102’s Kindergarten News For You!

Reading/Writing:   We are working on telling and writing a story with a beginning, a middle and an ending.  Some of us are making up a problem to our story so that we can explain how the problem was fixed!  We retold the story of The Little Red Hen using puppets.  She had a problem.  What was it?  How did she fix it? We are also identifying the characters and setting in a story.  When reading to your child, be sure to ask them where/who these are!  Our new words will be: because, one, two, three, four & five.

Math/Numbers: We are spiraling back to see if we remember how to read a graph, what kind of a graph is being read (picture, line, pie or bar) as well as making our own graphs.  Some of us forgot some of this.  Numeral writing:  practice those 6’s, 9’s, 2’s & 5’! Counting by 5’s has been fun because we can use nickels.  Counting by 10’s is a breeze because we can use dimes and it’s SO FAST!!!! Zooom! 

Special Topics:  We will begin talking about the FIVE SENSES next week because that will lead us into one of my favorite topics:  FOOD! Food will lead us into NUTRITION. J

Important Stuff:  I have seen some beautiful, warm coats, hats & gloves on the kids.  Darn kids keep growing, don’t they? Please try to mark these with names if possible as some are identical to a friend’s.  NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS ON Monday, October 31, 2011!

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT STUFF:  The students get to vote for the teacher wearing their favorite costume. Remind your child to vote for ME!  Hee! Hee!  J  We’ll see if they can figure out what I am as I haven’t told them yet!   BOO!

Until next time,                                         
Mrs. SteinmanJ