Dietzel Diary
News from
Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School
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Week of September 12, 2016
We made it through our first full week of
school! A BIG thank you to all the
parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles …. that were able to attend Open
House. It was so nice to talk with so
many of you. Our Flat Stanley’s are all
ready to be mailed. If you haven’t sent
in your addresses, please send them next week.
This week we had our first visit to the Library. Mrs. Children read us a story and we learned
where some of our favorite books are located in the library. We can check out a book every week, as long
as we bring back the previous week’s book.
Don’t forget to send your child’s towel and bag back on Monday!
Religion: This week we learned that God created the
world because of his love for life and beauty.
We learned that beauty and wonder are created everywhere. We should praise God for his gift of creation.
Language Arts: We met a new SuperKid friend, Oswald. He likes different types of animals. We learned about the otter, ostrich, octopus,
ox, and ocelot. We worked on recognizing
the difference between fiction and non-fiction stories. The comprehension skills we focused on this
week included: using prior knowledge,
character, setting, and making predictions.
We are also working on recognizing rhyming words.
Math: This week we worked on reading, writing and
counting to 5. We are practicing how to
count one-to-one several different ways, but our favorite way is by playing the
game, Don’t Count your Chickens. We are counting to 40, and continued practicing
counting by 10’s. We are working on
filling a hundreds chart by adding two numbers every day to the chart. We are learning different strategies to help
us know where the numbers go, such as counting by 10’s, noticing the number in
the 10’s column or 1’s column, and sometimes we just “count on” from an
existing number.
Social Studies: In preparation of Flat Stanley’s travels, we
spent time finding different places on the world map. We focused on North America. We discussed how North America is really made
up of three different countries. We
learned that Canada is located North of the United States, and Mexico is
located South of the USA.
COMING UP …
Book of the Week: One by Kathryn Otashi. Focus words: floating, overall, comforted, budge
Language Arts: Continue working on writing our names
correctly; working with words that begin with the O/o/ sound; rhyming words;
writing and illustrating a nature book.
Math: Counting and writing numbers 6-7.
Sunday, Sept. 18 – 11:00 AM
Catechetical Sunday (School Mass)
Tuesday, Sept. 20 – 6:30-7:30 PTO Meeting
Wednesday, Sept. 21 – FIELD
TRIP: Fire Department
Friday, Sept. 23 – 1st
Kindergarten Mass; Scholastic Book Orders Due
Tuesday, Oct. 4 – FIELD TRIP: Beckwith Apple Orchard
Thursday, Oct. 6 – Conferences
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