Friday, April 30, 2010

Kindergarten News
May 3-7

Weekly Theme:
Time

We will be doing DIBELS and Kindergarten Assessment Testing the next two weeks. If your child will be gone during this time, please contact me ASAP!!

MAY

Wow, the end of the year is coming so quickly! All take home and school library books need to be returned by Thursday, May 13th. The students are excited to present the Kindergarten program on May 13th. If your child is in the morning class, please have him/her meet in the school library at 5:45. The afternoon class will meet in the library at 6:45. The morning class will perform at 6:00 PM and the afternoon class will perform at 7:00 PM in the school gym. Please dress your child in Sunday clothes if possible.

The last day of school is Friday, May 28th. On that day, both morning and afternoon classes will meet from 8:50-10:30/10:40. From past experience it works much more smoothly if we dismiss the AM students at 10:30 and the PM students at 10:40. All PM classes need to be picked up in the kindergarten classroom. The buses will not be running for the PM students. There is no Extended-Day on that day. We need to do it this way in order to allow all students the chance to meet their 1st Grade teachers. We appreciate you changing your schedules accordingly. Have a great week and please feel free to call or email with any questions or concerns.

linda.wood@ironmail.org
ginger.ekker@ironmail.org
586-2850

Friday, April 23, 2010

Kindergarten News
April 26-30

Weekly Theme:
Time

Help your child develop good comprehension skills
• Talk with him/her about the story and pictures
• Have him/her predict what a story will be about
• Have him/her retell the important parts of the story

April

We are working hard at end-of-level testing, DIBELS, and the kindergarten program. Thanks for your continued help and support! This time of year it is needed perhaps the very most. Please keep up the daily reading. It is so exciting to see the progress of each child! We will continue to practice and review skills that will give your kindergartner the opportunity to be successful in first grade.

The students are excited to present the Kindergarten program on May 13th. It will be held in the school gym. If your child is in the morning class, please have him/her meet in the school library at 5:45. The afternoon class will meet in the library at 6:45. The kids are great performers and are doing well learning their speaking and singing parts.

Have a great week and please feel free to call or email with any questions or concerns. Thank you!

linda.wood@ironmail.org
ginger.ekker@ironmail.org
586-2850

Friday, April 16, 2010

Kindergarten News
April 19-23

Weekly Theme:
Vowels

Help your child develop good comprehension skills
• Talk with him/her about the story and pictures
• Have him/her predict what a story will be about
• Have him/her retell the important parts of the story

April

Thanks for all you do at home to help with your child’s education. I appreciate your support! Keep up the great work with the leveled books and the homework!

We will be testing your child beginning the first part of May for DIBELS, Kindergarten Assessment, and current reading levels. I encourage you to look over your child’s assessment from 3rd quarter and review with him/her any items that have an “N” by them. The 4th quarter assessment covers the following skills:
• Predicting what a story is about by looking at the pictures
• Retelling a story including beginning, middle and end
• Creating a series of 3 rhyming words (ten, hen, men) for example
• Reading all 25 kindergarten sight words
• Writing a story with a picture (including capital, spaces, and ending mark)
• Subtraction to 5
• Naming days of the week in order
• Identifying parts of a calendar
• Time/Money

linda.wood@ironmail.org
ginger.ekker@ironmail.org
586-2850

Friday, April 9, 2010

Kindergarten News
April 12-16

Weekly Theme:
Weather/Seasons/
Vowels

Literacy Idea
Ask open-ended questions that require more than a “yes” or “no” answer. Ask “what if” questions. You might be surprised at the answers your children can come up with!

April
The kids are excited to present our kindergarten program to you! We had our first practice this week and they did a great job! We will continue practicing our singing and speaking parts so that we will be ready for May 13th! I’m sure you will be impressed—they are awesome little performers! Please mark this very important night on your calendars and let grandparents know about it as well.

Your children should have brought their Spring picture packets home. Please either send the money back to school with your child if you decide you want to purchase them or if you do not want to purchase them, please send the picture packet back. Lifetouch Photography wants to collect all money and pictures by next week.

Thank you for bringing in box tops! The Spring contest goes until April 30th so please continue to send them in! It is a great way to earn money for our school.

Mr. Oldroyd will be taking teacher requests for next year until April 15th. They need to be in writing, have a 1st and 2nd choice, and have a valid, educational reason for the request.
Thanks for all you do. As always, please call or e-mail with any questions or concerns.

linda.wood@ironmail.org
ginger.ekker@ironmail.org
586-2850