April 13, 2007

April 13, 2007

Dear Families,

During this week the students made Alphabet Books with the keywords on each page. Looking through this book this summer will help the boys and girls practice their sounds and remember the keywords. We read another booklet. It is called A Pup and a Cat. The kindergartners looked at numbers between 26 and 100 and practiced saying them. We practiced filling in the missing numbers on a worksheet, and this time the numbers went backwards! Laurie Schafer read a book about growing plants to the kindergartners. Then each child planted either a zucchini seed or zinnia seed. Centers included word bingo, buying items with nickels, painting zebras, the zoo kit, a zoo story on tape, and filling in the missing letter worksheet.

In the future, during sandal weather, please send extra socks with your kindergartner so that they can wear them with their gym shoes to gym class. Please send a sweatshirt or jacket to school. When we go outside for the very first recess, (when it is nice!) it tends to be a bit cool.

Please send a picture of your kindergartner to school. We will be making a special project with them so the picture will not return home in its original form.

Remember that the students do not have school Thursday, April 23 - Monday, April 27. That is Round Up vacation. School will resume on Monday, April 30th. During break it would be great if students would review birthdays, phone numbers, addresses, days of the week, months of the year, counting by tens and fives, counting to 100 by ones, and identifying coins and their values. Reading is also a terrific idea!

We currently have 2 mystery sweatshirts. They are both grey with long sleeves and the words “North Tama Redhawks” written in red across the front. One is a medium size, and the name was previously written on the tag in blue. The name has worn off. The other sweatshirt is also a medium size, and the name was previously written on the tag in black. Two families will be very happy to be reunited with these warm sweatshirts. Please help us solve this mystery!!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Ms. Howard, Mrs. Owens, Mrs. Herink, and Mrs. Pokorny

April 3, 2007

April 3, 2007

Dear Families,

We are sending this newsletter home early this week because Mrs. Owens and Ms. Howard will not be in school tomorrow, Wednesday, April 4th. Mrs. Owens is going out of town, and Ms. Howard will be attending a funeral. Mrs. Snow and Ms. Jill Svoboda will be the teachers on Wednesday.

We learned about the letter Zz this week. Now we know all the letters, and we will continue working on reading words! We made Zz booklets. Days of the week were reviewed by making little booklets. Zoos and zoo animals were discussed. We learned that s and h put together make one sound, and we learned the word she.

Students are dismissed one hour early tomorrow, Wednesday, April 4th. They do not have school on Thursday, April 5th through Monday, April 9th.

Sharing for the rest of the year is free choice. The Monday sharing kids may bring their sharing any day next week.

Kindergartners will have the week of April 23 - 27 off because of kindergarten round up. They will return on Monday, April 30th.

****We need a snapshot or school picture of every kindergartner for an art project in May. We would like you to send the picture as soon as possible! These will be used in a project so they will not be returned to you.****

Grandparent’s Days are scheduled for Wednesday, May 9th and Thursday, May 10th. Grandparents may attend either of those days. Official invitations will be decorated soon and sent home.

Have a fantastic weekend!

Ms. Howard, Mrs. Owens, Mrs. Pokorny,and Mrs. Herink