This week in kindergarten

Don't forget...

• Wednesday is a late start day.  School starts at 10:00 and buses are two hours behind schedule.
• Report cards come home Friday
• Please return your Run For the Arts sponsor sheet with pledges.

After two weeks of fun with Habiba, assemblies, Run for the Arts, teacher planning days, and other distractions, this looks to be a straightforward week or two. I am looking forward to continued work on reading, writing, math and more.

This week's themes...

Theme Book: Messenger, Messenger
New Words: what, said, was
Letter study: Uu
Math: categorization, measurement
Art with Ms. Rodhe: Kente cloth

Star of the week: Malachi
New song, Do Re Mi

Run For the Arts

Flower Art

On Monday, be sure to check out our flower art, outside the classroom.

And check out this detail...

Dance with Habiba

Today is our last morning of dance with our artist in residence, Habiba.  We have had a great time exploring dance traditions from Ghana and Senegal.

This week in Kindergarten

This is an interesting and short week.  The first two days were totally routine; we had a chance to focus on reading, writing and math each morning.  Wednesday and Thursday are anything but normal.  Today we will start the day with an assembly, "Journey Brazil" featuring stories and dance from South America.  After recess and P.E. we will end the morning with West African dance with our artist in residence Habiba.  This afternoon we will be heading to Ms. Andrew's classroom for art.  Tomorrow morning we have our last visit with Habiba and we will have a rare morning visit to the library.

Run for the Arts is Thursday afternoon.  This is always a fun event and begins around 12:45.  Please be sure to have your child bring in his/her sponsor sheet tomorrow.

Don't forget - there is no school Friday due to a teacher planning day!  I will be here working on report cards.  These should come home next Friday.

Here are a few themes for the week:
Theme book: "Mayday, Mayday"
Book study: African folktales
New letter: Xx
New words: Week two of yellow, green, blue
Math: More addition

Star of the week: Malachi
New song: Week two of "The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night"

Mandarin 2

Learning to write in Mandarin