SAINT PAUL KINDERCUBS Educating in the light of Christ
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Dietzel Diary - Week of April 10, 2017
Dietzel Diary
News from
Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School
http://kindercubs-saintpaul.blogspot.com
Week
of April 10, 2017
This
was such a fun, busy week in kindergarten!
We finished up our first Superkids Club book. The SuperKids are showing us lots of
different ways to go on adventures with our friends. They are very good at using their
imagination! We started a new unit in
math – geometry! We are starting with
flat shapes and will move into 3D shapes after our break. This week we participated in the Student
Council sponsored service project. We
decorated placemats for a local nursing home.
We decorated them for spring and Easter.
Holy Thursday Retreat: We started our retreat with a prayer
service. As a part of the service 12 of
our students had their feet washed, much like Jesus washed the feet of the 12
disciples. William represented our class
– great job! After the prayer service we
broke up into four groups of students Grade K – 8th grade to visit
stations set up throughout the school and church.
Station
1: The Lost Sheep (Luke 15:1-7)
“Then
Jesus told them this story: If any of you has a hundred sheep, and one of them
gets lost, what will you do? Won't you leave the ninety-nine in the field and
go look for the lost sheep until you find it? And when you find it, you will be
so glad that you will put it on your shoulder 6and carry it home. Then you will
call in your friends and neighbours and say, "Let's celebrate! I've found
my lost sheep." Jesus said, "In the same way there is more happiness
in heaven because of one sinner who turns to God than over ninety-nine good
people who don't need to."
Station
2: Loaves and fish (Mark 6:34-44)
“After Jesus had crossed the Sea of Galilee, a
large crowd followed him, because they knew he had healed many sick
people. Jesus climbed a mountain with
his disciples, and he could see that the crowd had gotten very large. Jesus could see that the people were
hungry. He said to Philip, “Where can we
buy enough food for them to eat?” Philip just shook his head and said, “Two
hundred days’ wages work of food would not be enough for each of them to have a
little (bit).” Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Jesu, “There is a boy
here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are they for so
many?” Jesus told his disciples “Have the people recline.” There was a large,
grassy filed that was clear and flat enough for all of the people, which
numbered about 5,000. Jesus took the
food that the boy had, said a prayer of thanks and had his disciples start
passing out the bread and fish. As
Jesus gave them food, they walked through the crowd and gave it to anyone who
wanted, as much as they were able to eat.
When the disciples finished, there was enough food for everyone and there
were still uneaten portions. The Jesus
said, “Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted.”
Station
3: Seeds on Good Soil (Mark 4:1-9)
“Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so
large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the
people were along the shore at the water’s edge. He taught them many things by parables, and
in his teaching said: “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell
along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not
have much soil. It sprang up quickly,
because the soil was shallow. But when
the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had
no root. Other seed fell among thorns,
which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain. Still other see fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some
multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.” Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear,
let them hear.””
Station
4: Jesus calls disciples (Matthew
4:18-22)
“As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two
brothers, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net
into the sea—for they were fishermen. And
he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fish for people.” Immediately
they left their nets and followed him. As
he went from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his
brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he
called them. Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed
him.”
COMING UP:
SPRING BREAK: April 14-21, 2017
Sun, April 16 Easter
Sat, April 22 Earth
Day; EarthFest at the Berea Fairgrounds
Wed, April 26 LAST
BOOK CLUB!!
Fri, April 28 Spring
Spectacular!
Thurs, May 4 NO SCHOOL FOR KINDERGARTEN –
Kindergarten screening
Thurs, May 11 Art
Show (information to follow)
AFTER
BREAK WE WILL BE ATTENDING 8:30 MASS EVERY FRIDAY
Friday, April 7, 2017
Dietzel Diary - Week of April 3, 2017
Dietzel Diary
News from
Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School
http://kindercubs-saintpaul.blogspot.com
Week
of April 3, 2017
This
was another busy, fun week in kindergarten. We were really excited that the flower bulbs
we planted in the fall have come up in our flower beds next to the gym! We have
been learning about the 3R’s – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. While reading This is Our Earth written by Laura Lee Benson, we learned that it
is important to respect and reduce the amount of natural resources we use –
even as kindergarteners! We can turn off
the lights when we leave a room, turn the water off as we brush our teeth, and
ride our bike or walk instead of driving places. In the book Once I Was a Cardboard Box – But Now I’m a Book About Polar Bears! by
Anton Poitlier was made entirely from recycled materials. The book had wonderful information and
pictures about polar bears. But, on each
page was a cartoon strip that explained the link between recycling and the
environment.
Although
the weather was less than desirable, it was fun having a chance to ride on the
Metro Bus to the main Akron library. At
the library we read books with the librarian, made a craft, and had a tour of
the Children’s Library.
Religion: This week we learned that prayer flows for
our thankfulness for God’s love. We
started learning about the Passion of Jesus.
We had an opportunity to walk the Stations of the Cross with Fr. Pfeiffer,
3rd and 4th grade.
Language
Arts: This week
we worked on blending sounds to decode words.
We focused on associating picture names with initial M/m/. We worked on increasing our comprehension
skills by using prior knowledge, generating questions and to make
predictions. We focused on memory words:
no, of, I.
Math: This week we focused on reading, writing, and
counting numbers 16-19. We used several techniques
to help us count accurately to 20.
COMING UP:
Language
Arts—Reading and writing N/n/ words; synonyms & antonyms
Math—Geometry – two dimensional shapes
Sun, April 9 Palm
Sunday
Wed, April 12 K/1
Book Club
SPRING BREAK: April 14-21, 2017
Sun, April 16 Easter
Sat, April 22 Earth
Day; EarthFest at the Berea Fairgrounds
Wed, April 26 LAST
BOOK CLUB!!
Thurs, May 4 NO SCHOOL FOR KINDERGARTEN –
Kindergarten screening
Thurs, May 11 Art
Show (information to follow)
Dietzel Diary - Week of March 27, 2017
Dietzel Diary
News from
Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School
http://kindercubs-saintpaul.blogspot.com
Week
of March 27, 2017
We
had so much fun this week exploring and learning about ocean life. We learned that a group of fish is called a
school, a group of whales are called a pod, and a group of sea otters are
called a raft. We also learned that a
baby shark is called a pup! We learned
that ocean environments include plants, coral, and sand. We also learned about different ways animals use
camouflage to survive. We used the
information we learned to create ocean environment pictures. We read A
House for Hermit Crab and made puppets so we could reenact the story. We finished up our week by watching Finding Dory.
Religion: This week we discovered the Bible is God’s
storybook. We understand that Jesus told
stories that reveal God’s love. We
recognized that we listen to stories of God’s love at Mass. Father Pfeiffer met with us in the church to
explain Stations of the Cross. We
learned that there are 14 stations. The
stations are a series of images depicting Jesus on the day of his
crucifixion. We practiced walking the
stations and saying prayers.
Language
Arts: This week
we identified and associated pictures with the initial, medial and final /n/
sound. We worked on writing sentences;
focusing on writing letters in words next to each other, and putting space
between words. We worked with positional
words: on, in. We focused our comprehension strategies by building
background using prior knowledge, answering questions about a story, compare
and contrast, and recognizing idioms.
Please help your child remember to bring their reading books back to
school each day until they receive a stamp on the front of the book.
Math: This week we focused on reading, writing, and
counting numbers 1-17. We practiced
solving problems by using different strategies.
We used draw a picture and used objects to represent numbers. We are learning to recognize number words
11-17. We are doing a great job counting
backwards from 20!
COMING UP:
Language
Arts—Reading and writing M/m/ words; word families
–ent, -ut.
Math—Compose and decompose numbers 18-19; story problem strategies.
Wed, April 5 K/1
Book Club
Fri, April 7 FIELD
TRIP: Akron Library
Wed, April 12 K/1
Book Club
SPRING BREAK: April 14-21, 2017
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