Dietzel Diary - Week of February 26, 2018

Dietzel Diary

News from Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School

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Week of February 26, 2018

Thank you to everyone that helped make Dr. Seuss’ birthday so special.  On Friday we had a great time celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday.  We loved all the special readers that read a book to us.  We read Green Eggs and Ham; One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish; Fox in Socks; And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street; Wacky Wednesday; What Pet Should I Get; Oh Say Can You Say?; Go, Dog, Go!; Oh the Places You’ll Go!; Horton Hears a Who; and The Cat in the Hat.  Be sure to check out our blog for lots of pictures!

Religion:  This week we learned about Stations of the Cross, walking through the Stations in Church.  The Stations of the Cross are a 14-step Catholic devotion that commemorates Jesus Christ's last day on Earth as a man. The 14 devotions, or stations, focus on specific events of His last day, beginning with His condemnation.  At each station we read about a specific event from Christ's last day. We then recited specific prayers, and then moving to the next station.

Language Arts:  This week we continued working with initial B/b sounds.  We worked with identifying and practiced writing upper and lower case R/r/.  Our vocabulary focus words were: scrub, robins.  We are practicing associating pictures with words.  We are doing such a great job writing complete sentences in our journals each morning. We are continuing to read Charlotte’s Web.  We are learning a lot about life on a farm.

Math:  This week we continued using expressions to represent subtraction within 5.  We are using 10-frames and counters to solve subtraction problems.  We are focused on reading our equations carefully to know whether we are supposed to add or subtract numbers.

Science:  This week we continued learning about our 5 senses.  Our focus has been on sight, taste and smell.  It took a few days, but we finally figured out what we could do to use all five of our senses at the same time (thanks Breylin).  We really enjoyed popping and eating popcorn!

COMING UP:

Language Arts:  Focus on initial R/r sounds.   Working with word families –ub, -ag, -ug.  Learning about synonyms.

Math—Representing, counting, and writing numbers 11-19.

Thurs, 3/8        K/1Book Club

Fri, 3/9             8:30 Mass
Thurs, 3/15      K/1Book Club
Fri, 3/16           Grades Close
Wed, 3/21      Field Trip: Akron Art Museum
Mon, 3/26      Report Cards