Miss Ryan & Mrs. Ford's Kindergarten: April 2023

Friday, April 28, 2023

Week of April 24th

Happy Friday Kindergarten!

We had an awesome week at school! The countdown to graduation is 24 days ... can you believe it?!

Our read alouds this week were Red Eyes or Blue Feathers, Chameleon, Chameleon, A Very Hungry Caterpillar, and Worrysaurus.

In ELA this week when reading Chameleon, Chameleon we focused on conclusions & monitoring our reading as a comprehension skill. We continue substituting, segmenting, and blending sounds to create and change CVC words. We enjoyed reading nonsense words as well! We practiced our sight words by spelling them and creating sentences. Our letter of the week was 'Zz'! We met our next letter person Mr. Z with Zipping Zippers! We completed our Mr. Z puppets and wrote in our journals. In math we continued through Ch. 10: Time. We learned about the seasons, how to read the calendar, compared time, and learned how to tell the time on the hour! In Religion we finished up learning about Baptism & learned all about St. Catharine of Siena in honor of her feast day tomorrow!

We 💗 our butterflies! As a group we named them Joey, Messi, Nemo, Rainy, and Sunny!

Next Week

We will begin crowning Mary! Next week will be Maggie, Andrew, Bruce, Lilly, and Tony!
Friday: PJ + Stuffed Animal + Movie Day!🎥🍿 The kids have filled up our compliment chart and won this as a reward! The kids are allowed to wear their PJs to school and bring in a stuffed animal. We will have a snack and watch a movie in the afternoon!

Looking Ahead....

Monday, May 8th: $1 Dress Down
Friday, May 12th: Mother's Day Luncheon 11:30-12:30! More information to come!

We hope you have a great weekend!

Best,

Miss Ryan & Mrs. Lowe

We love our Star Readers!!🌟📚

📙Star Reader Brennan reading us "Almost Spring"!

📘Star Reader Lilly reading us "I Love Pink!"

📗Star Reader Tuck reading us "Pig The Elf"!

Showing the halls how much we love reading!

We visited 4th Grade's Wax Museum & had a blast! We had so much fun learning about important figures in history! We especially loved seeing some older siblings!

Monday, April 24, 2023

Week of April 17th

Happy Monday!

I hope you all had a great weekend! We can't believe April is almost over - this year is flying by too fast!

In ELA last week we read "Oscar and the Frog" and "Zinnia's Flower Garden". During our readings we focused on visualizing and sequence of events. We discussed beginning, middle, and endings of the stories. We continue substituting, segmenting, and blending sounds to create and change CVC words. We review long and short vowels each week as well. Last week we learned also our diagraphs 'ch' 'ck' 'sh' 'wh' and 'th'! We practiced our sight words by rainbow writing, picking them out of a word jar, and matching words with a partner! Our letter of the week was 'Vv'! We met our next letter person Ms. V with a Vegetable Vest! We completed our Ms. V puppet and wrote in our journals. In math we took our Chapter 9: Money test - they did awesome!!! We have now moved into Chapter 10: Time. In Religion we talked about how at Baptism we became members of the church - thank you for sending in your children's Baptism pictures. The students loved guessing their friends baby pictures :)

We learned all about taking care of our Earth - reduce, reuse, recycle was our motto! We made awesome Seed balls and had a tree snack!

We are so proud of Owen reading his poem "In Spring" at SCAN on Friday!

Big news ... our caterpillars are now beautiful butterflies!!

We also filled up our compliment chart and earned a PJ + Movie + Stuffed Animal Day! We will schedule this for sometime next week - more info to come! (So proud of them!🎊)

This Week:

Friday: $1 Dress Down Day - all proceeds will benefit our sister school St. Martin de Porres. Also our April Birthday celebration!

Looking Ahead ...

First week of May we will begin Crowning Mary each day! The schedule was sent home last week.

Here's to a great week!🌞

~ Miss Ryan & Mrs. Lowe

We love our Star Readers! 🌟

📚Star Reader Tony reading us "Where Is The Green Sheep?"

📙Star Reader Henry reading us "Bath Time For Biscuit"!

📘Star Reader Grace reading us "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?"

📗Star Reader Beau reading us "I'm A Frog!"

📕Star Reader Trinity reading us "Lots of Hearts!"

Monday, April 17, 2023

Week of April 3rd and April 10th

Happy Monday!

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter break and weekend with your families! We loved getting back into our routines, playing with friends, and working hard last week! Recently we have been talking a lot about acting like big 1st graders and working toward that goal!

In ELA last week we read "Leo the Late Bloomer" and focused on story structure. We discussed characters, setting, problem, and solution! We continue each week substituting, segmenting, and blending sounds to create and change CVC words. We practiced our sight words by playing Tic Tac Toe! Our letter of the week was 'Ww'! We met our next letter person Ms. W with Wonderful Words! We completed our Ms. W puppet. In math we continued learning about money: counted on using dimes and quarters, fair trades, and comparing amounts!

We welcomed 5 new caterpillars into our room this week! They are currently moving their way to the top of the jar to form their chrysalis'! We began writing in our "Observation Journal" as a budding entomologist!

This Week:

Tuesday: Monthly School Mass hosted by 2nd Grade @ 9 AM
Friday: Earth Day Celebration! and SCAN - in the parish center from 6 PM - 9 PM
Please bring in a printed picture of your child's Baptism by Thursday. We will be learning about how we became members of the church this week!

Looking Ahead: