Finally --- Spring has sprung!! We will continue our discussions on this wonderful season, chicks, worms and additionally focus on Pets, Farm & Exotic Animals. Class inquiries should include: caring for pets, animal needs, extinction, habitats and respecting God’s creatures. Animals will be classified into groups according to physical and environmental characteristics. In math, we will sort them into groups according to various characteristics (e.g. with / without wings, two vs. four legs etc.) as well as discuss the concept of symmetry; particularly in nature (e.g. butterfly wings).
Thematic Farm vocabulary includes:
animals/ animaux farm/ ferme farmer/ fermier- ière cow/ vache
dog/ chien cat/ chat hen/ poule chick / poussin pig/ cochon
horse/ cheval sheep/mouton duck/ canard goat/ chèvre
Thematic Wild Animal vocabulary includes:
giraffe/ girafe monkey/ singe lion / lion tiger / tigre
zebra / zèbre elephant / éléphant gorilla / gorille snake / serpent
fox / renard porcupine / porc-épic wolf/ loup bear/ ours
On Thursday, June 8th all the Kindergarten classes will be
Please note that our excursion will occur regardless of the weather conditions. Please have your child dressed
appropriately for the conditions.
MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW.
READING: All “popcorn” / high-frequency words should now be practiced regularly by SKs and they should be making frequent attempts to read as many words as possible in their environment. Continue to encourage them to read pattern books or read along with you whenever possible.
“Popcorn” Words to review:
I, is, in, it, a, am, an, and, at, my, me, we, see, he, she, the, you, yes, can, to, do, so, go, no, look, like, love, mom, dad, bus, was, went, said, come, that, up
WRITING: At this point in Senior Kindergarten we are expecting all students to phonetically write simple sentences to the best of their ability and to make attempts to include “popcorn” words wherever possible. Sentences should begin with an upper case letter, end with a period and include spaces between words. Please encourage labels on their pictures and help them to write lists, emails or cards.
We also encourage children to wear sunscreen and hats for safe outdoor play now that the warm sun has finally arrived. If you are putting a bottle of sunscreen in their backpack, please package it in a ziploc bag to avoid messy spills. Thank you.
