April 17, 2009

April 17, 2009

Dear Families,

During this week the students learned about a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, and u-e. They learned that they symbol “-” stands for any consonant. They learned that the “sneaky e” at the end of the word makes the vowel sound say its long sound. We discussed Earth Day by reading books and watching some informative videos. The boys and girls picked up litter on the playground and by the football field. Kindergartners wrote in their journals completing the sentence “I can help the Earth by ........”. Centers included planting seeds with our friend Mrs. Laurie Schafer, the patterning evaluation, writing in the missing letter on a worksheet, dominoes, word bingo, floating ducks with numbers on their tummies, and the Go Fishing beginning sound game.

Remember, there is no school for the kindergartners next week. Any kindergartner that shows up at school will be sent back home!

The Grandparent/Guest Days are Thursday, May 14th and Friday, May 15th. Students may invite their grandparents for either day. Invitations were sent home this week. If you need more invitations for some reason, please let us know. We have made a few extras. If there are no grandparents that can attend, please invite an adult friend to attend. If you have more than one set of grandparents, they may all attend on one day or some on Thursday and some on Friday. It is really important to have SOMEONE attend at least one of the days. We have found that students that have NO guests either day feel really, really bad.

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 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. Also, many students STILL need new glue sticks. Please, please, please send a new glue stick if you haven’t during the last 2 weeks.

Track and field day has been scheduled for Wednesday, May 27th. If the weather is inclement, then track and field day will be rescheduled for Thursday, May 28th. By the way, Thursday, May 28th is the last day of school!

Have a wonderful time with your kindergartner during round up vacation!

Mrs. Daugherty, Mrs. Owens, Mrs. Herink, Mrs. Pokorny, and Mr. Degner