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