Rocket News – Looking at our students now, it is amazing to see how their skills have developed and grown since the beginning of school. It is hard to believe we are halfway done with the school year.
The kindergartners are fortunate to see awesome plays at the LTCA. We enjoyed Tomas and the Library Lady and soon Madeline & the Bad Hat.
We had a cozy December singing in the music concert, making gingerbread houses, and having pajama day watching the Polar Express. During January we have been completing several assessments and impressed by how many of the scores are climbing. When it was Martin King Jr.’s birthday, we learned about some important African American people including Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, and Harriet Tubman.
The kindergarten classes will be sliding right into February down the tubing slope at Bruce Mound, if we can get a little snow! We hope that the temperature will be just right for having outdoor fun and learning about gravity, resistance, and friction. The 100th day party will be exciting with fantastic projects done by the students and dressing up as 100 year olds. During February, we will be working hard on our writing skills addressing letters to our families. We will visit the post office and learn how our mail is sorted and delivered.
In the coming months we will continue to read books for our “Owl” About Reading incentive program.
We have been traveling with Jack and Annie in the Magic Tree House series visiting castles, traveling on pirate ships, having tea in Japan, and swinging on vines in the Amazon. In between our adventures, we are reading and sounding out more words to write sentences and stories. We are learning about beginning, ending, and middle sounds. Our work with word families has moved us into making rhymes as well as making books and reading to each other. We are counting to higher numbers and learning about ten frames and measurement.
Submitted by the Kindergarten teachers
-Ms. Tomke, Mrs. Bezlyk, and Mrs. Wolf
Author: News Desk
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