Kinder News 2.28

With no school on Friday, I had forgotten to send this. Apologies! Hope you enjoyed your long weekend!
-Miss Wagenaar

WEEKLY HAPPENINGS
Shared Reading: Together as a class, we read the big book "Dan the Flying Man" several times.
Literacy: In response to the literature, students created their own page of a scene that they would fly over if they got the ability to fly. Also relating to the book, we worked on the _an word family.
Writers Workshop: We talked about counting words before writing a sentence. In the process we talked about the difference between letters, words, and sentences. Students are still practicing using their Alphabet Charts and Space Sticks.
Math: Students are wrapping up their unit on Telling Time. They will bring home their Rabbit Clocks for more practice next week.
Science: We are continuing to talk about animals that live on the farm, and their attributes.
Art: The young artists of room 4 completed their March self portraits. We focused this month on filling in the entire background of their picture.
Social Studies: We are wrapping up our study of National Symbols and will be moving onto State Symbols next week. We also talked about Dental health month and introduced foods that would be good choices for our dental health, and those that would be bad choices.
Lifeskill Assembly: This month Colin was honored with our award for Caring at our Blue Day assembly.
Field Trip: Tuesday was our field trip to San Francisco's Herbst Theater to see "People Like Me", an interpretation of the legend of how the sun got it's light. Students enjoyed a wonderful lunch on the lawn, great performance and fun bus rides to and from. Special thanks to our parent volunteers who chaperoned and EXTRA special thanks to Mrs. Fritschen who taught all of the Kindergarten classes about the myth and cultures that were respresented before we saw the performance.

NOTES AND REMINDERS
Wishlist: We are in desperate need of glue sticks in Room 4. If you are able to donate one, or a pack it would be much appreciated!

IMPORTANT DATES
April 13-17 NO SCHOOL Spring Break :)