Dietzel Diary - Week of October 9, 2017

Dietzel Diary

News from Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School

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Week of October 9, 2017

A HUGE thank you to Erin Hardy who has agreed to be our room mother!  Please contact her directly with any questions about our Halloween Party.  You will be hearing from her about other events throughout the year.  We really enjoyed painting pictures this week.  We read a book called …Ish by Peter H. Reynolds.  Sometimes children get overly concerned about drawing things “just right”.  In the book …Ish Peter explains that we shouldn’t get hung up on making our art perfect, but rather how we see things and if we are happy with our work that’s what matters.  The class did a great job painting and making up creative titles for the work.  If you have an opportunity to visit, check out our paintings outside our classroom.  Please be aware that not all art will be sent home throughout the year.  I save some pieces for our Art Show in May.

Religion:  This week we learned about and made our own Rosary.  We will be using them every day during October, the Month of the Holy Rosary.

Language Arts:  This week we worked with beginning and middle /a/ sound words.  We met a new friend – Alf.  He loves adventure and animals!  We have had a fun week learning about adventures and using our imagination.  We even made a classroom picture book with each students’ story.  We reviewed vocabulary words: mountain, palm tree, alligator, ostrich, cave, and lion.  The comprehension skills we worked on were using illustrations to help understand a story.

Math:  This week we continued working with “same as”, “greater than” and “less than”.  We are working hard at being able to recall what number comes before and after another, without having to start counting at 1 each time.  This has been a very busy week learning lots of different types of math games.  We are working hard with number sense (our 100s chart is helpful), 1-to-1 correspondence (board games work great) and learning about “greater than”, “less than” and the “same as” (card games help).

Social Studies:   This week we talked about different ways we can be a good citizen, friend, student, family member.  We made a list of ways we can show responsibility and be helpful, like helping keep our rooms clean, set the table for dinner, and putting our clothes away.  We also discussed why we have rules and how they might be different at home and school.

 

COMING UP …

 

The Book Fair has been extended until TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17!!!

Thurs, 10/19/17    1^st K/1 Book Club Meeting

Fri, 10/20/17         Mass

Wed, 10/25/17    PreK-1^st Grade Field Trip to Kingsway Pumpkin Farm

Thurs, 10/26/17    Book Club Meeting

Fri, 10/27/17         1:30 HALLOWEEN PARTY & PARADE