Kindergarten Newsletter.
Thursday 18th April
A week of firsts for kindergarten. Saying goodbye to the French visitors and enjoying the activities of "Bring a friend to school". The Lower school mixed age groups and worked together on making a blossom picture, looking at chicks, making necklaces, making a friendship mural and then singing songs. The event ended by singing, "Goodbye my friends".
Math work. The measuring unit advances with the children measuring object in inches. Marcy
Cooke tiles on before and after numbers and then working on number patterns in order to recognize numbers to 30.
Story writing Each week the children are reading and recognizing new sight words. Now up to 35 sight words, a book was made to practice different sight words.
Their reading skills are progressing well. Sight words can help a child read with more fluency and speed.
There are some new sight words and older sight words, which need some practice. Here are the sight words that need some practice: but, what, all were, when, we, there, can, an, your, which, their, said, if, do, will, each, about, how, up.
Science. Some of the children looked at red worms and made a home for them. The other group will study the red worms next week. They will learn how to feed and care for the worms. This is the start of composting.
Assembly
This week's assembly was the French farewell assembly with slides of their visit.
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Children of kindergarten age are learning and growing daily but they are children, so mistakes will happen. Please reinforce to your children that at BFS, every child needs to be responsible and be a friend to everyone. Simplicity, kindness, friendship and helping the community are really important values of BFS and I am certain to all of you as parents. The children all want to do the right thing!
Please remember that the weather is changeable at this time of the year. Please send a light jacket for the mornings. Our playground often does not get warm until lunchtime.
Important dates:
Saturday 4th May- Spring Frolic
Wednesday 1st May- Bike Assembly. Bring in bikes and helmets on Tuesday 30th May at the end of the day. Only bikes! This is just for fun, as I love to go biking and I like to inspire a love of exercise and keeping fit, while having a good time. They can have training wheels! This is not a competition and should NOT be stressful for anyone. Big friends help! The children need helmets. The bikes can come in on Tuesday 30th May and I will keep them in the classroom.
They can go home on Wednesday 1st May.
Friday 10th May Grandparents/ friends morning. Grandparents or a special grown up friend come to school. Unfortunately there is no room for parents! It is a wonderful morning! I will send home a schedule as soon as I get it. It may be the day before.
The art show will be up so make sure you look at it as it has all the children’s work in it. Please feel free to stop in and enjoy it any time after 1:00 p.m.
Friday 31st May Conferences for Kindergarten parents. Children will have a normal school day.
Friday 7th June. Track and Field day. It is a normal day of school so the children come for 8:30 and parents come to school for 10:45 am. The event starts for lower school at 10:45 AM on the lower school playground then the lower school moves to the little field behind the meetinghouse. The children will be on the blue team or the grey teams. I will get to know the teams soon. If in doubt, please ask me.
There is a lot going on but I will remind you as the date arrives.
Enjoy your long weekend.
In peace and friendship,
Jean