April 28th-May 2nd, 2014

                                            Kindergarten News

- Monday, April 28th^th will be day # 5-Music

 

v  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.

 

v  No show and tell this week.

 

 

v   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 28^th.  This will be the last time this year for this test.

 

v   The children attended a show in the gym called “Brain show Mania”.  It was a show with questions and contestants in a game show format. We had fun and even some winners!!!

 

           In Math we took the test for topic 11 on Thursday and it will come home in the Friday   folder for you to look over and sign.  We will begin topic 12 on Friday and continue it next week. We will be learning about measurement.  Please review the pages that come home in your child’s folder daily. 

 

       We are making a DVD for graduation that will have 2 individual pictures of every child in kindergarten on it, along with some group shots from every class. You may purchase it for $ 10.00, please see the form in your child’s folder.

 

v  Tuesday, April 22nd was Earth Day. We discussed the environment, and how to keep our planet clean.

 

 

Congratulations to the winners from the PTO Spring Fling Chinese Auction.   The last day for the school store is May 2^nd.

 

Next week will be the last time the children will have the opportunity to get books from the library.

Note:  Tuesday April 29^th there will be a change in the menu –It will be breaded pork chop with mashed potatoes and gravy, fruit and milk.

 

 

Dates to remember:

^{Fieldtrip- May 28th}

^{Carnival- May 23rd}

Kindergarten graduation- May 20^{h (evening)}