April 9, 2009

April 9, 2009

Dear Families,

During this week the students did several Easter/spring activities. They practiced reading color words with an Easter Bunny booklet and an Easter egg coloring paper. The kindergartners made Easter cards and worked with beginning sounds on a cute Easter beginning sound paper. We practiced using dimes, nickels, pennies, and quarters. The boys and girls learned about the digraph oo. Oo has two sounds: oo as in hook and oo as in tooth. More flashcards are attached! Please practice them often to help your student become a confident reader.

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 20th - Friday, April 24th. That is Round Up vacation. School will resume on Monday, April 27th. 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 Wednesday, May 27th. The kindergartners will participate in 3 different events. They 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 Thursday, May 28th.

Have a wonderful 3 day weekend!
Mrs. Daugherty, Mrs. Owens, Mrs. Herink, Mr. Degner, and Mrs. Pokorny