Kindergarten Newsletter

**We are in need of napkins and Kleenex. If you could send a box or package in, we would appreciate it! Thank you!**

Important Dates

*April 19 Half Day 12:05 dismissal**Dress in your favorite color

*Happy Easter

*April 22 Earth Day-Dress in green and each class will clean up the school yard

*April 24 Late Start

April 26 Donuts with your VIP

April 29-NWEA Testing begins-teacher will let you know what days we are testing

This Cycle

In Reading we have been reading Readers Theater books about A Farm and People At School.  We are all learning how to use an expressive voice while reading!!!  Your child brought home the new list of sight words in these books. In writing we continue to write letters and are now focussing on writing our opinion in these letters. In Handwriting we are reviewing all uppercase and lowercase as we write out the whole alphabet for practice.  In Phonics we practiced the Jj sound and practiced telling the beginning sound of a word , then changing the beginning sound to a different sound to make a new word.  (bat starts with /b/, change the /b/ to /h/: hat)  In Math we continue to become fluent with addition and subtraction to 5 and then memorize the facts to 10.  We all should know our 2D and 3D shapes! This week we will make 3D shapes with marshmallows and toothpicks.  In Centers we made a bunny for spring, we read books/songs on the ipads in the EPIC app, we played Popcorn sight words, we wrote three letter words and changed the beginning sound or ending sound to make a new word, and we walked around the room to find sight words to read and write!  In Math Centers we played Subtraction Bowling AGAIN! It was a fun game to get back out again. We played Bingo with numbers that were described as “2 tens and 3 ones”=23! We used ten frames to show addition to 10 and played a  ‘friends of 10” game to practice adding to ten. Lots of good practice, since the school year is flying by.

We went to the Planetarium on Monday and learned about the sun, moon, and some constellations!   In Science we are doing an experiment to see if plants NEED sunlight to grow. Hopefully we will be able to find out on Monday!

Weather

Make sure your child has a light jacket in their backpack even on days when the forecast is for 65 or above.  Michigan temperatures often drop drastically when a front comes through or the weather changes during the school day. We will always go outside!

Guest Readers

 Please let me know if you didn’t get to read to us or a Grandparent would like to read to us.  We will work it into our day usually at 3:20pm right before we leave school!

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I hope you have a Wonderful Easter Weekend!