Dietzel Diary - Week of February 19, 2018

Dietzel Diary

News from Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School

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Week of February 19, 2018

This was a short week, but very productive.  We worked very hard to complete our poetry book before the deadline for the publisher.  We are very excited to see our words and illustrations in print!  We learned about President’s Day by learning more about two of our great presidents – Washington and Lincoln.  We read several books and looked at lots of pictures of important American Symbols.

Religion:  This week we discovered that Jesus loves children and that people everywhere are God’s children.  We discussed that all people are children of God and that we can have fun together.

Language Arts:  This week 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.

Science:  This week we started learning about our 5 senses.  Our focus has been on touch and hearing.  We brainstormed lots of words to describe how things feel, such as soft, rough, hard, sticky, hot and cold.  We then sorted different items by how they felt and graphed our results.  While learning about our sense of hearing we listened to lots of different animal sounds.  We were really surprised to hear what a hippopotamus and zebra sound like!  We then made shakers (you’re welcome), and practiced our “rhythm”.  It was lots of fun singing and dancing while using our shakers.

COMING UP:

Language Arts:  Focus on initial B/b sounds,  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 2          Read Across America; Dr. Seuss’ Birthday

Please let me know if you would like to read your favorite Dr. Seuss book to the class on Friday, March 2.