Week 34

Dear TK Parents and Friends,

This week in TK we are learning the following:

• Mother Mary
• All Prayers
• Sight Words: All 20 words
• Writing to 10 
• Counting to 30
• Adding to 5 (or 10)
• All letters - review of all letters (writing, sounds, recognition)
• Seeds and Plants
• Vocabulary: germination, pollination, seedling, soil
• Identify the 5 needs of a plant
• The Three Piggy Opera - memorizing the songs and how to "act" out the play

There are about 5 weeks of school left.  I will be doing a lot of follow up assessments between now and the end of the year.  

Some of the children are struggling with the concept of how many are in all when we are using 2 different object to add.  For example 2 red cubes + 3 blue cubes; how many are in all?  Some of the kids are counting the same color only rather than the red and blue.  I will continue to practice this skill with them until the end of the year.  For those students that are comfortable with this concept will move on to adding to 10 and subtraction.

I had a proud teacher moment this morning when the children and I were talking.  I asked the question, "how many of you can now read?"  Every hand in the class were up in the air.  I reminded them that at the beginning of the year, only one or two hands went up.  Now that we are close to the end, ALL kids raised their hand.  Thank you so much for working hard with all your children!

I can't believe how fast the year is going.  I am enjoying every moment of this year! 

Thank you so much for all you do!

Mrs. Paragas