Mrs. Woyt’s Blog

Religion: We will finish up our unit on parts of the mass. Your child will bring home their booklet next Monday. I encourage you to go through it with your child, then bring it with you to mass when you go to follow along.

Reading: We got our first letter person take home book today. Please look at it and read it with your child. Make sure and read the family letter that came home with it. We will finish up Mr. M’s activities this week.

Math: This week we will: identify most and fewest on a graph, identify shapes by three attributes - shape, color and size, match number cards to a set of objects, and create and read an AB color pattern.

Reminders: Oct. 7 is Cici’s Pizza night, Oct. 9 is green and white day, Oct. 16-17 there is no school for MEA

**TOMORROW WILL BE GREEN AND WHITE DAY, for homecoming**

Religion: We will be discussing the following parts of the mass: Agreeing, Praying, Caring, and Honoring.

Reading: Tomorrow we will meet the first Letter Person - Mr. M. Don’t share this info with your child. Please wait until after school tomorrow to talk about Mr. M. Ask your child what is special about him (he has a munching mouth).

Math: We will be sorting by color and making a graph, acting out story problems, identifying circles and rectangles, and ordering numbers 1 - 5 and finding missing numbers. There will also be another oral assessment - counting by one’s to 100.

*Remember to practice reading the Every Day Word cards several times a week. Have your child use them in a sentence, too.

Reading:These are the Every Day Words we have learned - I, like, to, and. You should have cut these words from the packet and hung them somewhere your child sees them everyday or use them as flashcards.

Religion:We are still working on the parts of the mass unit. This week we will cover Preparing, Giving, Thanking and Remembering.

Math:We will work on counting objects to 10, patterning, making designs using pattern blocks and sorting objects by color.

* I want to thank all of the families who were able to order from the book orders. I was able to get lots of points to buy reading materials for our classroom library.

In Religion this week we are working on our unit about parts of the mass. In Reading we are getting ready to meet the Letter People. This week we will start learning about Every Day Words, also known as sight words. The first two will be I & like. Your child will be bring home a Family Activity page that gives ideas on how to practice these with your child. Your child will also bring home a packet with all the every day words for the whole school year. For this week you will only use the words I & like. This week I will also start doing individual assessments of the students. In math we will be using linking cubes, making an AB pattern, making a graph, and use positional words: over, under, on top of, behind, etc. I will also be doing the first oral math assessment with the students.

~REMINDERS: Book orders are due back on Friday, 9-19-08. Please return the 2 Highlights forms, signed, even if you don’t want to subscribe. I can earn things for our classroom for every form returned. Please return the Rake-a-Thon field trip permission slips. These were handed out on Welcome Back Night.

*A notice from the cafeteria: Please check your child’s account regularly. If it gets too low your child will not be able to have milk at snack time and will only get a cheese sandwich and milk at lunch time. Also, if your qualify for free or reduced lunches, there is still a regular price charge for milk at snack time.

**Curriculum Night: On 9-11-08 I will be talking on my classroom from 6:00-6:20 about what I will be teaching this school year. Then at 6:50 there is an all parent meeting in the gym. This will be a great chance for your to really see what your child will be learning. I look forward to seeing  you!

*Green and White Day/ PHT Meeting: Also on 9-11-08 there is a PHT meeting in the evening and it is green and white day. The students do not have to wear their uniform as long as they are wearing mostly green and/or white. Jeans are allowed.

*Rake-a-Thon Kick Off: We will kick off the start of the rake-a-thon this Friday, 9-12-08, in the gym during the school day.

~In reading this week we will be practicing our listening skills. We will read the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and we will hunt for letters in magazines.

~In religion we are learning about the mass. Ask your child what we discussed each day. They will bring home a booklet at the end of the unit.

Our program will be tomorrow (6-4-08) at 11:00 in our classroom. Hope you all can make it!! Remember, the students are dismissed at 12:00(after lunch). You are welcome to bring your child home after our program.

Well, this is the last blog of Kindergarten 07-08. Your children sure have come a long way this year! They have learned their numbers and how to count, their letters and sounds and even learned to read!! I am so proud of all their hard work and you should be proud of all the hard work you did at home as well!! This was a short week and we had a field trip. They really seemed to have a lot of fun at the zoo. Thank you to all the parents and families who were able to come and enjoy the beautiful day with us. We couldn’t have asked for better weather.  This week we continued to talk about faith in God. We played bingo to practice the numbers 11-30, and we practiced working with 3-D shapes.We had our last two Letter People come to visit - Mr. Q and Mr. X.

*REMINDERS We will be having a short “graduation” program on Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. in our room. I hope you can all come and enjoy the successes of your child in Kindergarten! There will be lunch served that day, and the day will be ending at 12:00. You are welcome to take your child home after the program or after lunch. They can also go home their regular way if that is easier for you and your family. Remember, no ED’s next week.  Monday is our track & field day. The children may be out of uniform. Shorts and t-shirts are OK, but NO tank tops. Please send sun screen that can be easily applied. The continuous spray kind works GREAT. Also, the last day of school is a non uniform day.

In reading this week we learned about Ms. K and her kaboom kick and Ms. Y and her yodeling yawn. We only have two Letter People left! How exciting!! In religion we learned about faith - believing in God even though we cannot see or touch him. We heard two stories about faith: Jesus Calms the Storm and Noah and the Ark. Ask your child to tell you how these stories show faith in God. In math we did some more practice with tangrams, we used a number line to find greater than and less than. Tomorrow we will play bingo to practice identifying the numbers 11-30. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday weekend with friends and family!!

**REMINDERS Shorts cannot be worn to church on Fridays, but they can bring shorts and change into them after mass. Permission slips for next Wednesday’s field trip need to be in by tomorrow (5-23). Our track and field day is Monday June 2nd. It will start at 12:00 and go until the end of the day. Mr. J. Still needs some more parent help. Please call the school or send a note if you can help out. On the last day of school we will have a “graduation” ceremony. It will be at 11:00 followed by lunch and then the children are done for the day, and for the year. Hope you can all make it!

What a beautiful week we had! The weather has been great! I hope you and your family were able to get out and enjoy it! This week we continued with Ms. J and her jingle jingle jacket and then Mr. C visited. He has a colossal cap and is very shy, but he is trying to not be shy, sometimes. In math we worked with a new math tool called tangrams. They are lots of fun to make designs with. In religion we learned that Jesus had 12 special friends called apostles to help him teach others about God the Father. And, that we are disciples who continue to teach others about God.

**REMINDERS Mr. J still needs parent help for our track and field day on June 2nd. It would be from 10:30 until the end of the day. If you can help please call and let him know. Also, all library books are due next Thursday May 22nd. If you still have books out please send them back no later than that date. And, lastly, please send in your child’s field trip permission slip and money by next Friday. If you would like to ride the bus down with us, let me know on the slip. There is limited space and is on a first come, first serve basis. If we run out of room you are welcome to drive down and meet us there.

**We will celebrate summer birthdays these last weeks of school. I have designated these days for each summer birthday: Sam - May 13th, Lexi - May 15th, Tony - May 19th, Samira - May 21st, Kathlyn - May 23rd, Maggie - May 27th, Isabel - May 29th, Alex - June 2nd and Teresa - June 3rd. Your child may bring a treat to share with the class, if they want to, on that day.

**The last days of school are quickly approaching! Here are some things you need to know. The last day of school is June 4th and it is a half day, the students are dismissed at noon that day. Also we will be having a small “graduation” ceremony at 11:00 a.m. The children will sing a few songs and I will hand out their certificates of graduation. Bring your cameras and kleenex! Also, the K-3rd graders will be participating in track and field day on Monday June 2nd. I will have more details at a later date.

In math this week we added the face cards to our card game of war. Play this game with your child. It helps them learn about ordering numbers, to learn great than and less than. In reading we were visited by LetterLight E who has exercise energy and Ms. J who has a jingle jingle jacket. Now we have all of the LetterLights (vowels). In religion we continued to discuss Jesus’ miracles. It was great to see the many families who were able to attend the first annual Arts Festival Tuesday night. There were a lot of interesting and wonderful works on display by all the school children.