Friday, January 31, 2014

Kindergarten news for the week of February 3rd - 7th


Kindergarten News for the week of February 3rd – 7th  

We will have our Valentine Party on Thursday- Feb 13th .  Your child should make sure they have a valentine for everybody in our class and bring them on Monday morning.  Just in case you haven’t done the Valentine cards yet, it’s easier if you would please PRINT all names.  The children cannot read cursive writing! 

In math this week we will continue to work on subtraction.  We will take about comparisons, using the minus sign and writing subtraction sentences to find differences.

In phonics we will learn the letter Ee as in elephant and equal.  Some of the concepts that will be reviewed this week are same/different words, rhyming, alphabetizing words and recognizing the /e/ when heard in words.  The sound is difficult for the letter /e/!  We will practice.   This is our last of the 5 vowels.                                                                                            In reading next week we will be reading a story Hide, Clyde!!  We will discuss camouflage and the concept of main idea. 

We learned how to make predictions this week for Groundhog day and the Super Bowl!!

Monday is day 3 on our rotation week!  We have gym!  Please wear or bring sneakers!

I’m sure you’ve seen that our PTO is having a theme basket auction on April 12th and 13th .  They are asking each homeroom to create a basket to be used as a prize.  Our theme is “I want candy!”  I am asking that each child send in a donation.  It can be as big as a bag or box of candy or as small as a pack of gum or tic tacs.  We will fill the basket and you will see it at the auction. 

Computers in education booklets will come home soon.  Please fill these out completely and return asap for a small prize.