Friday Note: April 15,
2016
Events of the Week: This week our
unit was on animals and their babies. We
talked about various animal mommies and their babies and discussed ways in
which animal parents care for their young- just like our mommies and daddies
care for us!
- Language Workshop: We read several books
about animals and their young. We
completed a book Mother, Mother Can you Find Me? to put in our
Reading Boxes for independent reading later.
- Writing Workshop: We reviewed opinion
writing. Our writing this week was
on our favorite animal. We began by doing a pre-writing activity where
each child lists his/her opinion and then gives two reasons for this
opinion. From there, we transferred
this writing to another paper for a final draft.
- Word Study: We introduced
antonyms (opposites). Most
kindergarten students have a firm grasp of this concept already, but it
was fun to play games with opposites and talk about sets of opposites that
we hadn’t thought about before.
- Math: We finished a unit on decomposing numbers 11-19. Each day we practiced breaking the numbers
down into a set of 10 and left over ones.
Important Dates:
o
April 15, 18-21:
Buy 1 Get 1 Free Book Fair
o
April 18-19: Spring
Parent-Teacher Conferences
o
April
22: NO SCHOOL!
o
April 27:
Field Trip Form and Money Due
o April 29: NO SCHOOL FOR KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS!
o May 4: Kindergarten Field Trip
Kindergarten Field Trip
The
kindergarten field trip will be Wednesday, May 4th. We will travel to J.R. Martin Park in
Republic to play and eat lunch before heading to the Dickerson Park Zoo.
A
permission slip was sent home last week.
Please return these as soon as possible.
Parent Teacher Conferences
Parent-Teacher Conferences will
be held next week. You will find the schedule in your child’s
folder. If you did not sign-up for a
time either online or in writing, I chose a time for you. I hope to see everyone there.
The Character Word for April is:
Self-Control—Behaving
appropriately
We Need
Your Help!
Kindergarten screening for next year’s
kindergartners will be held on April 28th and 29th. If you know someone who will have a child in
kindergarten next school year, please remind them to call the school to
schedule an appointment for Kindergarten Screening (743-4810). All children will need to have the following
documentation:
- Birth Certificate
- Social Security
Card
- Shot Record
- Proof of Residency
(if NOT enrolled in Parents as Teachers)
Sight Words—Keep practicing!
I is like
see my a the be
have it he she
to can with go
we me
you and are they in
of at do
not for am
this was
Next
Week:
± We will begin an author
study unit on Laura Numeroff.
± We will review concepts
previously taught in math and reassess those areas that your child has not
scored proficient.
± We will be working on
building and writing sight words.
± Our
sight words will be “his”.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Wenger
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