We have been very busy wrapping up our projects that will be displayed at our Kindergarten Museum next week. We hope you are able to visit our museum on Wednesday from 8:30-9:15am to see some of the children’s amazing art work! Admission is one penny! Each Kindergarten classroom will be a different exhibit room. One room will have all the students’ portraits, one will have Egyptian art, one will have contemporary art, and the other two rooms will be full of the students’ Impressionist artwork and some multicultural artwork too. It’s all going to look amazing! The students have much to be proud of! The students will be available to give you a tour during your visit to the museum. If you know you aren’t going to be able to make it, please let me know so I can be sure to have another person available for your child to show around.
Our focus this past week was on Egyptian art. I brought in pictures and some artifacts from my trip to Egypt a few years ago and the students made pyramids, mummies, and even wrote their names in hieroglyphs. They enjoyed learning about animal mummies and Egyptian pharaohs. We also made animal sculptures out of model magic.
The students have enjoyed working with measurement and making comparisons in math this week. They particularly enjoyed the lesson on capacity and experimenting to see which containers held the most water. If your son/daughter asks to play with water bottles and measuring cups in the bathtub...that’s probably why! We started a new topic in math today on sorting, classifying, and categorizing data. It will be an easier topic and a nice break for the students.
I checked students’ addition fluency math facts this week. They have been making great progress! I will send the subtraction math facts home next week for them to start practicing. I would encourage you to continue practicing the addition facts so they don’t forget them.
I’m looking forward to seeing you at the Museum on Wednesday. Don’t forget your pennies! I’m also looking forward to our conferences which start next week and go into the following week. Please check the schedule and be sure to be prompt! Thanks!
I hope you have a wonderful long, holiday weekend!
Melanie Duncan
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