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Ask Your Child About...

1. To review and practice all of our kinder words so far!

2. Identify and explain the features of the shapes circle, triangle, square, rectangle, and hexagon

3. Find and sort flat (2D) and solid (3D) shapes

4. Birds, birds, birds!

We did our best to create a song of bird sounds 🐦

🍎 Thank you all for bringing in such yummy and healthy snacks for our class to share during snack time! The kids love having different choices and hopefully we have enough to get us through the end of the year. Thank you!

✨ Student council has extended the Box Top collection through next Friday, April 19th. Student council has also announced that next Friday will also be dress up as your favorite character day. If your child would like to participate in this special day, help them think of a character they love reading about and how they could dress up to look like them (please no extra props). 

🎉 Our classroom paw jar is filled to the top with paw tickets! We will be celebrating Monday, April 15th by bringing a stuffed animal to school. Please help your child pick out an animal that fits inside of their backpack. This animal is going to help your child learn and focus throughout the day, so it needs to be able to fit easily next to them. Way to go Kinders!

🎶🎨 Fine Arts Night is coming up on Thursday, April 25th at City High Opstad Auditorium form 6:30-8:00 pm. Doors open at 6:00 and Kindergarten will need to be on stage at 6:25 as we are the first to perform. Each class will be sitting together towards the center-front of the seating until the entire night's performance has been completed. Mrs. Langenfeld is requesting that all students return to their class seating spot after performing while parents will be sitting elsewhere in the auditorium. After the entire performance is completed you will come to the class seating area to pick up your child and enjoy the beautiful art being displayed out front. It will be a wonderful evening!

📚 Reading this week focused on text features. We read many different kinds of books that showed various ways to use text features to enhance the reading experience. Many of these books were animal book, which works well with our life science unit! We also loved finding different ways to use text features so that we could show them in our own writing!

🖊 We've worked very hard on our How-To writing and have graduated from out old How-To check list to a brand new, much more professional check-list. WOW! Very impressive writers we have! Help your child notice different ways of writing by checking out other authors and styles of books: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, pop-up, cook books, teaching books, and so on!

✅ Math has brought us to a familiar topic: shapes! Many of our students know the names of our main shapes already, so we are off to a great start! We are now looking closer at the shapes to see what makes them the shape they are. We are counting sides, points, looking for them in the world around us, and maneuvering them so we can be familiar with each shape in different positions. We are working with flat (2D) and solid (3D) shapes. Help your child recognize these shapes by finding them in the world around you at home and while you are out and about!

🐦 This week in our life science unit we focused on birds. We discussed the parts of birds, where we find birds, what different birds are known for, various bird sounds, as well as how we can observe and help them. The kiddos loved making their own binoculars, so don't be surprised if they ask for two empty toilet paper rolls and some string at home! 😊 Have your child teach you all of the bird watching signals a pro uses for the best bird watching results.