Kindergarten News 10-20-14

	Week of October 20, 2014 St. Laurence School Weekly Newsletter From the classroom of Mrs. Specht
KINDERGARTEN
Make sure to check your child’s folder every night! We are working hard every day!

Reminders	Learning in Kindergarten!
Clothing: Please send extra clothes for your kindergartener just in case they need to change some time during the day. The weather is changing. We will go outside every day unless it is less than zero degrees or raining. Please make sure your child is dressed for the weather! Hats, gloves, coats, snow pants and boots will all be necessary very soon. Check and make sure everything fits before it gets too cold! Missing school: If your child will not be at school please let me or the office know. No School Friday October 24 Spirit Days are every Tuesday: Wear your St. Laurence T-shirts or green! October Mass Days: Oct. 23, Oct. 30 Parent Teacher Conferences: If you have not done so already, please return the parent teacher schedule form to the office. Conference times are filling up quickly! The time schedule is going home with all the kindergarteners today. Please take a look and see if the time still works for you. Let me know if Thursday October 23 from 6pm to 8pm or Friday 8am-12pm will not work for you so we can schedule a better time. SINGING AT THE LITURGY We will sing again October 26 at the 5:30 mass.	Reading Reading will be made up of a whole group lessons and small group lessons based on individual needs. This week our story is Mouse’s Mess. The story is about a mouse in a kitchen. While he is getting snacks, he makes a huge mess and blames the people. Our letter of the week is ‘Mm’ and the rhyme chart is a marching song. We are working on learn all the letters and letter sounds. We are practicing beginning letter sounds and rhyming words every day. We are also working hard to retell stories. We use “Story Champs” trophies to practice remembering the character, setting, problem, feeling, action and ending feeling. Ask your child about Maria at the store buying bananas and how mad she felt.
Math In Math we are working on positions. The vocabulary words are on, over, under, left, right, front and behind. We are also working in on number sequence and counting during our centers time centers. Try to find things your child can count around the house.

How Healthy Are Our Local Waterways? This is the theme of the placed-based education unit this summer. We will become “field detectives” as we search the rivers of Laramie looking at the richness of the plant life and the types of macro invertebrates living in our streams. The data collected will aid the students in determining the health of the local waterways. We will be in the field every Monday for approximately two hours. This will begin on Monday, July 14 and end on Monday, July 28. Please check the back of this sheet for a calendar and more information.

Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns. Mrs. Specht: 307-399-6915 or mspecht@stlos.com