Kindergarten News - Week of February 2nd

 

We have had ​94 days of school!

Announcements/Reminders:                                                                                   

• SHOW and TELL on Monday (February 9th): ​Fiona and ​Nicholas. Please bring one item from home to show to the class.
• VALENTINE'S DAY is in ​one week​! We will celebrate (of course!) next Friday, February 13th.  Please find attached to the email, a list of students and teachers in the ELC. Though your child is certainly not expected to bring something for ALL children in the ELC, I do ask that all children in Kindergarten are included. It is so sad to be left out.  ​If you have a gift back that you could bring - this has worked well in the past to put Valentine's in. I have a few white ones, if you don't have anything. Please send  Valentines by Wednesday, February 1​1th. This will give ​us time to sort through all of them and make the actual day a bit easier and enjoyable for all. Thanks so much for your support.
• FOLDERS: Please check these and remove all papers.
• Bloomz: Please check the Bloomz App for reminders and the latest photos - in the “​February 2026” album.

•    Practice at home:

• Tapping out three letter words
• ​T​rick (Sight) Words: a, the
• Math “Shape Sorting & Patterning”

A Peek At Our Week:

Show and Tell:

We had three wonderful Show and Tell presentations this week! First, Crucian Christmas Festival Duchess 2025-2026 (she said it each time and with stumbling once!), Talia, wore her beautiful crown and her sash and talked about her experience being in the pageant and about what some of her responsibilities have included so far. Then Kinnick brought his remote control truck. The class was especially curious to see the "inside" of the truck and, of course, a demonstration of what the truck could do. Kinnick showed that he is a skilled 'driver'! Last, but not least, Olivia showed her very cool bicycle. She talked about how she competed in the Great Pumpkin Junior Duathlon, where she won a medal for best time in her category. Her classmates were impressed by the lack of training wheels and asked her how she learned. Olivia said she taught herself and then practiced! Awesome job everyone. We now look forward to Fiona and Nicholas' Show and Tell next Monday.

Reading Buddies: Our 4th grade Reading Buddies were happy that all were

present this week. Kindergarten was excited to be hosting their buddies and enjoyed being able to select some of the books.

MATH: Circles, Squares, Triangles & Rectangles - oh, my! The week was spent exploring two dimensional shapes. We talked about different attributes and sorted them using ‘shape sorting cards’. The class practiced sorting by shape, size, color, curved line, straight line, etc. By the end of the week we said goodbye to shapes and hello to a new Work Place. On our Geoboard Shapes Work Place, students will practice copying certain shapes using rubber bands, and recording the shape on a separate sheet, using a ruler to make really straight lines. In addition to our regular Math class, there is a lot going on in our Number Corner. Starting a new month means becoming familiar with a new pattern. We have also been counting our days in school and the class has realized that we are very, very close to the 100th Day of School!

Agricultural Fair/Art: Our art project focused entirely on the GHCDS AgFair booth. The project was inspired by the book 'Tortoises' Dream' by Joanna Troughton, in which animals go in search of a tree that bares a wonderful variety of fruit. Kindergartners talked about their favorite fruit and vegetables and made colorful representations to hang on the tree in the GHCDS booth.