Miss. Morena Urrutia

Kindergarten

Reminders for this month:

MAY

2 - Free dress/Salem Social after school

6 - Science Fair & Open House at 7:00 p.m.

26 - Memorial Day - No School - No Daycare

JUNE

6 - Free Dress/Salem Social after school

11 - Kindergarten Graduation at 1:00 p.m.

12 - Records Day – No School, Yes Daycare

        6th. Grade Class graduation at 5:00 p.m.

13 - Last Day of School – 10:30 Final Chapel – 11:30 Dismissal – Yes Daycare

Language Arts

This week the children will be working on phoneme replacement, initial and final consonants, focusing on words in print, making a rhyme, reviewing sounds and letters, listening for final sounds and reviewing letters “B”, “C” and “O”.

Reading

                “Moon Says Good Night”

Rhyme

        “Bluebird, Bluebird”
        “One Hungry, Monster”

Math

This week the children will be paying for item using pennies, nickels, or dimes. Also, they will be working on identifying and matching equivalent sets and identifying doubles. The children will be also having an assessment.

Bible

This week we will be discussing about trying our best and we will discuss about how God helps us to do things through His strength and the students will make a gold medal.

Social Studies

This week the children will be learning facts about pigs and roosters.

"Star of the Week" EVERYONE!!!

Suggestions For Parents

Kindergarten is a nurturing, positive, and stimulating program that builds habits and experiences which will help the child as he/she gets older. As children draw, cut patterns, color, glue, and paint, they develop the use of arm and hand muscles which they will later use in handwriting. In building houses or stories with the building blocks, they need to consider size, proportion, and number, which will later help to make arithmetic seem more sensible. "Play" is really "work" for the five year old.

Listen to your child attentively and interactively. Take time to have meaningful conversations with your child. Exchange and discuss ideas. Read to your child. Talk about what you read. Retell the story. Talk about the author and illustrator. Look at and talk about the pictures. Talk about unfamiliar vocabulary. Stress colors, shapes, and sounds. Identify and classify objects to likenesses and differences. Make note of rhyming words and words that begin with the same sound. Practice "reading" from front to back of the book and from left to right down the page and from top to bottom. Ask your child questions like, Guess what might happen next? What would you do in a similar situation? Let your child see you reading to learn new information and for enjoyment. Have fun reading together!

Help your child learn to identify his/her printed name and initials. When printing their names, capitalize only the first letter and make all the others lower case. Use top to bottom letter and number formation; don't push up from the bottom to the top. Encourage a three fingered pencil grip (thumb on the side, only the index finger on top, and long middle finger in the back).

Help your child practice tying, buttoning, snapping and zipping his/her own clothing so this can be accomplished without adult assistance. Let your little one be a "child". We all need time to discover, explore, experiment and interact. We all need time to grow and "bloom".

Remember, you are your child's first teacher and that joy and responsibility doesn't stop because he/she is now "in school". You will be teaching and guiding him/her for many years to come and those attitudes and impressions you instill in your child now, will still be carried with your precious child into adulthood.

Click on the link below to read the curriculum for Kindergarten.

Attach:CurriculumK.doc

Fun with Rhyming!

Rhyming Words

Clifford books to read and fun activities

Clifford The Big Red Dog

PBS games and activities

ABC Watermelons

Learn to Read

It's fun to read!

Mathematics

Fun counting games and adding!