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!