April 8, 2019 4:23 pm
Kindergarten Highlights
Week of April 8th, 2019
It’s beginning to look a lot like spring time everywhere we go: sun shining, temperatures warming up, and people out and about because it’s nice. This week we have our Art Festival (Open House) and opening of the walk in Planetarium scheduled for Thursday April 11th from 5:00 to 6:30. The students will feature our “Scribbles” and hard work reporting on and creating the solar system. Stop in if you are available. The planetarium will be up for some time so you will be able to check that out as you drop off or pick-up. It will be a work in progress throughout the remainder of the month. April is also is packed with wonderful holidays. We send our best wishes to all of our families celebrating Easter and Passover. Just a reminder that Turtle Creek will be closed for the holidays starting from end of school day on Thursday, April 18 and will reopen on Monday, April 29th.
Our focus in social studies and science shifts from the stars to the earth’s surface. We have been and will continue to discuss garbage. Recent statistics and news releases all have a concurrent theme to their message: we are polluting and causing our planet dire harm. We will discuss recycling and ways we can help do our part. We will learn about some amazing children that are effecting change and learn that if we work together and each do our small part we can have positive changes! Earth gives us everything we need and we all have a responsibility to take care of the planet.
This week the students will receive a new reader. The skills include digraphs (ee, oa, ea) and/or three letter onset and rhyme (ail, air), and review learned sight words. Please continue to review these and prior introduced skills as listed on the cover of the reader. Your child should be spending 10 minutes reading in addition to being read to. We want to encourage independence and a love of reading.
In math this week we move to a new topic, subtraction. It is difficult at first to switch from addition to subtraction as we have invested weeks practicing the strategies of addition (plus zero, plus one, plus two and three, doubles, doubles plus one and doubles plus two). It is my experience that at first, students continue to add rather than subtract. We need to remind them to look carefully at the sign and gently remind them subtraction is taking away or breaking apart and the difference must be less than what we started with. We will introduce the concept this week and continue the next few weeks to learn strategies to help with subtraction facts.
Please check your child’s folder for this week’s spelling words. We are moving to the third column on the Fry list the first ten words only! Review the prior lists; the remaining words for the spelling test on Friday which will come from those lists. We learn words, not to spell them on a test, but to know them when we see them in print and to use them in our writing. As we become more proficient in spelling, we often use these words in our writing.
Hope all is well with your families and thank you for your continued support.
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