Dietzel Diary - Week of October 24, 2016

Dietzel Diary

News from Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School

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Week of October 24, 2016

A HUGE thank you to all the parents, grandparents, friends and family that contributed to our Annual Walk-a-thon fundraiser.  Although we couldn’t walk outside because of the rain, we still enjoyed the pep rally, walking in the gym, the treat bags and especially the pizza!  Also a BIG thank you to everyone that contributed to our Halloween Party.  This week Mr. Dietzel joined our class and helped us to carve a scary pumpkin.  We had lots of fun scooping out the gooey insides and sorting the seeds.  We dried the seeds, seasoned them, roasted them and ate them!  They were received with mixed reviews J.  Almost everyone really enjoyed the pumpkin pie though!

ROSARY – October has been the month of the Holy Rosary.  I am so proud of how well the class has been doing praying a decade each morning.  Their Rosary’s will be coming home on Monday.  Please keep in mind that your child’s Rosary has been blessed by Fr. Pfeiffer.  They are not toys.  They are to be used to pray.  If you do not want to keep the Rosary, please return it to school.

Religion:  This week we deepened our awareness of the talents God has given each of us.  We praise God for the talents HE has given us.  We also talked about different feelings and how it is okay for us to feel whatever feelings we have.

Language Arts:  This week we continued working with beginning and end /d/ sound words.  We have also been blending sounds at the beginning and ending of words to help us decode new words.  We focused on vocabulary words: odd, inventions.  The comprehension skill we worked on were using cause and effect and visualizing strategies.  

Math:  This week we worked on representing, counting and writing the number 6.  We moved from using a 5-frame to using a 10-frame.  We are using cubes (cube trains) to represent numbers.  We have also been working on recognizing and creating patterns.  Patterns can be created using the shape or color of an object.

Science:   This week we learned about pumpkins.  We learned that the seeds we scooped out of our pumpkin we could eat, but we could also plant them and another pumpkin will grow.  We also learned that when pumpkins sprout from the ground jagged, prickly leaves grow on twisty vines that wander in all directions.  Where we see flowers we learned that they will wilt and a small green knob will appear.  This will eventually grow and become a pumpkin.

COMING UP …

Language Arts:  We will be working with beginning and ending S/s/ sounds. 

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

Tuesday, Nov. 1 – 8:30 MASS (All Saints Day)

Wednesday, Nov. 2 – K/1 Book Club

Friday, Nov. 4 – Report Cards

Tuesday, Nov. 8 – Election Day

Friday, Nov. 11 – FIELD TRIP MONEY DUE