We have begun our unit on sea life in preparation for our trip to the New England Aquarium on Thursday, February 1st. Please don’t forget to send in the $12 to cover the cost of the trip (for students and chaperones). Checks should be made payable to Francis Wyman Kindergarten. We have three chaperones joining us for the trip. Thanks in advance to Mrs. Tedesco, Mrs. Nambooze, and Mr. Boossarangsi for your willingness to come!
The children made their own aquarium scenes and sea turtles, which look amazing hanging on our back wall. They are also working on an innovation of Eric Carle's, A House for Hermit Crab. We have been learning more about fascinating sea turtles and octopuses too!
The students continue to write in their journals and practice writing the lowercase letters. We will be learning the uppercase letters very soon. Although the children are more familiar and comfortable with these, we are spending quite a bit of time making sure they are forming the letters correctly. We encourage the children to use more lowercase letters in their names. We just started learning how to “tap out” words to read. The students are doing very well with this!
We have also been working more with syllables this week and have started doing more with sight words. The list of sight words went home before vacation in the reading packet I sent home. Please be sure to practice these words with your child often so they become more familiar. A memory game may work well (only use 10-15 words at a time) and be sure to look for these words on signs, around the house, in books, etc. The more students read and write these words, the more automatic they will become!
Students should also be practicing the addition fluency facts that went home as well. We will be taking a little break from our normal math curriculum to work more on fluency facts next week. The usual math papers won’t be going home for a few days.
We will be having our Fish Day on Wednesday, January 31st. Students will travel around to different Kindergarten classrooms to complete various fish projects. Volunteers who have spoken to me about helping out that day, the time is from 9:00-10:15am. Please check in at the office first. Feel free to come a few minutes early so we can go over the project you will be helping with.
Progress reports went home yesterday. Our next scheduled conference isn’t until April but if you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact me. We could either talk over the phone or we could set up a conference in the classroom. The blue progress report folders do need to be returned. You can keep the actual progress report.
The next Scholastic Book Order form will be going home on Monday. All orders will be due on Friday. This is a great opportunity to buy books for Valentine’s Day. We are trying to get the order in early to make sure they will be here in time.
The Francis Wyman Used Bookstore will be open this Wednesday, January 24th. Students are welcome to bring in 50 cents to buy a book or bring in a used book from home to trade for another book. This is completely optional.
The nurse also wants us to remind everyone about the importance of hand-washing with warm, soapy water. There has been a lot of sickness.
Have a great weekend!
Melanie
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