Dietzel Diary - Week of January 22, 2018

Dietzel Diary

News from Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School

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Week of January 22, 2018

We have been having so much fun this week getting ready for Open House on Sunday and Catholic Schools Week.  We are doing a good job counting by 5’s, as well as counting backwards from 10.  Keep working with your child!  We had fun making a shoe so we can practice tying.  I know it’s a tough skill to learn, especially with so many shoes having Velcro, but it is an important skill for students to learn.  We have a wall of shoes congratulating those that are successful tying on their own.  I hope to see everyone’s shoe up there very soon!

Religion:  This week we learned to appreciate neighbors and community.  We learned that neighbors show God’s love and that neighbors are community members.  We also learned about the Conversion of Saint Paul this week.

Language Arts:  This week we worked on increasing our phonemic awareness with the /e/ sound at the beginning and middle of words.  Vowels are difficult to learn, but key to being able to decode words.  We focused on increasing our comprehension skills by discussing setting and using prior knowledge to infer information we hear in a story.  We also discussed the difference between fiction and non-fiction.

Math:  In Unit 5 we will be working with addition, as well as how to use addition to solve a subtraction problem.  We worked a lot with the commutative property that applies to addition (2 + 3 = 5 the same as 3 + 2 = 5).  We are doing a great job counting by 5’s, and we are working hard at counting backward from 20.

COMING UP:

Sun, January 28            11:00 MASS; 12:00-1:00 OPEN HOUSE & BOOK FAIR!

January 28-February 2  CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK!

Book Fair Sunday - Thursday

Monday – Poetry Day; Make Bookmarks for Seminarians

Tuesday – Candle decorating; Fun Festival planning

Wednesday – Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District

Thursday – Make cards for Seminarians

Friday – 6:00-7:30 Set up for Fun Fair!

Thurs, February 1          BOOK CLUB

Fri, February 2                Groundhog Day; 6:00-7:30 CSW Fun Fair!

Thurs, February 8          Book Club

Fri, February 9                Valentine’s Day Party