Kindergram February 2, 2012

Kindergram

February 2, 2012

Mr. Daugherty *Mrs. Eggers *Mrs. Oetker

READING:  We are reading about weather and  and seasons. We are talking  about what the differences are in the 4 seasons and different types of weather.  This week has been a crazy week in the weather discussions.  We read about the 100^th day on Monday and had a great time visiting the different rooms and doing the different 100 themed activities.

HOMEWORK:  LETTER OF THE WEEK: “Tt” will be the letter of the week starting on Monday, February 6.  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 will be  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 the weather. We are learning how to dress for the different types of weather we have in Iowa.

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.

Thank you to everyone who made a donation to Kaitlynn Hughes and her family after losing their house in a fire!  You are wonderful people!  J

ParentMagic.com is a great parent sight.  Fisher School is offering training to parents.  Call the office if you’d like to learn more!

With Valentines Day just around the corner we have a Homework assignment for the Kindergarten class.  Each child will need a container to hold the Valentines they will receive.  The containers need to be at school by February 10^th 2012.  Good luck and be creative!!

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 23 students

Mrs. Eggers’ class 22 students

Mrs. Oetker’s class 23 students
 

Dates to Remember:

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

·         February 20:  No School unless we have a snow day.

·         February 23:  Assembly/Buddy Activity

·         March 5-9: 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

Things to work on with your child:

*Recognizing the difference between a circle and a sphere, a square and a cube, and a triangle and a pyramid.

*The different sounds the letters make in words.

*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 1-30.

*Keep working on recognizing the 25 Kindergarten words.

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