April 8th-12th

Kindergarten New- April -8th-12th  This week, since we have covered all of the letters of the alphabet, we will now be working on final digraph ck. The rule is that when the/k/ sound comes at the end of a word, and there is a short vowel before it, you use the diagraph “ck”. Examples: black , duck, lock  Keep practicing with your child to help them write as many words as they can in ten minutes so that they will be successful on the end of the year test.  The wedding of Q and u went very well. We had a lovely ceremony, and we feasted on wedding cake and punch. The children had a wonderful time blowing wedding bubbles outside, and we dance at the reception. All the parts for our wedding were randomly chosen by picking the children’s names from a hat so that it would be fair.  Reading-We are introducing the story Messenger, Messenger . This book will expand the concept of transportation from the past stories by learning about the kinds of transportation that help people do their jobs.  We will start a science journal just like Jack used in the Magic tree house books, for our unit “Animals Two by Two”.  Report cards should be signed and returned as soon as possible. In Math we will continue to work on money, graphing, and problem solving. We will be covering designs using tangrams and exploring slides, turns and flips. Please review the pages that come home in your child’s folder daily. The children are doing a wonderful job with their kidwriting. You might see some papers coming home that the children are doing at learning centers while I am kidwriting with another group. All of the learning center activities revolve around things that we introduce in class, and are an extension of their learning. Kindergarten graduation pictures went very well, and it is hard to believe that we are at this point in your child’s kindergarten year. Thanks to the wonderful homeroom moms that helped out with the graduation pictures! Monday, April 8th is day # 2 and we have music class. Enjoy the warmer weather this weekend!!!!!!