March4th-8th, 2013

What’s happening in Kindergarten? March 4th-March 8th Phonics: We will be learning the letter Xx, like the end of fox and six. We will separate words in compound words, and we will be working on testing wordlist # 12, and you can begin practicing wordlist # 13 at home. Due to such a fun filled week, we did not get the opportunity to test wordlist # 12. Math: We will be creating, identifying and extending ABBC patterns, compare numbers through ten by using playing cards, identifying right and left, exploring tangrams, and learn to divide by sharing. Keep practicing number writing at home, especially if you see a lot of reversals, or a lot of homework practice being sent home. Reading: We will be finishing the lessons from the book” If You Could go to Antarctica” and we begin reading the next book “ Abuela”. Its genre is fiction, and the comprehension skill is setting. The phonics review for this story is the vowel “Ee”, and it is always good to have as much practice as we can for our vowels. Social Studies: The children will learn about transportation and the culture of areas other than where we live. Many children are forgetting their library books on day # 3. They get very disappointed if they can’t get a new book. Also many students are forgetting about show and tell and they do get very upset when they forget. Remember that we will always have show-and-tell on Fridays of each week, and it is for the letter that we are learning that week. If the time arises that we don’t have it, I will inform you in the Friday newsletter. Information: *We are beginning to read a chapter book series called “The Magic Tree House” by Mary Pope Osborne. The children really like these books. You can usually buy them from the Scholastic book order. *We go out to recess any day that it is above 32 degrees and there is an area that is not covered with snow for the children to run around and get some exercise. Many children are coming to school with no hat and gloves. Please make sure that they are properly dressed for the cold weather. If you want to keep an extra pair of gloves to keep in their cubbies that would be fine. Monday March 4th will be day #5, and we will have gym class. Don’t forget sneakers!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had a” Seussifully wonderful day today!!!!” We were lucky enough to have Ms. Amy who is a graduate student from Bloomsburg University as our first guest reader, and she read “Green Eggs and Ham, and she even played her guitar and sang with us! We also had my wonderful daughter Carlee read “Oh the Thinks You can Think” and she gave the children beautiful cookies in the shape of the cat’s Hat. Last but not least Mr. Brown came to read to us and he read a very appropriate book “Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You”. He brought lollipops for the kids. What a great day” And remember—A Person’s a Person No Matter How Small”