Dietzel Diary - Week of October 17, 2016

Dietzel Diary

News from Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School

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Week of October 17, 2016

A HUGE thank you to Danae Williams who has agreed to be our room mother!  Please contact her directly with any questions about our Halloween Party.  You will be hearing from her about other events throughout the year.  We really enjoyed painting pictures this week.  We read a book called …Ish by Peter H. Reynolds.  Sometimes children get overly concerned about drawing things “just right”.  In the book …Ish Peter explains that we shouldn’t get hung up on making our art perfect, but rather how we see things and if we are happy with our work that’s what matters.  The class did a great job painting and making up creative titles for the work.  If you have an opportunity to visit, check out our paintings outside our classroom.  Please be aware that not all art will be sent home throughout the year.  I save some pieces for our Art Show in May.

Religion:  This week we learned about Noah and the Ark.  We talked about how God we should be thankful for the gifts of God’s creation.  God created each of us and gave us gifts.  We should celebrate our uniqueness and remember that God’s love makes them special.

Language Arts:  This week we worked with beginning and end /d/ sound words.  We met a new friend, Doc.  She likes to build and repair things.  We worked with vocabulary words: swaying, hunched up, and swooping by reading poetry.  The comprehension skill we worked on was using illustrations to help understand a story.  

Math:  This week we continued working with “same as”, “greater than” and “less than”.  We are working hard at being able to recall what number comes before and after another, without having to start counting at 1 each time.  This has been a very busy week learning lots of different types of math games.  We are working hard with number sense (our 100s chart is helpful), 1-to-1 correspondence (board games work great) and learning about “greater than”, “less than” and the “same as” (card games help).

Social Studies:   This week we learned about what responsibilities mean.  We talked about how some responsibilities are different and some are the same at home and school.  We all agreed that as continue to grow up we can handle more responsibilities. 

COMING UP …

The Halloween Parade will start at 1:15.  We will walk around the block and then return to our classroom for a Halloween party.  Please keep in mind that students may not use any weapons as props with their costumes.  Your child needs to wear their regular school uniform to school and we will change into our costumes after quiet time.  Please do not send make up unless you will be here to apply it.

Language Arts:  We will continue working with beginning and ending d/d/.  We will be reading quite a few books about pumpkins, seeds and plants.

Math:  We will be working on representing, counting and writing numbers 6-9.

Wednesday, Oct. 26 – K/1 Book Club

Friday, Oct. 28 – End of 1^st quarter; Halloween Parade & Party

Tuesday, Nov. 2 – 8:30 MASS (All Saints Day)

Friday, Nov. 11 – FIELD TRIP MONEY DUE