that color. 
    Students will be bringing home an “All About Me” poster.  Please help your child fill it out, color, and decorate it. Be as creative as you would like.  We will share these as we review letters in the upcoming weeks.  It would be great if I could get them back by September 1st.  



April 29
 This week is very busy.  The PTO is sponsoring the Chinese Acrobat assembly on Wednesday, up and coming kindergarteners come in on Thursday morning and Friday is our Health fair. 
This week our science unit centers on plants.  We have set up a classroom experiment to see what needs are needed most for seeds to sprout. (air, soil, water, or sunlight) We will share the results as we record them.  We will also learn about the parts of a plant and the important jobs that they do.  All students have planted a sunflower seed and will record their observations in the writing journal.
In math we return to looking at different ways to build numbers.  We will also focus on place value as we look at larger numbers.  We will also work on telling time to the hour and on counting coins! Whew!
  This week our fluency poem is Little Boy Blue.  Our sight word is: have.  Literacy groups are reading books about plants.  Read aloud books this week will include Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens and The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. 
    We will begin a non-fiction writing
project on animals, in the next week. We will read several non-fiction books and work on writing non-fiction stories about animals.  Students will then create a diorama for a clay animal that they will make.  Please start saving any shoe boxes that you might have at home for us! 

 I am sending home one more book order. This will be the last one for the year.  If you are interested you can place your order online  with our class code of  HK6H3 or send order form and payment to Scholastic into class by May 8th. 


April 15 
Happy Wednesday! It is so good to see the Penguins.  I can tell everyone had a nice break.  I can hardly believe we have just 41 more school days left!  This week we are finishing up 3rd quarter assessments. Report cards will go home on Monday.  
Our fluency poem this week is Five Little Monkey’s Jumping On the Bed.  We use this to count syllables (beats) find rhyme, and this week we will discuss quotation marks. Literacy groups have been working on strategies to help with reading.  We use our Eagle Eye, Get our lips ready, and stretch the sounds out slowly.  Some groups are also looking for “chunks” in larger words.  Please encourage your penguin to use these strategies at home. In an attempt to better support reading at home, I am sending home books for Penguins to read.  These came home on Monday in a plastic bag.  Some students will benefit from reading the book/books more than once.  Most of the time the story will be one that we have read already in our guided reading group and the student should be familiar with it.  If however they need extra support a good routine is to

Monday: Echo read- you read the page, child reads the page.
Tuesday- Choral read- read story together.  Encourage student to track as he/she reads.
Wednesday- You read a page the child reads a page.
Thursday- Child reads the whole book to you.
Friday- return book in baggie
This week our sight word is from. You can hunt for this in your nightly reading. 
If you prefer to still use the poems please do!
We have changed our share topic. In honor of National Poetry Month, I am asking students to share (recite) favorite family poems.  These can be ones that came home as homework over the past (30!) weeks of school or ones that you have enjoyed through reading together.

You may have heard that a penguin moved away.  Paola and her family have moved into a new house. We will miss her, and wish her exciting rest of the year!
March 11-I hope you are enjoying this warmer weather.  This week our fluency poem in class is On Top of Spaghetti.  We practice first by reading the pictures. We then listen for rhyme in the poem and count syllables for words.  Ask you penguin to count the syllables (beats) in spaghetti, cheese, lost, or meatball.  Our word study lessons have focused on building words in the “at”  or “ed” word families.  We are introducing the digraph /sh/.  We continue to talk about making connections to the books we read and visualizing parts of the story.  Our decoding strategies include looking at pictures, getting your lips ready, stretching out the sounds and looking for known chunks.  We practice these skills daily. 

   In math we have been using the game “Spill the Chips” and “Tile Building” to explore ways to make numbers.  This week students will be introduced to the rekenrek.   It is a great tool for showing different ways to make numbers.  We will also review shapes and take a look at 3-Dimensional solids. 
   




We will write about GeorgeWashington and begin a new unit in
science on matter. Key concepts for this unit include color, shapes and forms of objects. 

It also includes size and weights and relative positions of objects.
Key vocabulary includes: solid, liquid, gas, float, sink, cycle, and  flow.
This will be the unit that we will demonstrate during the Inquiry fair.

Have a good week!

February- Happy February!  We learned that the groundhog saw his shadow.  It looks like 6 more weeks of winter! This week we will celebrate the 100th day of school.  We will make a 100 inch snake, build structures with 100 cups and make a 100th day snack! The 100th day projects that have been coming in have been great! Thank you for all of the support you have given to these at home. 
This week we continue with our comprehension strategy of visualizing..  We will use Hooway for Wadney Wat by Helen Lester for our whole group discussion and practice of mental pictures. 
This goes along nicely as we talk about math stories. Students are modeling the action of combining and separating situations.  (Sometimes the wind blows leaves,  the sun melts snowmen, or Mrs. Z eats French fries)
I placed the directions for double compare in the red folder.  This game is good for comparing 2 quantities, adding 2 numbers, and developing counting strategies.  There is also an I-spy pizza coming home. There are 100 toppings! In science we continue to explore shadows.  This week students will do a simple experiment to see if everything has a shadow.  



January-  It is so hard to believe that January has already come to an end!  This week we are finishing up or mini unit on penguins and we will begin a unit on groundhogs and shadows. We made a list of things we know about shadows and then made a list of things we are wondering.   In literacy we will read a non-fiction book about Groundhog day and make a flip book of groundhog facts. We will read Go To Sleep Groundhog and Wake Up Groundhog.  We will begin collecting and recording data on shadows. Hopefully this will help to answer some of our wondering questions.  This week students reviewed their writing projects and made a writing goal. In math we learned two new games.  One More, One Fewer had us building numbers on ten frames and then figuring out what would be one more or one fewer.  Double Compare was a new version of an old favorite.  I am sending home the directions and cards you can cut and use to play at home. 

Next week we will reach our 100th day of school.  Information about a 100th day project went home last week.  I am copying it the back of this newsletter.     
February is usually the perfect storm for kindergarten with Groundhog day, 100th day and Valentine’s Day all coming in the first 2 weeks!  We will be having a Valentine celebration. (More information to come next week).  Students do not have to bring in Valentines, but if they choose to bring in Valentines to share --they need to bring one for everyone.  You do not need to buy Valentines. I have paper and supplies to make valentines. Please let me know if you need any. 
 
 


January 23-This week marks the mid-year mark for kindergarten! It is so hard to believe that the year is half over!  This week we have been reviewing what each block should look like  and sound like during our literacy time.  We talked about our dreams we shared at the beginning of the year and how in order to reach them we have to practice.  We cleaned out our book boxes and we added a few new books.  While we will continue to review the letters and their sounds, we are also working on building a sight word bank.  I sent the list of the first ten words home on Tuesday.  (blue card stock sheet)  These are on our word wall and we have been hunting for them in our weekly poems.  Any review that you can do with them at home is greatly appreciated.  Our reading strategy this week is creating mental images.  We practiced doing this together several times. We drew our mental images and shared them today.
In math we learned a new game called racing bears. Partners work together to collect as many chips as they can.  This game works on adding combinations of numbers to 10.  We are currently working on recognition and writing numbers to 20.  We have been working on counting to 100.  We will do a mystery number skype activity, with a class in another state, next Friday.  

I am very pleased with the growth I have seen in this group of writers.  They are really blooming!
The highlight of the week for me was our discussion about frost.  Is it snow or something different?  We will continue our talk on this.  I will share our “padlet” information in an email and you can add what you find out from home!


January 16-Last week we had a great time reading several versions of The Mitten.  We even designed and created mittens that wouldn’t disappear in the snow. 
This has been an interesting week! A delayed opening and a snow day!  This week we began mid-year assessments.  We have several of these that we do in Kindergarten for Language Arts and Math.  These assessments are used to plan instruction for the next nine weeks.   During Literacy this week we will read a story about Martin Luther King Jr. This will go nicely with our  social studies unit on Important Americans.  We will also read books about snow and animals.  Our sight words for the week are; on and is.  (last week sight word was in) I am attaching a copy of the first 10 sight words.  Please feel free to practice these with your penguin at home.  
 Please feel free to practice these with your penguin at home.  Keep in mind that a sight word is one that you can not sound out. Students can hunt for these in their nightly reading or poems.  I will be sharing with you other ways to work on sight words later in the month. 

In math we have been working onOctober 27-

Our letters for the week are V and W.  Students will be introduced to the sound cards that go with these letters.  Our fluency poem in class is called, Pumpkin, Pumpkin.  We will hunt for letters, listen for rhyme, and hunt for our sight words (on and and)  in this poem.  We will add it to our fluency binder.   We will also take a close look at the life cycle of the pumpkin plant.  The class has started a wondering chart of questions about pumpkins, and we will see if we can answer them. In math we will play compare.  We will work on combinations of making numbers and work on “throwing” numbers. 

I have enjoyed meeting with parents to go over assessments and discuss plans for the next quarter.  If the times still available do not work for you, please let me know and we can set up a conference that works with your schedule. 

September 30th- 
While this is a short week, it is filled with a lot of activities. In literacy we will add the N sound card and work on writing capital N’s.  Students will sort objects and pictures by beginning sounds.  We will add an apple poem to our fluency binder. 

In math we will play roll and record and learn a new game called, “Grab and Count”.  We have taken a look at the penny and counted 30 pennies, one for each day of September.  We have created a shape poster for our classroom.  We are now looking at how we can make shapes with other shapes.  (What shapes can we use to make a trapezoid? How many triangles can make a hexagon?)
Last week we learned that some communities created  totem poles to represent their community.  We decided to create a totem pole for our learning community. Students worked in groups to decide what they wanted to add to our community pole.  On Friday we were able to paint.  We are now working on putting it together.  I will send home a picture of what it looks like later in the week. As scientists we will be using our senses to examine apples.  

  We continue to enjoy our writing time. We are taking a close look at illustrations in the books we read.  We talk about how the illustration adds to the story.  We loved the illustrations in Scaredy Squirrel.   Friday, Mrs. Heathcock’s third grade class will share favorite books with us.  They will talk about what they liked about the illustrations.  We will use this to create our own illustration rubric for our story pictures.

  


September 17- This week we will continue our work on letter recognition and handwriting with the letters D and P.  We will hunt for these letters in our morning message, poems, and abc cards.   As I explained at Back-To-School night, our literacy block is organized around a “Daily 5”.  We have been working on Read-To-Self, Work on Writing, and Letter Work. This week we will add computers into our “Daily 5”.  Students will use these to Listen –to- Reading.  We will read The Dot and do an art project with the story at the end of the week.  

 In math we are working on number maps and sorting objects.  We are working on identifying attributes.  Key words that we will be using are; big, small, yellow, red, blue, thin and thick.  We will also take a close look at the attributes of a penny.  This unit in math is a nice lead into our first science unit on 5 senses that we will begin next week. 



September 8-   This week, during our literacy block, we will begin work with letter recognition and letter sounds.  Our letters for this week are capital T and capital E.  Students will practice writing these letters.  Please ask your child about good posture and grip.  We are also beginning to add stories to our book boxes and fluency binders.  Students practice these known stories from their book boxes and binders during Read-To-Self.   Please know we are starting at a place where students are comfortable so that we can establish our literacy block routine.
   In math we will explore attributes of buttons and shapes.  We will play Button Match and Shape Match.  Students will also begin work with subitizing (quick images of groups).  We are collecting items for our classroom that can be used for counting, sorting, building and patterning.  Here is a list of items we can use: containers and lids, seashells, dried beans, and keys.
The classroom is set up so that children can explore, investigate, estimate, make predictions, count, build and talk about their ideas.  Children are encouraged to tell how they arrived at their answers and look for alternative ways to solve problems.  Thank you for helping your child complete the All About Me posters.  We will be sharing them during a getting to know you activity.  

Each week we have an Emperor and Empress penguin.  This week our Emperor and Empress are Sean and Lily.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. 






the
Kindergarten Newsletter
Look what we’re studying…
Literacy:
- Blends: st, sp, sk, sm, sc, sn, sw, pl, sl, bl, cr, cl, fr, fl, br,
bl, gr, gl
Math:
- Identifying coins and adding pennies and nickels up to 10
cents
- Fractions: . and .
- Telling time to the hour
- Addition to 10
- Subtraction to 10
Social Studies and Science:
- Spring
- Plants
- Life cycles of frogs and butterflies
- Mother’s Day
- Earth Day, recycling, and the environment
- Oceans
Smiles,
The Kindergarten Team
4/3 4/11 4/12 4/21 4/24 4/27
5/5 5/8 5/11 5/12 5/13 5/24 5/25 5/25
Austin Madison Trisha Brody Chase Bones
Julia Caitlynn Leah Miles Taylor Alex Mikey Larkin
A P R I L / M A Y 2 0 1 3
Important
Dates:
• April 18th – Parks
Presentation
• April 23rd – 4th and 5th
Grade Music Concert
• April 26th – King’s
Coffee
• May 17th – King’s Coffee
• May 27th – NO SCHOOL
(Memorial Day)
• May 30th – Chiles Peach
Orchard Field Trip






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September Newsletter 2013

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