Kindergarten News
Jan. 11-15, 2010

Weekly Theme:
Penguins

Early Literacy Idea
Encourage your child to write the names of the people in your family. Drawing pictures to go along with the names is fun too.

JANUARY

We had a great week back in school and the children are adjusting well after the long break. January is a good learning time and I am excited to see the continued progress of your wonderful children. Each one is improving. Please look over the second quarter assessment to review the skills your child has not mastered. It is a great help if you work on these skills at home (especially the phone number, birthday and address section) and we will continue to work hard on these skills at school too. Your help is greatly appreciated!

We will continue to talk about winter, Antarctica and penguins. We will discuss the characteristics of wintertime, fascinating facts about Antarctica, and learn about penguins and how to categorize animals according to similarities and differences. We will conclude that there are many different types of animals found around the world.
We will learn the sight word run this week, which is the last of the twenty-five kindergarten sight words! We will now learn some first grade sight words. What a great accomplishment for them!
On Friday the students can bring a toy to play with in P.E. that they are willing to share with the other children in our class.

Thank you again to all of you for your help and support at home! Please let me know of any questions or concerns!
linda.wood@ironmail.org
ginger.ekker@ironmail.org
586-2850