Kindergram February 24, 2011

Kindergram

February 24, 2011

Mr. Daugherty *Mrs. Eggers *Mrs. Oetker

READING:  We will continue our unit of study about friends.  We will be learning what it takes to make a new friend and how to get along with our friends. We are continuing to learn and practice our social skills.  We will be learning about Dr. Seuss next week. 

HOMEWORK:  LETTER OF THE WEEK: “Ww” will be the letter of the week starting on Monday, February 28.  Please sit down with your child and discuss what sound this letter makes.  Have your child cut out one small picture from a magazine or newspaper that begins with the letter “W” and bring it to school.

MATH:  We are learning about subtraction.  We are learning how to take a large group and break it up into smaller groups.  We are also reviewing the math terms “Fewer than”  and “More than”.  We will be learning about the ‘-‘ sign and the ‘=’ sign. 

HANDWRITING:  We need to keep practicing the lower case letters.  We know how to make the letters: c, o, a, s, d, g, v, w, u, t, i, l, k.   All of these letters start on the top line.  The letter t is the only letter so far that starts above the top.  It is made with a big line going down.

SCIENCE:  We are discussing what it means to be healthy. We are learning how to take care of your teeth and different ways to be healthy.

Kinderblog update: The blog has been updated with the 25 Kindergarten words and the kindergarten word families we will be working on. http://fisher-kindergarten.blogspot.com/ Come check us out.

Parent Visitors: to ensure a minimum disruption to learning please our visitor rules:

1. Always check in at the office and get a visitors badge.

2. If it is the end of the day please wait for your child at the appropriate outside exits.

3. Visitors should wait by the office and your child will be brought down to you.

4. We are available for conferences regarding your child’s progress before school, 8:00 to 8:25 a.m., and after school, 3:20 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., by appointment on school days.

Travel Ted is visiting each kindergartner.  Be looking for Travel Ted to visit your home very soon. Travel Ted encourages your child to write about his experience with you and your child.  Enjoy your time with him!  He loves to play and do much more!  J

Dr. Seuss Reading Day:

We are celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday on March 3rd by joining many other schools in “Reading Across America”. Our plan is to have community helpers, school administrators, and parents make this a “Read-to-Kids day” that they won’t forget.  Don’t forget to send back the slip to let us know when you can read to us!

Things to work on with your child:

*The different sounds the letters make in words.

*Ways to make a new friend.

*Different words which can be made with the “at” and “an” family.

*Have your child help make out the grocery list and let them write down the items.

*Tying shoes.

*Recognizing the numbers from 1-20.

*Keep working on recognizing the 25 Kindergarten words.

Dates to Remember:

·         February 28:  Assembly/Buddy Activity

·         March 1-4: Parent/Teacher conference week

·         March 18: School is dismissed at 11:20

·         March 21-25: No School Spring break

Thank you for all that you do to make your child’s kindergarten year a successful one.  Have a great weekend! 

Kindergram February 17 2011

Kindergram

February 17, 2011

Mr. Daugherty *Mrs. Eggers *Mrs. Oetker

READING:  We will continue our unit of study about friends.  We will be learning what it takes to make a new friend and how to get along with our friends. We are continuing to learn and practice our social skills.

HOMEWORK:  LETTER OF THE WEEK: “Vv” will be the letter of the week starting on Monday, February 14.  Please sit down with your child and discuss what sound this letter makes.  Have your child cut out one small picture from a magazine or newspaper that begins with the letter “V” and bring it to school.

MATH:  We are learning how to join two groups together to make a whole.  We will also be learning the symbols: + and =.  Ask your child if they can join two groups together.

HANDWRITING:  We need to keep practicing the lower case letters.  We know how to make the letters: c, o, a, s, d, g, v, w, u, t, i, l, k.   All of these letters start on the top line.  The letter t is the only letter so far that starts above the top.  It is made with a big line going down.

SCIENCE:  We are discussing what it means to be healthy. We are learning how to take care of your teeth and different ways to be healthy.

Parent Visitors: to ensure a minimum disruption to learning please our visitor rules:

1. Always check in at the office and get a visitors badge.

2. If it is the end of the day please wait for your child at the appropriate outside exits.

3. Visitors should wait by the office and your child will be brought down to you.

4. We are available for conferences regarding your child’s progress before school, 8:00 to 8:25 a.m., and after school, 3:20 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., by appointment on school days.

Travel Ted is visiting each kindergartner.  Be looking for Travel Ted to visit your home very soon. Travel Ted encourages your child to write about his experience with you and your child.  Enjoy your time with him!  He loves to play and do much more! 

Dr. Seuss Reading Day:

We are celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday on March 3rd by joining many other schools in “Reading Across America”. Our plan is to have community helpers, school administrators, and parents make this a “Read-to-Kids day” that they won’t forget.  Don’t forget to send back the slip to let us know when you can read to us!

Things to work on with your child:

*The different sounds the letters make in words.

*Ways to make a new friend.

*Different words which can be made with the “at” and “an” family.

Have your child help make out the grocery list and let them write down the items.

*Recognizing the numbers from 1-20.

*Keep working on recognizing the 25 Kindergarten words.

Dates to Remember:

·         February 21:  School Make up day

·         February 24:  February/August Birthday club

·         February 28:  Assembly/Buddy Activity

·         March 1-4: Parent/Teacher conference week

Thank you for all that you do to make your child’s kindergarten year a successful one.  Have a great weekend! 

Kindergram Febrtuary 10 2011

Kindergram

February 10, 2011

Mr. Daugherty *Mrs. Eggers *Mrs. Oetker

READING:  We are reading about friends and what makes a friend.  We are talking about Valentines day and what it means to give a valentine.  We are discovering what it takes to send mail through the post office.

HOMEWORK:  LETTER OF THE WEEK: “Tt” will be the letter of the week starting on Monday, February 14.  Please sit down with your child and discuss what sound this letter makes.  Have your child cut out one small picture from a magazine or newspaper that begins with the letter “T” and bring it to school.

MATH:  We are finishing our work in Topic 9 which is over measurement.  We measured with cubes and estimated how long different objects can be.  We made an inch worm ruler to help us measure with inches.  We sure do love to measure different things in the room!  Our next topic will be simple addition.

HANDWRITING:  We need to keep practicing the lower case letters.  We know how to make the letters: c, o, a, s, d, g, v, w, u, t.   All of these letters start on the top line.  The letter t is the only letter so far that starts above the top.  It is made with a big line going down.

SCIENCE:  We are discussing what it means to be healthy. We are learning how to take care of your teeth and different ways to be healthy.

Parent Visitors: to ensure a minimum disruption to learning please our visitor rules:

1. Always check in at the office and get a visitors badge.

2. If it is the end of the day please wait for your child at the appropriate outside exits.

3. Visitors should wait by the office and your child will be brought down to you.

4. We are available for conferences regarding your child’s progress before school, 8:00 to 8:25 a.m., and after school, 3:20 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., by appointment on school days.

We want to welcome our new kindergarten student Tabathia

Dr. Seuss Reading Day:

We are celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday on March 3rd by joining many other schools in  “Reading Across America”. Our plan is to have community helpers, school administrators, and parents make this a “Read-to-Kids day” that they won’t forget.  Don’t forget to send back the slip to let us know when you can read to us!

Valentines:  When your child sends Valentines to school; please have the student sign their own name on the Valentine.  Do not put whom the Valentines are for.  We only have a short time to pass them out.  Thanks for your help.

Mr. Daugherty’s class 19 students

Mrs. Eggers’ class 21 students

Mrs. Oetker’s class 22 students

Dates to Remember:

·         February 14:  Valentine Parties 2:00-3:00 p.m.

PTO meeting 6:30 p.m.

·         February 15:  Music program 1:30 p.m. at the High School Auditorium

·         February 21:  School Make up day J

·         February 24:  February/August Birthday club

·         February 28:  Assembly/Buddy Activity

·         March 1-4: Parent/Teacher conference week

***DONATIONS***

We could really use the following items.  These items help us with many classroom activities.  Thank you for donating!  We really appreciate it!

1.     Baby Wipes to help kill all the flu germs.

2.     conversational hearts (Mrs. Eggers and Mrs. Oetker’s Class)

Thank you for all that you do to make your child’s kindergarten year a successful one.  Have a great weekend!  J

Tooth Song

Happy Tooth

Written by

Mrs. Eggers’ Class

(sung to the tune of “I’m a Little Teapot”)

I am Mr. Happy Tooth

Let me play.

In your mouth-I play all day.

I like to eat and chew your food.

So, be nice to me and brush me too!

Some pictures of the projects we are doing in Kindergarten!

 We are learning how to cover our nose and mouth when we cough or sneeze.

 We made some very creative penguins during the month of January.

We made Shoe Art on the 100th day  of school.  Here are a few examples.  Can you guess what each picture is?

 Here are some Snowmen we made using a shaving cream and white glue mixture.  We than wrote about our snowmen.

 We made Stone Soup.  It was very Yummy! 

 Shhhhhhhh!  Bears sleeping.  We learned about different animals who hibernate during the winter.

We had fun with glitter making our Glitter Snowflakes.