April 12, 2026

   Kindergarten Announcements

ELA 

We finished our Train module this week by writing

paragraphs about subways and completing a class

book about our favorite kind of trains.  Students chose

between passenger trains, cargo trains, subways, and

monorails  before writing  a complete sentence about it

for our class book. Finally we read our class book together

and added it to our class library.  

We also learned to read words that contained the

welded sounds ink,ank,onk,unk and the new words goes,does.

Math 

Students are identifying shapes as flat (2D) or solid (3D)

as they build and sort shapes.  They are learning the

names of common 3 dimensional shapes.  Students

were also introduced to the language to compare

weight and capacity.

P2: Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the ability to move past being injured,

and allow yourself to reconcile with the person who

hurt you.  We practiced apologizing by saying  “I’m sorry. 

How can I make it better?” and then forgiving that person

by saying “I forgive you”

Science:  

This week, we learned about animals and their survival needs.

Our lesson was called, “Why does a woodpecker peck wood?”

We learned how every animal has the need to find food.

When we see animals in the wild, very often they are looking

for food.You can encourage your child’s curiosity at home!

It’s great for a child to have the experience of keeping and

helping sustain a critter that’s been caught outside. It could

be as simple as keeping a bug in a jar, even just for a couple of

days. Ask your child what kinds of things the creature might

need. You can guide them to realize that it may need holes

poked in a lid (for air). Together, you can search online to

find out what the animal eats, and your child can go out and

find food to give it. Make sure to release the critter after a

few days!

 

Rainbow Words

Please keep practicing these important words at home every

night.

Sight Word List

Centers:  

We enjoyed Dr. Seuss centers this week by cutting, sorting and

gluing rhyming words, counting Dr. Seuss characters and

graphing them,  playing a Dr. Suess fishing game to practice

addition fluency, and playing a CVC word dice game.  

Classroom needs:

Sight Words:  

I, am, a, the, an, and, is, of, go, no, so, to, do, my,

said, into, that, not, she, he, me, as, you, are, was,

see, for, or, his, her, look, good, they, says, all, like,

each, little, have, more, from, out, about, put, very,

be, get, who, what, when, goes, does, 

Snack/S&T Leaders:

April 13: Leon

April 14: Jack

April 15: Kaleb

April 16: Ava

April 17: Jaylen

Upcoming events:

April 24:  Planetarium (no parents needed)

May 15:  Hesston Train Museum 

May 29:  Last day of Kindergarten 😢