Kindergarten News - Week of January 19th

  We have had 84 days of school!

Announcements/Reminders:

• Weekly News: Please see the Kindergarten Blog for a quick recap of our week. 

• ​SHOW and T​ELL on Monday (January 26th): Olivia and Iron​. Please bring one item from home to show to the class.
• FOLDERS: Please check these and remove all papers.
• Bloomz: Please check the Bloomz App for reminders and the latest photos - in the “January 2026” album.

•    Practice at home:

• Letters ​Q​, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
• Tapping out three letter words
• Math “​Frogs and more Frogs”

A Peek At Our Week:

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  STAR STUDENT: Our Star Student is Francesca (aka Frankie) and her birthday is next week (January 28th)! Frankie absolutely adores her baby sister Laney - who was a big focus as Frankie talked about her pictures. Frankie's favorite color is purple and her favorite food is corn. She enjoys playing with Lanie, snuggling with mommy, and going to the store with daddy. Her favorite sport is soccer. And when she grows up Frankie want to be a mommy and a lawyer like her mommy.

• MATH: Comparing & Measuring Length: We had fun measuring all sorts of things in the classroom this week. First we measured two long lines that ran across our classroom. As we discussed different ways to measure them, we all decided that measuring one step at a time would work best. On another day, we split into groups and measured classroom items using popsicle sticks. Finally one team measured with sticks and the other with unifix cubes. Each time we used the language “greater or longer than” and “less or shorter than”. 

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  ELC Gardening: After weeks with no gardening, Kindergartners were happy to get back out there and see what was growing. Some of them picked some green beans to try and Ms. Christina gave them some dry ones which they later took the seeds out to plant. They also 'unwrapped' the gourd of the loofah plant to reveal a whole loofah sponge!
  

• ART: Penguins everywhere! Thinking of all those people who may be dealing with a winter storm this weekend, we thought the penguin would be a animal to showcase in Art this week! Adorable and resilient. Skills used included tracing, cutting, gluing and coloring (using paint sticks).

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Our Families: Fiona presented her family (via picture) to the class this week. She was very proud to talk about her sister who she clearly looks up to, but also said about every member of her family that they are very good to her.