I praise God for another great week of  kindergarten! One of the biggest highlights this week was Grandparents Day. We’ve been talking lots in Bible about God being a covenant, faithful God. His faithfulness throughout the generations was clear as kindergarteners and grandparents/grandfriends worked and played together Friday morning. It was wonderful meeting many of your parents and I’m grateful for their support! Thank you to all of you as well for the parts you played in making the day so enjoyable! Thank you all for the donations of supplies, the prayers, the Gifts of Being Grand coordination, and to parents who donated their time and talents Friday morning at school!

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Important Dates

• Thursday, November 7: Picture retakes Please email me if your child is getting picture retakes. You will need to send in the old pictures as well. Thank you!
• Thursday, November 7: no PM bussing
• Friday, November 8: no AM or PM bussing

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Curriculum

Bible: We continue talking about God’s plan and provision for his people, this time in the story of Joseph. This coming week we’ll finish Joesph and move to Moses.

Genesis 28:15 Yo estoy contigo. Te protegeré por dondequiera que vayas, y te traeré de vuelta a esta tierra. No te abandonaré hasta cumplir con todo lo que te he prometido.

“I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you. 

Literacy:

Literacy: In grammar this week we learned how to change articles to match the number of nouns we are talking about. For example, el amigo means 1 friend and los amigos means more than 1 friend.

Daily 5 is also going really well! All 5 choices are open. This means your kindergarteners may choose between read to self, read to someone, work on writing, work with words, or listen to a book on the iPad. I started meeting with small groups and hope to continue this into next week! I love the moments I get to work with your children in small groups!

• Reading strategy: Making connections
• Word wall word: el papá (dad)
• Read aloud: Así Vamos a Escuela (review)
• Vocabulary Words:
  • disfrutar (to enjoy)
  • techos (roofs)
  • las zancadas (steps)
  • la campiña (countryside) *Some of our Kindergarten friends made connections between this word and where they live!
  • el titubeo (hesitation)
  • apurados (rushed, hurried)
  • los patines (skates)
• Phrase of the week: ¿Qué es eso?  (What’s that?)
• Letter of the week: Pp
• Words on the wall so far: el, él, no, la, si, sí, mamá, y, papá

Math: This week we reviewed unit 1 and took our first math test. Your kids did awesome! 🙂 This coming week we’ll look at bigger numbers (6-10) and learn to see them as groups of 5 and some “extras.”

Exploring God’s World: We culminated our PBL on maps by giving our grandparents/grandfriends tours of our school on grandparents day. A favorite spot to visit was the library. 🙂

Up in Lights:  Eleanor was up in lights this week! Thank you for sharing your favorite book, I Like Myself! This was a new one for me, but I hope to add it to our home library soon! We love who God created you to be, Eleanor! We’re so glad you came to ZCS this year!