Saint Paul Kindercubs: February 2017

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Friday, February 24, 2017

Dietzel Diary - Week of February 20, 2017

Dietzel Diary

News from Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School

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Week of February 20, 2017

This was a short week having Monday off for President’s Day. We learned about why we celebrate President’s Day, focusing on President Washington and President Lincoln. We also learned about what the President does and what patriots are. We located Washington, DC on a map. We learned that history tells the story of people and things that occurred in the past.

We completed our read aloud, My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett. The book was three separate stories, My Father’s Dragon, Elmer and the Dragon, and The Dragons of Blueland. Be sure to ask your child about Elmer’s adventures!

Religion: This week we learned that Jesus is a sign of God’s love and that Jesus loves all children. We discovered that Jesus loves children and that we are all children of God and we have fun together.

Language Arts: This week we continued working with H/h/ at the beginning of words. We focused on increasing our comprehension skills by building vocabulary, using prior knowledge, making predications, and recognizing cause and effect. We worked with positional (under, over, next to, above) words while using riddle clues. Our SuperKid friend is Hot Rod. He loves to drive … fast!

Math: This week we continued working with problem solving by creating and solving addition problems. We worked with number pairs that equal 8, 9, 10.

Science: We created our own cars as a part of learning about wheels and axles. We had lots of fun racing them.

COMING UP:

Language Arts: Focus on initial and medial U/u/ sounds. We are also working on writing sentences to describe our illustrations.

Math: We will be learning about subtraction.

Read Aloud: We will be starting Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White.

Tues, Feb 28 Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday)

Wed, March 1 Ash Wednesday

Field Trip Permission slips due (NO cost for this trip J)

Thurs, March 2 Read Across America; Dr. Seuss’ Birthday

Please let me know if you would like to read your favorite Dr. Seuss book to the class on Thursday, March 2.

Fri, March 10 FIELD TRIP—Akron Art Museum

March 24 & 25 @ 7:00; March 26 @ 2:00 School House Rocks!

Happy Valentine Day!

Val

We are 100 Days Smarter!

Dietzel Diary - Week of February 13, 2017

Dietzel Diary

News from Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School

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Week of February 13, 2017

Although this was a short week, we were very busy. Thank you to everyone that sent in goodies for our Valentine Party. We had so many goodies that we decided to keep some for the next day, too. On Tuesday we learned about a new fundraiser for our school. We are selling Harry London chocolates. Monies earned by the school will be used for enrichment programs for students, including helping to defray field trip costs. The candy sale only lasts for 2 weeks. Please remember that in order for your child to participate you must return the permission slip SIGNED. You then become responsible for selling the 48 bars in the box. All monies are due by TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28.

Religion: This week we learned that Jesus is a sign of God’s love and that Jesus loves all children. We also learned about Saint Valentine and that Valentine’s Day is a time to share love.

Language Arts: This week we worked with H/h/ at the beginning of words. We focused on increasing our comprehension skills by recognizing the title of a story, and how the title can give us clues about the story. We also worked with activating prior knowledge, making predictions, as well as cause and effect.

Math: This week we continued working with problem solving by creating and solving addition problems. We continued to work with the commutative property and how it applies to addition (2 + 3 = 5 the same as 3 + 2 = 5). We are working on decomposing numbers by working with number pairs that equal 6-9. We are continuing to work hard at counting backward from 20.

COMING UP:

Thurs, February 16 Conferences (3:00-7:30)

Fri, February 17 NO SCHOOL

Mon, February 20 NO SCHOOL

Wed, March 1 Ash Wednesday

Field Trip Permission slips due (NO cost for this trip J)

Thurs, March 2 Read Across America; Dr. Seuss’ Birthday

Fri, March 10 FIELD TRIP—Akron Art Museum

Sunday, February 12, 2017

Dietzel Diary - Week of February 6, 2017

Dietzel Diary

News from Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School

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Week of February 6, 2017

We had so much fun celebrating the 100^th day of school! We counted … and counted … and counted. We even made a chart showing how we can count by 1’s, 5’s and 10’s. We read books and sang the 100 Days song. We drew pictures and wrote about what we will look like when we are 100 years old. This week we finished our unit on insects. We learned that an insect is a bug, but not all bugs are insects. Insects have six legs, three body parts (head, thorax, abdomen), and an exoskeleton. We finished our studies by watching the movie A Bugs Life, with popcorn and M&Ms, of course!

Religion: This week we learned that there are signs of God’s love all around us. We appreciate and support these signs. We also discovered that Jesus is the greatest sign of God’s love.

Language Arts: This week we worked with E/e/ at the beginning and in the middle of words. Our vocabulary focus words this week were: riddle, sledding. We focused on increasing our comprehension skills by discussing setting and using prior knowledge to infer information we hear in a story. We also discussed the difference between fiction and non-fiction. We finished reading our class read aloud, Elmer and the Dragon, the second of a three book series. We then started the last book, The Dragons of Blueland. Ask your child how Elmer got home from rescuing the baby dragon.

Math: This week we continued working with problem solving by creating and solving addition problems. We worked a lot with the commutative property applies to addition (2 + 3 = 5 the same as 3 + 2 = 5). We are doing a great job counting by 5’s, and we are working hard at counting backward from 20.

COMING UP:

Tues, February 14 Valentine’s Day (dress down in pink, red or Valentine attire

and jeans); Harry London candy sale assembly (info to follow)

Wed, February 15         School Mass
Thurs, February 16        Conferences (3:00-7:30)
Fri, February 17              NO SCHOOL

Mon, February 20         NO SCHOOL

Wed, March 1               Ash Wednesday
                                        Field Trip Permission slips due (NO cost for this trip J)
Thurs, March 2               Read Across America; Dr. Seuss’ Birthday

Fri, March 10                  FIELD TRIP—Akron Art Museum