Newsletter 5: Week ending September 27

Highlights

It was a great 4-day week! On Thursday morning we visited Degraaf Nature Center. It was a beautiful day! We learned about several animals and how they use their senses to survive. Then we used our 5 senses on a hike. Thank you so much, everyone, for helping that day by driving or bringing snack! We ended our week in the media center with all our K-5 friends and a “praise party” led by Mr. Meyer. It is wonderful to see your children praising their Savior!


Important Dates

  • October 1: Picture Day for our class
  • October 23-25: No School (teacher professional development)
  • October 21-22: Parent Teacher Conferences (more details coming later)

Reminders

  • Picture Day: October 1st is picture day! Please turn in the envelope with your child’s name on it whether or not you will order pictures as they are helpful for spelling names correctly and getting everyone in the correct class for the composite and the yearbook. Kindergarteners do not take a formal class picture, but rather have a class composite and individual pictures. Even though yearbooks don’t come until the spring this is the time to order! 
  • Classroom Donations: I am looking for a few classroom donations please. Visit the SIgnUp Genius using this link if you are interested in donating to our class. Thank you!
  • Book It: Pizza Hut welcomes all families to participate in a reading incentive program called Book It. Your child has the opportunity to earn a free personal pizza by reading and logging their reading at home.  A short book before bedtime, devotions during dinner time, any reading at home counts. The goal is not really about the amount of time spent reading, but more that your child falls in love with books and is excited about reading. Please click here for the calendars and keep an eye out on the red folders for a hard copy sent home this coming week. This is an optional program.

Curriculum

Bible: We completed our unit on creation and every child took home their own creation book. This coming week we will talk about our need for God’s love as we learn about Adam and Eve and Noah.

Genesis 8:22 “Mientras la tierra exista habrá siembra y cosecha, frío y calor, verano e invierno, días y noches.”

“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”

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Literacy: Our linguistic focus this week was indefinite articles, un and una. In English this is like saying “a ___” as opposed to “the ___.” All nouns in Spanish have a gender. Masculine nouns use un and feminine nouns use una. We are excited to add these indefinite articles to our word wall!

  • Reading strategy: Determining importance of text
  • Read aloud: Clifford va a la escuela (Clifford Goes to School)
  • Vocabulary Words:
    • olfatear (to smell/sniff)
    • deslizado (slippery)
    • descubrir (discover)
    • precioso (precious)
    • curiosidad (curiosity)
    • meterse en lios (to get in trouble)
  • Phrase of the week: ¿Puedo tomar agua? (May I have a drink?)
  • Letter of the week: Uu
  • Words on the wall so far: un, una, la

Math: We finished more of our counting book. This is great practice on 1:1 correspondence. It is fun to see what your children choose to draw to illustrate each number. Next week we will finish these books and begin to talk about shapes. Look for circles, círculos, squares, cuadrados, and rectangles, rectángulos, around your home.

Writing Workshop: We continue to practice telling stories orally with a beginning, middle, and end. Next week we will begin to sketch our stories.

Exploring God’s World: Our science lessons this week were all at Degraaf Nature Center. We had fun using our senses to explore God’s creation on our hike. We also learned how God created animals to use their senses uniquely.

Up in Lights: This week the project pages went home with every student. We’re excited to start these presentations!

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