April 22nd - 26th, 2013

Kindergarten News- - Tuesday April 22nd will be day # 2  This week, we will be focusing on the two sounds of digraph “th”. It makes a voiced (vibrating) sound as in feather and unvoiced sound as in thimble. Watch the daily worksheets to see the differences in the two sounds. The children already are aware of this digraph and use it frequently in their kid writing. We try to stick our tongue out to make these sounds.  Thursday ,April 25th there will be a supplement to the Republican Herald newspaper that will have our children’s responses to “What I want to be When I Grow Up”. Every kindergarten class at NSE participated in this.  You may have noticed that we are practicing for our “end of the year testing” on our phonic worksheets. The children are given 10 minutes to write as many words as they can as part of their kindergarten testing. The Reading teachers give the test in the cafeteria because there are no words to copy from, and we will be there to help. I am trying to teach “word families” like “at, it, ed, ug, etc to make it easy for the children to be successful on this test. Practice this at home. A tentative date for Diebels testing will be April 29th. This will be the last time this year for this test.  Thursday morning April 25th I will be visiting the Child Development Center in Ft. Springs to meet the girls and boys who will be attending kindergarten next year. This is a transitioning tool that we, in cooperation with child development, use to help the student feel more comfortable about coming to kindergarten next year. The children will be attending a show in the gym called “Brain show Mania”. It is a show with questions and contestants in a game show format.  In Math we will work on identifying and making symmetrical designs, counting pennies to pay for items that together cost less than 30 cents and writing numerals through 30 to label sets. Please review the pages that come home in your child’s folder daily.  Monday, April 22nd is Earth Day. Discuss the environment, and how to keep our planet clean. Dates to remember: Fieldtrip- May 23rd Carnival- May 24th Kindergarten graduation- May 28th (evening)