Kindergarten News - Week of April 6th

  We have had 130 days of school!

Announcements/Reminders:

                                                              

Happy Birthday to Nylah (April 10th)!! 

• Permission Slip: If you have not done so already, please sign and return the permission slips for our field trip on April 15th to the Caribbean Museum for the Arts (CMCA) that were sent home earlier this week. 
• SHOW and TELL on Monday, April 13th: Nylah and Jasper. Please bring one item from home to show to the class.
• NEXT week (April 13-17) is the Week of the Young Child (WOYC)!  Hurray!  This annual celebration, sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the world's largest early childhood education association, features special events for children every year. Below is a tentative schedule of activities to engage and honor the children as we celebrate them​:
  April 13 – Music Monday​: Mr. Deval Stevens, GHCDS steel pan​ instructor, will play steel pan music for the children.
  April 14 – Tasty Tuesday​: Nutritionist, Ms. Angela Coursey, will make​ healthy smoothies with the children.
  April 15 – Artsy Wednesday​: Art at Caribbean Museum Center for​ the Arts (CMCA) - There will be a field trip to CMCA, located in
  Frederiksted.
  April 16 – Work Together Thursday​: Coach Jacob will lead the​ children in working together to build obstacle courses and have fun.
  April 17 - Family Friday​: Parents are invited to bring lunch for​ themselves and their child, and enjoy eating together at school. Lunch
  starts at 12:15pm.
• FOLDERS: Please check these and remove all papers.
• Bloomz: Please check the Bloomz App for reminders and the latest photos - in the “April 2026” album.

•    Practice at home:

• Black & White reading books: No new books were sent home this week.  If you have one at home, please return it on Wednesday, for a new take home book.
• ​Phonics: Spelling words with digraphs (wh, sh, ch, th, ck).
• Math: Fill it to Five

A Peek at our Week:

MATH: How Heavy? Weight & Number   Who knew a scale could be so exciting?

This week we introduced a new Work Place which will give everyone the opportunity to compare the weights of different items. We have a ‘pan balance scale’ which they will be using for this activity. If you have any small items at home that would work well for this activity (and can stay in our class for a few weeks), feel free to send it to school. In Number Corner we are also looking at different types of measurement - length, capacity, temperature, and weight. Please check the Unit 7 overview.

SEL: In our social emotional lesson this week, Ms. Bird asked the class to think of moments where someone was unkind to them or when they were unkind to someone. For each of these moments, Ms. Bird, holding a paper cutout of a person, punched a hole in it. The class cringed each time she did - a true reflection of how unkind words can hurt. The lesson then being that we can apologize for our unkind words and actions, but it is hard to completely erase the hurt we caused.

Butterfly Smash Art. Everyone loves those beautiful colorful fluttering creatures. We talked about the symmetry of butterfly wings and did our best to replicate by using paint and "smashing" both wings together. The results were amazing. As some finished with their butterfly they stuck around to see what the next one would look like and were surprised each time by the result. Pictures when this art project is complete!

Cambridge Global Perspectives: Quite appropriately, as we approach Earth Day, we are learning about things that we can do to take care of the earth. We talked about being more mindful of using paper and how we could dispose of different items if we could recycle everything.