Dietzel Diary - January 23, 2017

Dietzel Diary

News from Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School

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Week of January 23, 2017

 

We have been having so much fun this week getting ready for Open House on Sunday and Catholic Schools Week.  We are doing a good job counting by 5’s, as well as counting backwards from 10.  Keep working with your child!  We had fun making a shoe so we can practice tying.  I know it’s a tough skill to learn, especially with so many shoes having Velcro, but it is an important skill for students to learn.  We have a wall of shoes congratulating those that are successful tying on their own.  I hope to see everyone’s shoe up there very soon!

Catholic Schools Week Mission Project— Thank you for all the donations for our First Responders Care Packages that we will be putting together next week. 

Religion:  This week we learned to appreciate neighbors and community.  We learned that neighbors show God’s love and that neighbors are community members.  We also learned about the Conversion of Saint Paul this week.

Language Arts:  This week we worked on increasing our phonemic awareness with the /e/ sound at the beginning and middle of words.  Vowels are difficult to learn, but key to being able to decode words.  We used informational text to learn about fish and fishing.  Our vocabulary focus words this week were: oxygen and gills.  We finished reading our class read aloud, My Father’s Dragon, the first of a three book series.  We then started the second book, Elmer and the Dragon.  Ask your child the adventures Elmer had on Wild Island.

Math:  In Unit 5 we will be working with addition, as well as how to use addition to solve a subtraction problem.  To be successful we first need to have a good understanding of which number in an equation is greater.  By counting on from the greatest number it is easier to solve addition equations.  As you work with your child, help them recognize that by adding (or putting together) numbers, the sum has to be greater.

COMING UP:

Friday, January 27       Report Cards

 

January 29-February 3  CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK!

Sunday – 11:00 Mass; 12:00-1:00 Open House

Monday – National Day of Service (make care packages for 1^st responders)

Tuesday – Akron Fire Department

Wednesday – Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District

Thursday – Candlemas

Friday – Thank you Assembly with Priests & First Responders