April 15th-19th

Kindergarten News - Monday April 15th to April 19th This week in Phonics we are learning about the diagraph “sh”. A diagraph is when two letters come together to make one sound. We code digraphs by drawing a line under them. This reminds the children that the two letters only make one sound. Monday April 22nd will begin diebels testing with the Reading department, and very soon we will begin getting the testing started for the last report card. The reading department retests all of the children at the end of the year.  They are tested on letter identification, sounds, and the students have to give a word that begins with each letter of the alphabet.  A sentence will be dictated, and the children will have to write it. This is done one word at a time.  They will be given 10 minutes to write as many words as they can think of, and that’s why you are seeing us working on word families. I have had children in past years write more than 100 words. This you can practice all of these things at home, the more use to doing this, the easier it is for them the day of the test.  Next week we will be working on identifying and matching equivalent sets and identifying doubles by using dominoes. Please continue to practice money at home. The children are expected to know the name of a penny, nickel, dime and quarter and the value of each coin.  We are beginning unit 5-4 in Reading. This weeks’ story is “The Little Engine that Could”: its genre is” classic fantasy” and the comprehension skills is “plot”. Most of the children will be familiar with this book and its author Watty Piper, pen name of Mabel C. Bragg. Monday April 15th will be day # 2 on the school rotation and we will have music class. We are beginning to practice the songs for our kindergarten graduation.