Friday, September 9, 2016

Dietzel Diary - Week of September 5, 2016

Dietzel Diary
News from Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School
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Week of September 5, 2016

This was another busy week of learning new routines.  We did a great job learning how to get milk and hot lunches.  We have been working hard to use polite words when being served, such as “Yes please” and “No thank you”.  This was a fun week to be a student at Saint Paul.  We opened a time capsule that was left for us 10 years ago!  We enjoyed seeing pictures of teachers that are still at St. Paul, and many of our students’ older siblings.  They also left us newspapers, ads, lists of popular movies, music, and church bulletins.  We continued to work together on ways to be a good friend, and how we can help each other learn.  Be sure to check out pictures on our blog of us during cooperative activities.  We built puzzles, read books, and figured out math problems using cubes.  Our class pet has joined us – Squirtle the Turtle.  He loves when anyone reads to him!

Please remember that your child needs a snack every day.  It is a long time between breakfast and lunch for our young learners.  If you are unable to provide snacks on a daily basis, please contact me directly so we can make other arrangements.

Religion:  This week we learned about Gods gifts of day, night and creation of the sky.  We also learned that God created the word because of love for life and beauty.
Language Arts:  We continued our first reading/writing book focused on the sound letter C makes.  Please continue to work with your child on writing their capital and lowercase “c”, as well as their name.  Your child will be coming home with a reading book each night.  Monday through Thursday are reading group books that we read in class and then the books come home so you can practice reading with them.  Please be sure to RETURN THE BOOK EVERY DAY.  We need them the next day for guided reading.  On Friday’s your child will bring home a book of their choice to enjoy over the weekend.  We also learned how to read wordless picture books.  Be sure look for your SuperKids e-mail this weekend so your child can continue to practice reading!
Math:  This week we continued to work on counting and writing numbers 2, 3 and 4.   We are counting to 30, and started practicing counting by 10’s.
Social Studies:  We read Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown and then created our own Flat Stanley.  We had lots of conversation about what we would do if we were as ‘flat as a pancake’.  On Thursday information was sent home in your child’s Tiger folder with information about how to participate in our class tracking Flat Stanley’s adventures.

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; distinguishing beginning sounds.
Math:  Counting and writing numbers 3-5.

Monday, Sept. 12 – 6:30-7:30 OPEN HOUSE!
Sunday, Sept. 18 – 11:00 AM Catechetical Sunday (School Mass)
Tuesday, Sept. 20 –  6:30-7:30 PTO Meeting

Friday, Sept. 23 – 1st Kindergarten Mass; Scholastic Book Orders Due

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