Mrs. Koch’s Kindergarten

 

 

 

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Kindergarten News from Mrs. Koch

 

May 16, 2008

                 

I’m looking forward to seeing many, if not all of you at the Walden Auction tomorrow night.  The auction is always fun and such a great way to support and benefit our school.

 

Language Arts:

We finished our last theme in our reading program this week.  Next week we will be reviewing our Alphafriends and reading and writing our word wall words.  Please, please, please read and write with your child this summer.  The writing is just as important as the reading.  Encourage them to keep writing in their Journals.  They can do it on their own and use their best guess spelling along with what they have learned about phonics.  I will be sending home a list of the word wall words for reading and writing practice during the summer.  Reading and writing during the summer will definitely benefit your child.

 

Math:

We have been working on place value and time this week.  We did some activities meant to deepen your child’s understanding of place value using craft sticks to represent 10s and 1s.  We also practiced skip counting by fives and tens.  Practice skip counting this summer with your child using money.  It would be a great way to review skip counting as well as money value and coin recognition.  We also started “Time” this week.  In kindergarten we introduce time but do not expect the children to master it.  Children will be learning to tell time in grades 1-3.  This week our focus was on the hour hand and developing an understanding of how long an hour is.  We made individual clocks using paper plates (just like you did in kindergarten or first grade).  We only put on the hour hand and next week we will add the minute hand.  We practiced writing numbers 1-110; another activity that would benefit your child this summer.

 

Dates to Remember:

  • May 17 – Walden Auction
  • May 26 – Memorial Day – No school
  • May 27 – High School Graduation – 7:00 at St. Matthews Episcopal Church on Hubbards Lane
  • May 28 – LS field trip to Conner Prairie
  • May 29 – LS Pizza Party and Ice Cream Social – Last day of classes
  • May 30 – Lower School Awards Day and Program – This is for all lower school children and parents.  There will be more information forthcoming. 

 

Have a wonderful weekend!