Week of March 11-15, 2013

Kindergarten News

This week we will be working on the letter Ww and its sound as in wagon and watermelon.  Review identifying and writing letters learned.  Also practice blending letters in three, four, and five letter words.  We will have Show & Tell so please follow the schedule.  **Word List 18 will be tested on Monday, March 11^th.  Practice daily!

  To go along with our letter Ww, we will have Wacky Hair Day on Thursday, March 14^th.  Start thinking about a wacky hairstyle for the day.  Remember boys and girls with short hair can always wear WIGS—they are wacky too!!!

 Wednesday, March 13^th will be WATERY WEDNESDAY.   We will be talking about water and completing different experiments involving water throughout the day.  It will be WONDERFUL!

  As a theme for the week we will be discussing different kinds of weather.  Maybe we will even have a future meteorologist in our midst!

  For Reading we will read the story, Mayday! Mayday!  by author Chris L. Demarest.  It is an informational text and we will be talking about emergency transportation.  We will practice the comprehension skill cause and effect and review the letter Xx and its sound /ks/.  Please practice the new high frequency words blue, yellow and green.

 In Math we will be working with sorting and identifying tangram pieces, covering designs using tangrams, and identifying small, medium, and large shapes.  We will measure length & width using nonstandard units, graph a picture on a pictograph, explore slides, turns, and flips, and count forward and backward on a number line.  Be sure to review daily practice pages at home!

  This week we will be testing for the 3^rd marking period.  Please help your child prepare by reviewing all the letters and sounds learned in phonics, blending sounds to read words, practice high frequency words and sight words, practice rhyming words, practice counting to 100, identifying numbers to 0-30, identifying coins; penny, nickel, dime, and quarter, and know each coin’s value, and tell time to the hour.

  Newspaper in Education Week ended on Friday, March 8^th and the pink “I’m a Reader” forms, for those who participated, should be returned to the teacher by Tuesday, March 12^th with a parent’s signature and initial for each day of the week.  **Forms returned after Tuesday will NOT have students name printed in the newspaper for participating, so please send in completed forms by the 12^th!

  On Friday, March 15^th we will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day—Don’t forget to wear something green.  It could be your lucky day!!!

--Happy ½ birthday to Kaitlyn Werner!  We are celebrating her 6^th birthday, which will be August 9^th while we are on summer break from school.  Best Wishes, Kaitlyn!

Monday, March 11^th is Day 5—Music Class.  Be sure to wear sneakers and gym attire on Wednesday, March 13^th.  Library books will be needed on Friday, March 15th.