The Kindergarten Crew News

We are very pleased to have Miss Wilkes as our student teacher this semester. She is a senior student at The University of West Georgia and as soon as she completes her time with us she will graduate! She has added much to our room and we all will hate to see her go!

Spring is here! We have a busy few months ahead of us! Report cards go home April 2^nd. This will be the third time this year that you have gotten a formal report and we hope that you have a clear picture of what skills your child needs to improve. Our year together is rapidly coming to an end there is so much to learn, think, and do! The Take Home Readers we are sending home are giving the children the practice that they need. It is so important for the children to practice these newly emerging reading skills. The field trip to the aquarium has given us so much to think and write about. Be sure to check your child’s folder as well as the school monthly calendar for upcoming events.

F.Y.I

Our Easter Egg Hunt and Party is Friday, April 3rd. We will hunt eggs at 10:30 and then have a sack picnic lunch from the lunchroom afterwards.

Spring Break is April 6^th –April 10th.

Farm Field Trip is Thursday, April 16th.

Friday, May 8th^t is our field trip to Tanner’s Beach

Wednesday, May 14^th is kindergarten field day

AND

OUR KINDERGARTEN MUSICAL is THURSDAY, May 28^th at 7Pm in the BHS gym

Friday, May 28^th Blazer’s Educational Animals will be here for the Kindergarten students.

Our activity schedule for the months of April, May, and June are:

Week of April 13^th ~Computer with Mrs. Seagle

Weeks of April 20 and April 27th~Art with Mr. Barrow

Weeks of May 4^th and May 11th~ Music with Mrs. Lipscomb

Weeks of May 18^th and May 26^th and June 6th P.E. with Coach Mouser.

During P.E. weeks be sure your child wears tennis type shoes. We are concentrating on building our sight word vocabulary and blending sounds into words. At this point in the year the children should be “chunking” several words together as they read rather than reading word by word. We are also stressing understanding what we are reading. Thank you for all the support you have given us this year. Please continue to stay involved in your child’s school experiences.

Our character stars this year:

Chloe Jackson for Responsibility; Malik Hart for Honesty; Shoya Nagashima for respect; Jamie Hindman for generosity; Ethan Baker for forgiveness and Hope Atkinson for compassion. In March we are focusing on patience.

^{We have a very difficult time choosing our stars. May of the children exhibit the character trait! It’s a wonderful dilemma to have!}

^{Happy Birthday!!!!!}

^{March April May July}

^{G’marious Auldyn Cymone Will}

^{Shoya Lacy}

^{Nate Madison}

^{Mrs. Fortner}

Skills:

Language Arts	We will increase our sight vocabulary and practice one to one matching of written words with spoken words as well as improving our listening skills We listen with a purpose. We will blend and segment words. Our comprehension skills involve: sequencing events of a story, main idea, and literary elements We are focusing on written expression- begin with a capital letter, spaces between words and end punctuation marks .Most of the children need to improve on handwriting skills-correct formation of letters!
Math		Measurement; Time to hour and half hour; fractions; addition and subtraction
Unit Time		Maps and globes; weather; gravity; Easter; spring; living and nonliving; plants; earth material; community helpers; insects, and animal babies

You can contact us at:

jo.fortner@bremencs.com

Remember LEARNING NEVER EVER STOPS!!!