Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Welcome Back!

We hope that everyone had a fun, relaxing Winter Break. We have enjoyed listening to the many adventures your kindergarteners experienced with their families. We all had a wonderful time celebrating Valentine's Day last week. A great big thank you for all of the delicious treats!

Focus On France

This week, we are excited about exploring our country of study, France. The Lower School is being transformed into this beautiful country. Our Country Day of Study will be celebrated this Friday, February 20th. The kiva will be busy helping with this day.

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT EACH STUDENT NEEDS TO BRING A COMPLETE LUNCH FROM HOME WITH NO HEATUPS.

Thanks for your help with this!

Word Study February 17-23

We will review all sight words studied so far. Kindergarteners are getting really good at reading the words off of the blue and purple cards. Now that they can recall these words, we encourage you to practice reading them on different types of media (i.e. magazines, newspapers) and in different fonts. We also suggest reinforcement in writing them in complete sentences. Complete sentence writing can be a challenge so start with simple sentences then add detail and describing words.

Sensational Science

As we wrapped up our study of the polar regions, each of the kindergarten classes participated in a "blubber" experiment. We felt ice cold water with our human hands ---BRRRR...
Then we wore a glove of blubber to note the difference in the way our hand felt in the same frigid water. Ask your child what they discovered.