“Kindy News”
week 20
This week’s highlights
* In our sharing basket we had lions, a doll named Lilly, a lamp, a Star Wars lizard, a lemon and a letter keychain.
* In science we looked at how wood taken from the tree and made into something useful. We also made our own plywood and particle board
* We finished up our unit on numbers 11-20 and had our assessment today. We also finished up our number sticker books.
* Mrs. O’Neal came in for Art class, we are making pictures using cut paper and learning about texture.
Continue the learning at home
Story Retell “The Five Pennies”
There was once an unhappy prince one day as he was out walking he saw a little house where a man sat with his cat. The man told his cat, “there are things we need, but I only have five pennies. We will go to the village and buy what we need.”
The prince was surprised that a man with only five pennies was happy, so he decided to follow the man & learn his special secret to happiness.
As the man and his cat walked along, he came upon a woman whose children were crying for food and she told the man she had nothing to cook. So he gave her 2 pennies to buy food for her children. Then he came upon a little boy who had tangled his fishing line and could not fish anymore. So the man gave him 1 penny for new fishing line.
The man and his cat continued on with the prince following, they came upon two unhappy men. One was a hat maker with a broken needle and the other was a painter with no paint. Seeing them unhappy made the man sad. “My two pennies will not buy us much”, he told his cat. “We could give them away also.” So he gave 1 to the hat maker and 1 to the painter. And decided to go back home.
“Stop” said the prince, “I have watched you all day, there are things you need how can you be happy without any money.”
“We get by” said the man, “sharing makes us happy.”
“If sharing is what makes you happy then that is what I should do” said the prince and he gave the man a bag of gold coins. The man was very happy because now he could share more with others.
Coming up next week
* Bring sharing items on Monday or Tuesday that start with the letter Dd, our new letter of the week. Our new sight words will be “black” and “five”.
* We will be having Valentine’s Day celebrations after last recess on Monday and Tuesday. Remember to let your child write the names on their Valentine themselves, it is great writing practice.
* In Math we will start studying numbers on the 100 chart and skip counting.
Snack Mon/Wed: Olivia Tasso
Snack Tues/Thurs: Lane Taylor
Things to note
Students are coming home today with the sight word list for units 1-3. Circled are the words that they know. Please take time to help them in learning to recognize the rest of them.
The staff decided to try having the Spring Program earlier in the school year as things get so busy in May. I have added it to our calendar so you have a heads up.
Place on your calendar
February
13/14 Valentine’s Day Celebrations
15 Bookmobile
16 GMS Library
17 Lane’s ½ birthday
17-20 Presidents Day Weekend – NO SCHOOL
22 Dulce’s birthday
Montanna’s ½ birthday
24 Lexi’s birthday
March
2 Dr. Seuss’s B-day
Read Across America Day
29 Spring Program 7 pm