KINDERGARTEN NEWS

KINDERGARTEN FEBRUARY CLASS REPORT

READING:  It is so exciting to watch the students’ reading abilities grow by leaps and bounds!  Their love for reading is blossoming as each are learning to read with fluency, expression, and improve their comprehension.  
MATH:  In math, students continue to strengthen their counting skills; counting up to 100 by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s!  We have learned the parts of a clock and how o tell time by the hour.  We are learning the place value of numbers, recognizing coins and the value of each i.e., pennies, nickels, and dimes.  We continue to work on reading graphs/patterns and greater/less than of numbers.  

THEME- Watch out Mr. Germ!  We kicked January off by learning about winter weather and being healthy!  We learned to cover when we sneeze or cough, wash our hands thoroughly, eat healthy food, get a good night’s rest, and exercise.  Last Friday, the kindergartners cooked “school-made” chicken noodle soup, and our big buddies in the third/fourth grade class made healthy sandwiches to go along with our soup.  

SPELL-A-THON TESTS:  17 kindergartners spelled made 100% on their spell-a-thon tests; the others scored in the 90 percentile range!  Kindergartners you are “super duper” smart!”

LANGUAGE ARTS:  The kindergartners have become authors and illustrators in creating winter journals.  They are learning are learning that there are three rules to a sentence; each start with an uppercase letter, each give the reader information, and that it should end with a period.   They are also learning word opposites!

100th Day of School project:   The kindergartners made a timeline of what they have learned in the first 100 days of school!  They colored and decorated 100-day badges to wear, counted 100 marbles, unfix cubes, pegs, buttons, and made 100-day hash with Mrs. Jackel and a 100th day of school chain in Valentine’s colors.  

THEME:  Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we have begun a new theme in which students will be learning about friendship.  In this unit, the kindergartners will learn what qualities it takes to be a good friend.  Towards, the end of the month, we will end this unit with a pretend “sleepover/movie” with our big brothers/sisters.  

HISTORY:  February is Black History month, and the kindergartners will learn about famous African Americans throughout the month.   We will also learn more about the first president of the United States, George Washington, and the 16th president, Abraham Lincoln.  

As you can hear, there is a lot of learning happening in “Kinderland!”