Kindergarten News 10-27-14

	Week of October 27, 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: 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 are needed. Missing school: If your child will not be at school please let me or the office know. Spirit Days are every Tuesday: Wear your St. Laurence T-shirts or green! October Mass Days: Oct. 30 Parent Teacher Conferences: Parent Teacher conferences were great! Thanks for coming to learn about our learning! Vegetable Soup! We will make vegetable soup on Friday to go with our book. I am asking each student which ingredient they want to bring. Let me know if the ingredient they picked will not work for your family. Halloween Party Friday October 31: Please send your child’s costume in their backpack on Friday. We will have time after lunch to change into costumes for the carnival and dress-up party from 2-3pm. Please no weapons or bloody costumes at school. Feel free to join us for the party in the gym!	Reading Reading will be made up of a whole group lessons and small group lessons based on individual needs. This week our story is Growing Vegetable Soup. The story is about planting a garden full of vegetables and making soup out of the vegetables. Our letter of the week is ‘Ss’ and the rhyme chart is sung to the tune of ‘Skip to My Lou’. We are working on learn all the letters and letter sounds. We are practicing beginning letter sounds and rhyming words every day. This week the focus skill is making predictions while reading a story. See if your student can make predictions during reading time at home. 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 Hiro and his red shoes. Hopefully you will hear he was sad he could not find his shoes.
Math In Math we are working on positions. The vocabulary words are before, between, and after. We will have our chapter 3 assessment later this week. We are also working in on number sequence and counting during our calendar and centers time centers. Try to find things your child can count around the house. Make sure they do not skip any numbers! J

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