April 11, 2008

April 11, 2008

Dear Families,

During this week the students made Alphabet Books with the keywords on each page. Looking through this book this summer will help the boys and girls practice their sounds and remember the keywords. We read another booklet. It is called A Pup and a Cat. We practiced filling in the missing numbers on a worksheet, and this time the numbers went backwards! Centers included word bingo, journaling, geoboards, dominoes, books, war, and the flower shop.

IN THE FUTURE, during sandal weather, please send extra socks with your kindergartner so that they can wear them with their gym shoes to gym class. Please send a sweatshirt or jacket to school. When we go outside for the very first recess, (when it is nice!) it tends to be a bit cool.

Please send a picture of your kindergartner to school. We will be making a special project with them so the picture will not return home in its original form.

Remember that the students do not have school Monday, April 21st - Friday, April 25th. That is Round Up vacation. School will resume on Monday, April 28th. During break it would be great if students would review birthdays, phone numbers, addresses, days of the week, months of the year, counting by tens and fives, counting to 100 by ones, and identifying coins and their values. Reading is also a terrific idea!

Track and Field Day is currently scheduled for Friday, May 30th. The kindergartners will participate in 3 different events. The do the 50 yard dash, the sack race, and the tug of war. Track and Field Day typically runs all day, but the kindergartners’ events are scheduled pretty closely together. Information will be coming home in the future about this popular event. The rain date is scheduled for Monday, June 2nd.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Ms. Howard, Mrs. Owens, Mrs. Herink, and Mrs. Pokorny