April 29th to May 3rd

Kindergarten News-March 29thnd-May 3rd To begin this week we will be learning about a new digraph, the “digraph oo”. The children are taught that when two letters come together to make one sound it is called a digraph. We will learn that diagraph oo makes two different sounds – oo like in tooth and oo as in hook.  This week we will also learn about a new long vowel rule that we refer to in kindergarten as “sneaky e”. The rule is when a vowel is followed by a consonant and a silent “e”, the vowel is long: code the vowel with a macron, and cross out the silent “e”. Some examples are: hope, name, rule and theme.  Please prepare your child for testing for the report cards by reviewing all of the areas that we tested them on in the last three report cards. Also keep working on the words that your child will be required to write in ten minutes.  For Reading we will begin “This is the Way We go to School”. Its genre is fiction, and the comprehension skill is drawing conclusions. The social studies component concentrates on learning about towns and country sides, and we will learn about mountains and valleys.   We worked on our “wood and paper” unit in science today. Some of the goals of this unit are that the students observe the properties of wood and paper, comparing how they are alike and different, and how they can use what they have learned to create new things. We used sandpaper to change wood into sawdust.  In Math we will be working on money, counting by 2’s 5’s and 10’s, identifying geometric solids, addition and subtraction, and identifying and making symmetrical designs.  Orientation for new students will be held on May 31st in the afternoon. Field trip- May 23th Carnival- May 24th Graduation-May 28th Monday, March29th is Day 2.