Dear Families,
We learned the letters c and k together make one sound, and the digraph ck follows a short vowel. This week we continued to work on report card assessments. They boys and girls filled in the missing numbers on a March calendar. They colored a St. Patrick’s Day picture that we used for the report cards. We talked to the students about filling in all of the white spaces and staying inside the lines. On Monday the students made dirt cups with crushed oreos, vanilla pudding, and gummy worms for the members of the school board. The school board members and the principals really enjoyed the delicious spring time snack during the meeting. On Tuesday, Ryan’s mom brought in chick eggs and put them in an incubator. She read a book to us about eggs and hatching. We have to turn the eggs two times a day, and in 21 days the eggs will hatch! This will be an exciting process to watch!
The kindergartners continued Daily 5 this week. We learned how to work with words. When we work with words we are quiet. We get busy right away and stay in one spot. WE practice making words and letters on paper with pencils and markers. We use erasable white boards and stamps to work with words. The kids like using wiki sticks to work with letters and words along with letter magnets on jelly roll pans. The kindergartners started out working with words for 3 minutes. We increased the time a minute a day, and now we are up to 7 minutes! Our goal for working with words is ten minutes.
We are in need of some supplies for Daily 5. The kindergarten classroom could use some new single color ink pads for stamping. The students could also use more individual cd players with headphones and individual tape players with headphones for listening to reading.
Please check with your kindergartner on the condition of his/her pencils at school. Some need replaced! Some pencils need to be replaced by families because the eraser is worn down or the pencil is too short. Please send pencils with erasers on them so that if your student makes a mistake he/she can easily erase it.
Until further notice, sharing is free choice. Please send only ONE item to school each week unless it is a collection of something.
March 21st was the end of the third quarter. We believe that report cards will go home on March 29th.
North Tama Elementary is using a math practice website called IXL. Kindergarten families are welcome to go online and use this website. The address is www.ixl.com/signin/northtama. Your child’s user name is their first initial followed by their last name. All of these letters are lowercase. You child’s password is your child’s initials typed in lowercase letters. For example, if your child’s name is John Smith, his username would be jsmith, and his password would be js. This is a great tool and easy to use!!! At each questions there is an option to have the computer speak to you. You also get prizes when you reach the goals!!! Try it, it’s great! Another great website for literacy is www.starfall.com. This website gives students many different ways to learn and read!
The kindergartners continue to work with the green, yellow, and right light system. We start every day on green. (Green is great!) If the class is loud or isn’t following directions as a group, the green will turn to yellow. (Yellow is a warning.) If the boys and girls work hard and begin listening and following directions we can move back to a green. If they do not, we move to red. (Red is BAD!) If the kindergartners get to red, they eat snack silently. If they get two in a day, they eat snack silently AND put their heads down on their tables for a few minutes. We reached our goal of 7 days in a row with no reds and had a stuffed animal party on Wednesday. Our new goal is to have 4 days in a row without any YELLOWS. Check with your kindergartner on how close we are to reaching the new goal.
Snowpants and boots are not needed during this awesome weather. If it snows again, you will need to send the snowpants and boots again.
Please put extra socks in your student’s backpack. Kids that wear sandals and flip flops to school like having socks for p.e. class.
On Thursday, April 5th students are dismissed one hour early for Easter break. There will be no school on Friday, April 6th. On April 18th the students are dismissed at 12:50 for professional development. There is no school for students on Wednesday, May 9th.
Round up week will be April 30th – May 4th. Kindergarten students stay home that week so that we can get to know the future kindergartners. Please mark your calendars and arrange for child care that week.
Enjoy this spring weather!
Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Daugherty
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