Saint Paul Kindercubs: March 2017

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Dietzel Diary - Week of March 20, 2017

Dietzel Diary

News from Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School

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Week of March 20, 2017

This was a fun, busy week. We started the week by attending Mass in honor of the Feast of Saint Joseph. On Tuesday we went to Adoration, which is a sign of devotion to and worship of Jesus, who is believed to be present Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity, under the appearance of the consecrated host. We watched the movie, Nim’s Island, with our 4^th grade friends. We compared and contrasted the movie against the book. We had a great time watching the school production of School House Rocks, Jr. I hope you can join us this weekend!

School House Rock, Jr!

March 24 & 25 @ 7:00; March 26 @ 2:00

Religion: This week in addition to learning about Saint Joseph, we learned that we are all friends of Jesus. When we gather in Church we celebrate and thank God.

Language Arts: This week we identified and associated pictures that started with /r/. We worked with word families, ‘ub, ‘ag, ‘ug. We worked on comprehension skills by reading a rebus story. We used comprehension skills by making predictions, sequencing events, recognizing cause and effect, determining important ideas, and drawing conclusions. We worked with vocabulary words: many, few, some, plenty, and phrases: a pinch of; and a bunch of.

Math: This week we focused on reading, writing, and counting numbers 11-14.

We also worked with solving story problems using counters and 10 frames.

Science: We learned about ocean life. We have been reading fiction and non-fiction ocean books. We have been exploring animal life and the environment. We have been exploring lots of different seashells. We really enjoyed being able to hear the ocean in the large conch shells.

COMING UP:

Language Arts—Reading and writing N/n/ words; punctuation focus: exclamation and question marks.

Math—Compose and decompose numbers 15-18.

Fri, March 24 Report Cards

Wed, March 29 Book Club

Fri, April 7 FIELD TRIP: Akron Library

SPRING BREAK: April 14-21, 2017

Dietzel Diary - Week of March 13, 2017

Dietzel Diary

News from Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School

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Week of March 13, 2017

Well this turned out to be a really quick week! Even though we had two unexpected snow days, we accomplished quite a bit. We wrapped up our studies of our five senses. Your child should be able to tell you each of their senses and how we use them. We had so much fun celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day on Friday! We read stories about shamrocks and leprechauns. In Religion class we even learned that there was a real Saint Patrick! We started a new read-aloud with our 4^th grade friends. We are reading the Cricket in Times Square. It is a Newbery Honor Book about a streetwise city mouse.

Religion: This week we learned about Saint Patrick. He lived in Ireland a long time ago. When he was young he was kidnapped by Irish pirates. He eventually escaped and returned to Britain where he became a cleric. He then returned to Ireland to help the people of Northern and Western Ireland.

Language Arts: This week we continued blended sounds to decode words, practicing encoding words beginning and ending with B/b/ sounds. Our weekly reading books will be adventures our SuperKid friends have. Please practice reading the story with your child each night. The books need to be returned to school every day until we put a sticker on it. Typically we will get a new story each Monday. Once everyone in the reading group can fluently read the story, we will get a new book.

Math: This week we continued working with taking away. Subtraction is a bit more difficult and everyone can use as much practice as possible. Consider playing a card game by dealing two cards to each player. The two cards are then subtracted from each other, and the person with the greater number wins all the cards.

COMING UP:

Language Arts—Reading and writing R/r/ words; comprehension strategies— sequencing events, making predications, recognizing cause and effect, determining important ideas, and drawing conclusions using prior knowledge and picture clues.

Fri, March 17 End of 3^rd Quarter, Scholastic Orders Due; Saint Patrick’s Day

Mon, March 20 Mass (Feast of St. Joseph)

Wed, March 22 Book Club

Fri, March 24 Report Cards

Wed, March 29 Book Club

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

Friday, March 10, 2017

Akron Art Museum Field Trip

We learned about shapes, lines, and color in art.

Dietzel Diary - Week of March 6, 2017

Dietzel Diary

News from Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School

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Week of March 6, 2017

We had a very busy week in Kindergarten! We have had a lot of fun exploring our senses. This week we focused on touch, hearing, and sight. We really used our sense of sight when we visited the Akron Art Museum with our 3^rd and 4^th grade friends. Our class explored Art Recipes: Line, Shape &Color. We learned about these three important art elements and how artists use them to create a wide variety of “flavors” and “visual treats.” We started reading Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White. We are having fun learning about life on a farm. Ask your child about Wilbur and his friend Charlotte.

Religion: This week we that Jesus is a friend who welcomes new friends. We understand that Jesus is our friend.

Language Arts: This week we blended sounds to decode words, practicing encoding words beginning and ending with B/b/ sounds. We practiced adding “s” to the end of words and understanding that the plural of words means any quantity more than one. We have been practicing using our skills of segmenting sounds to help us read and spell words. We worked on our comprehension strategies using predictions by generating questions, draw conclusions, using prior knowledge, and understanding characters.

Math: This week we continued using expressions to represent subtraction within 5. We are using 10-frames and counters to solve subtraction problems. We used ourselves to use the strategy “act it out” to understand some of the equations we are solving.

COMING UP:

Language Arts—Reading and writing B/b/ words; adding ‘s’ to the end of words; sight word ‘of’; comprehension strategies—making predictions, draw conclusions, understanding characters.

Math—Decomposing numbers within 8; subtraction within 5.

Fri, March 10 FAMILY DANCE! Boeke Hall

Sun, March 12 Daylight Savings “Spring ahead”

Wed, March 15 NO BOOK CLUB!

Fri, March 17 End of 3^rd Quarter, Scholastic Orders Due; Saint Patrick’s Day

Wed, March 22 Book Club

Wed, March 29 Book Club

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