Kindergarten: Mrs. Jessica Hartley

Jessica Hartley
Room 105
jhartley@seaspc.org

WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN!

WEEK OF:  2/20/12

Lent begins this week and Kindergarten will be working hard to try and live the way Jesus wants us to!

 GARDEN OF RENEWAL WINNERS 2011-2012

Kira Casane-Kindness

Jeremy Santopadre- Joy

Zoe Johnson-Peace

Gabriella Case-Self Control

Jessy Rodriguez-Love

Natalia (Nia) Alicea-Faithfulness

This Week…

From the Language Arts Corner: We are reading Mayday! Mayday! and letter Xx spelled and final sound in a word (/ks/); cause/effect; Captital letters and question marks in a question sentence; correcting sentences and rewriting them; continuing color words: yellow, blue, green (review blending sounds for red)

From the Math Corner: Finishing up subtraction and taking a cumulative assessment on addition and subtraction

From the Religion Corner: Beginning our chapter on Lent; Acrostic poem using the letters from Lent

From the Social Studies Corner: The plains and mountain regions of our Earth

From the Science Corner: Living things

Homework

Math Homework: subtraction and addition

Language Arts: letter Xx; correcting a sentence and draw about it

Due: Friday, Feb. 24th

Reminders

 ~If you are interested in volunteering in the school you must complete the Protecting God’s Children Class, and you must be fingerprinted.

~Please do not hesitate to email me with any questions or concerns at jhartley@seaspc.org

~ 4th grade is sponsoring a Lenten Food Drive–each week during Lent they will collect different items.  This week is FRUIT.  Please donate any nonperishable fruit items such as canned fruit, juice, or dried fruit.  Send it in with your child to our classroom. Thank you!!

SIGHT WORDS

There are some words that we cannot sound out.  We call these words sight words because we learn to recognize them by sight.  Each week we will be focusing on different sight words.  Our sight words this week are:

yellow, blue, green, for

Keep working on your sight word lists! Many students are already up to List 7!! Good Job!!  Please keep these lists in your child’s folder.  After they have mastered each list I will send the next one home.  PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!!