It's Great To Be A Skyhawk!

Fall Fest A Huge Hit!

What a fun time! Everyone enjoyed Fall Fest last Friday night! A great big THANK YOU to all of the parents that volunteered. Everyone has been talking about it nonstop!

Kindergarten's First Guest Speaker

Your Skyhawks enjoyed a special treat last Wednesday!  Mrs. Mary Ann Grainger is a registered dietician, and she helped us understand how to make healthy choices with the foods we eat. We played informative games and learned how to check the grams of sugar and fiber content in packaged food items. Don't be surprised if your child asks you to check the food labels and requests that you make another choice if the sugar content is more than 10 grams! They may even request 100% fruit juice or whole wheat bread!

Parsa, Addie and Jackson play Spin and Win with Mrs. Grainger

Kate Lindsey tries a Star Fruit


 


 

     As an extension activity to our study of Nutrition and healthy eating habits, the kindergarteners will experience how we get food from plants. We will discuss and taste the edible parts of various plants (seeds, roots, stems, leaves, flowers).

 

First Field Trip This Week

As we continue our study of nutrition and healthy eating habits the kindergarteners will experience their first field trip of the year this week.

The Bear Cubs and Ducklings visited the local BI-LO on Forest Drive this morning.
The Tiger Cubs and Friendly Frogs will be visiting BI-LO this Thursday.

This field study is a good way for the children to discover fruits and vegetables after they have been picked, cleaned, and shipped from small and large farms. The staff teaches our kindergarten students various ways to make wise decisions about the food they eat.

Sight Word Study

black, green, purple, orange

Suggested sight word activities and games.

• Place sight words in a container. Invite your child to shake the container, spill out the words, and read the ones that fall face up. Give your child a score that is equal to the number of letters in the words he/she reads. Record the total, then place the remaining words back in the container, shake and spill again. Add the total to the first score. Continue until all words have been read.
• Choose a newspaper article and see if your child can spot one or two sight words at a time. Use a highlighter and count how many times the word appeared.
• Turn the sight words into rainbows. Ask your child to write a sight word on paper in big letters. Using different crayons, have your child trace around the word again and again, reading the word each time.
• Have your child write the sight words on the driveway using sidewalk chalk.