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

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

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

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

Kindergarten News
March 29-April 2

Weekly Theme:
Easter

Kindergarten Program
We will have our Kindergarten Program on Thursday, May 13th at 6:00 PM for the morning class and 7:00 PM for the afternoon class. It will be held in the school gym. Please mark it on your calendars. THANKS!

March/April

Time is going so quickly! We will be doing lots of important learning during these last nine weeks of school. Please continue to make school an important priority. Every child has made remarkable improvements since the beginning of the year. Thank you for your support at home!

Our Easter party will be on Tuesday, March 30th. Thank you again for the parents who volunteered to provide items for the party! It is greatly appreciated!

Please return the March reading calendar with your child’s reading time recorded on it by Monday, April 5th. To qualify for the free pizza, remember our goal is 15 minutes a night for five nights a week. (300 minutes a month)

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 from April 1st to 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. Please call or e-mail with any questions or concerns.

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

Kindergarten News
March 22-26

Weekly Theme:
Animals/
Animal Homes

Kindergarten Program
We will have our Kindergarten Program on Thursday, May 13th at 6:00 PM for the morning class and 7:00 PM for the afternoon class. It will be held in the school gym. Please mark it on your calendars. THANKS!

March

Please continue to keep track of your child’s reading times for our read-a-thon and return the calendar (the one on tan paper that was sent home in your child’s homework folder) this Monday and again on Friday with the minutes your child reads to someone or someone reads to them. Please put your signature on the paper as well. The final day to bring the calendar back is Friday, March 26th.

Lin’s Food Market now has boxes at the front of their store for each school in the district. Please turn in your Lin’s receipts in the South box. You no longer need to send them to the school—Lin’s will count the receipts for us which will be so helpful!

Our Easter party will be on Tuesday, March 30th. If you signed up to bring something, a reminder will come home on Monday, March 22nd in your child’s homework folder.

Thank you for your support and help at home. It is greatly appreciated. You have wonderful children!

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

Kindergarten News
March 15-19

Weekly Theme:
Animals/
Animal Homes

Kindergarten Program
We will have our Kindergarten Program on Thursday, May 13th at 6:00 PM for the morning class and 7:00 PM for the afternoon class. It will be held in the school gym. Please mark it on your calendars. THANKS!

March

We had a wonderful celebration for our Read-a-thon kick-off. The PTA once again gave the students a fun, exciting experience to get them pumped up for reading. Please continue to keep track of your child’s reading times for the next two weeks and return the calendar (the one on tan paper that was sent home in your child’s homework folder last Monday) each Monday with the minutes your child reads to someone or someone reads to them. I know it includes other activities to do as well, but thought it would be easier to have you put the reading times on this same paper rather than return the classroom calendar each Monday. Please put your signature on the paper as well. The final day to bring the calendar back is Friday, March 26th.

Please talk to your children about “Stranger Danger” without causing them alarm. Two attempted abductions have occurred In Iron County in the last few weeks. A reminder about safety is always helpful!

Thanks for bringing in box tops. We are collecting quite a few and appreciate your help! As always, thank you for your continual support in making your child’s education a success! Please feel free to let me know of any questions or concerns!
linda.wood@ironmail.org
ginger.ekker@ironmail.org
586-2850