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 Hoover Kindergarten News  
    Mrs. Hogenmiller       
  May 2008 ISSUE

                 

REMINDER:  STUDENTS DO NOT COME TO SCHOOL ON MAY 8^th.  This is the day when pre-school students visit the school to visit and enroll for the next year.         

FIELD TRIP                  

We will be going to The Spring House Dairy Farm.  It is a working dairy farm where we will have a guided tour.  Permission slips are due on April 30^th.    The morning class will go to the farm on Wednesday, May 14^th and will not have school on May 15^th.  The afternoon class will not have school on May 14^th and will go to the farm on May 15th.      

    

                                                                                                                                                                             

Phonemic Awareness

Do two spoken words have the same or different middle sound 

New Letters, Sounds and Words

Letters:  Q, q, U, u

Words:   one, little, are, here             

 

Students have been recording information about all of the show and tell items they shared this year.  These “Alphabet Books” will be coming home this month.  I hope you enjoy reading this with your child.

                                      

 

Math

We have incorporated learning about coins, telling time and graphing information as daily activities during calendar time.  Some focus points of the Math Workshop lessons this month are:  finding the total after a small amount (1,2,3) is added to a set of up to 7; separating one amount from another; adding or subtracting one to/from up to 10; exploring combinations of a number (e.g., “6” is 3 and 3 and also 5 and 1).

                    

Show and Tell

May 2 - Short U sound, as in “umbrella”,        at the beginning or middle of the word.

 

May 9 - Something that is the student’s favorite color.

 

May 16 - Wrapper or picture of any dairy product.  These will be kept at school to make a class collage.

 

May 23 - A favorite book.

 

May 30 - Item that shows about a favorite activity (jump rope, ball, dance outfit, photo of student playing an instrument or sport).

 

June 6 - Beach Day!!!   Students may wear a bathing suit under their clothes, bring a beach towel and one or two beach related items.

 

 

 

 

Writing   

We will be learning about the turtles living in the Hoover pond and writing reports about them.  We will also be reading and writing about many books by the author Leo Lionni.

  

SCIENCE

We were fortunate to have Mr. Murray visit with the classes to help us learn about Wet Lands and their importance.  We talked about the type of trees that grow in wet land areas.  We are also finishing our year long study of trees.  Your child will bring home their book of drawings of the tree outside of our room through the seasons.