Dietzel Diary - Week of April 9, 2018

Dietzel Diary

News from Kindergarten ~ Saint Paul School

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Week of April 9, 2018

Welcome back from our Easter Break!  We jumped right back into learning new things in math, reading and writing this week.  Our class also worked on the bulletin board by the office by making spring flowers as part of a science experiment about absorption.  We watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder with our 1^st and 2^nd grade friends.  Watching the movie helped us appreciate and enjoy the school musical, Wonka, Jr.  Our 4^th – 8^th grade Drama Club did an awesome job!  We are excited to come back over the weekend to see it again AND take a chance at winning a Golden Homework Ticket!

Religion:  We learned that Mass is a prayer of thanks for God’s love.

Language Arts:  This week we worked on identifying words with beginning, middle and ending /m/ sounds.  We also practiced recognizing when the end of a sentence needs a period or an exclamation mark.  As we are writing our sentences we are also working hard at remembering to put space between each word.
Math:  This week we started our new unit focused on 2-dimensional shapes.  We identified and named circles as having a curve, with no straight lines or vertices.  We worked with squares recognizing they have four equal sizes and four vertices.  Triangles we identified as having three sizes and three vertices.
Science:  We finished our ocean unit by learning about the ocean environment.  We explored shells (love listening to the ocean in the conch shells), read about different types of ocean life, and plants.  We loved seeing so many of the things we learned about in Finding Dory!

 

COMING UP:

Language Arts—Our focus will be on P/p sounds at the beginning and end of words.  We will be learning about synonyms and antonyms for “big”.  Our memory word will be:  put.

Math—We will continue learning bout 2 dimensional shapes and how to describe them.  Our focus will be on triangles and rectangles.
Science—We will be learning about dinosaurs and making dioramas.

April 18          Field Trip—Rescheduled Akron Art Museum

April 19          K/1 Book Club
April 20          Walk-a-thon Rewards Day – details to follow!
April 22          Earth Day; FREE activities Kent State University, Stark Campus, N.Canton
April 26          K/1 Book Club

May 1            Field Trip—Main Akron Library – details to follow (cost will be $1.00)

May 3           NO SCHOOL FOR PreK & Kindergarten ONLY
May 9            Field Trip—Cleveland Zoo – details to follow! (cost TBD)