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