Mrs. Woinarowicz's Kindergarten Class

Friday, April 5, 2019

Week 32 - April 8- April 12

Happy Friday families! Feeling ready for the weekend? I'm off to Wisconsin for the weekend to see family and friends!
We had a fun week in KB and our field trip was an amazing time! Thank you again to our chaperones. If you have any toilet paper rolls at home, please send them in on Monday for our Jane Goodall lesson.

Congrats Bernardo for being our March
virtue of the month award winner!

Here's a look at next week:

Spalding:This week we will continue to review phonograms. You will see the last of the 70 phonograms introduced on homework as well as some of the alphabet sounds mixed in. Our words this week will be: hat, child, ice, play, see, sea, bird, cool, earth, feed. Students will know the difference between see and sea on their spelling test by listening to a sentence.

Sight Words:This week we will review list 8. Thank you for practicing with your child during reading time at home, we have seen great progress!

Literature: Our story this week will be “Jack and the BeanStalk.” We will explore the original version and read a couple silly versions. We will discuss the characters, setting, problem and solution. Our poem this week will be “Little Boy Blue.

Math: We will discuss the order of events and what it means for something to come first. We will also learn to arrangement items by size. By the end of the week we will be ordering numbers and discussion ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.)

Geography and Science: This week we will continue to learn all about a famous scientist named Jane Goodall. She spent much of her life studying chimps in Africa so we will explore them as well! Students will learn the difference between apes and monkeys. We will make our own binoculars and go outside to explore and study the nature around us. Later this week we will explore our final continent this year; South America. Students will learn that Spanish is the native language spoken in South America and we will learn some Spanish words! Scholars will learn about the culture, landscape, and foods in Brazil. They will explore Macchu Picchu and even create their own Play-dough ruins.

Monday, April 1, 2019

Fine Arts and French Night

Hello Archway Arete Family! Fine Arts and French Night is Wednesday, April 10^th from 5:30 to 7:30. Please bring your friends and family for a night of celebrating our student’s achievements in Art and French! Art will be displayed on the walls by classrooms, French videos and performances will take place in the MPR, and there will be mini art lessons in the art room. Light refreshments will be served on the playground courtyard by our lovely PSO. Excited to see you there!

Week 31 April 1- April 5

I cannot wait for our field trip to the Odysea on Wednesday! Please remember to pack a lunch for your child to enjoy in our classroom when we get back; there will be no hot lunch on Wednesday for kinder. Library books are due! Please send your child to school with their checked out library book to be returned.

Here's a look at this week:

Spalding: We will continue review our phonograms while adding the last of our 70 phonograms to nightly homework. We will have five words this week that are similar, the only thing that will change is the vowel; big, bag, beg, bog, bug. Our other five words will be: mother, three, land, cold, hot. Note there will be no homework on Wednesday since we anticipate your kiddos will be tired after our field trip.

Sight Words: This week we will introduce list 8, that means we have learned 80 sight words!

Literature:This week we will explore two Japanese folktales about courage, Momotaro: Peach Boy and Issun-Boshi :The One Inch Boy. We will compare the characters and talk about the qualities of a hero. Our Poem will be “My Nose."

Math: We will be practicing the order of numbers from 1- 40 this week. We will work with place value counting groups of tens and ones. Homework will consist of writing numbers 1-40, and counting up to achieve numbers 1-40.

Geography and History: This week we will continue to learn about the continent of Africa. Students will learn all about the fun and unique animals that live there. We will discuss in depth about giraffes, lions, and zebras. Students will get to create a craft of their favorite African animals. On Friday, scholars will be introduced to an important scientist, Jane Goodall. She spent much of her life studying chimps in Africa so we will explore them as well! Students will learn the difference between apes and monkeys.