Kindergarten News: March 19-23

Next week in Reading we will continue with Unit 5, Going Places.  We will be reading the story Messenger! Messenger! and discussing different forms of emergency transportation.  Students will review the vowel Uu.  We will also discuss comparing and contrasting.  In Phonics we will be learning about the consonant “Ww” as in wagon, west, and wacky.  We will have 2 fun activities for the letter W.  On Wednesday we’ll have “Watery Wednesday” when we do lots of experiments and activities about water.  We will also have “Wacky Hair Day” on Friday.  Students are invited to wear their hair in a wacky way on Friday!  Word List 15 will be tested Friday, March 23rd.  In Math, we’ll continue to use tangrams.  We will also compare numbers and practice counting backwards!

Kindergarten Graduation pictures will be taken March 30th.  All students need to wear a white collared shirt for pictures!  Package information was in your child’s folder last week.  If you lost the package information it is available on Miss Smith’s blog (http://missjsmith.blogspot.com/).  Picture money is due March 29th.  

Our Field Trip will be on Thursday, May 24th.  We will be attending the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus in Hershey at the Giant Center!

We have been working on testing for the 3rd Marking Period.  Report Cards will be sent home on Friday, March 23rd

Specials schedule for next week is:
Monday: Computers                     Tuesday: Art                        Wednesday: Music          
Thursday: Gym                               Friday: Library