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!