Kinder Weekly Updates Q4W6 (April 20-25)

 Hello, Kindergarten Griffins!

We hope everyone had a great weekend!  Please be sure to send in the classics to keep on the correct date, so that your child has a book to follow along in (dates listed below). We started Mouse Soup today, 4/20.  

We will be collecting library books this week as there are no more visits for the year, please make sure they are turned in ASAP. Please reach out to the front desk, if you do not know what book you are missing. You can send in $20 to the front desk (in an envelope), replace the book (labeled with a note), or visit the PSO Website to pay the missing book fee (link found below). 

Lower School Book Replacement

Looking Ahead: 

Kindergarten Promotion

Each student will wear a graduation cap and a tassel along with their Great Hearts uniform. Your child’s cap and tassel can be ordered via the following link: 2026 Kindergarten Promotion Ceremony Cap & Tassel These are one size fits all and sold as a set for $12.  The set will be delivered to school.  Please complete your order by Monday, May 11th (Deadline) so we will be ready for Promotion!

Only 82 out of 117 Families have ordered this cap and tassel. These are required. Please reach out to your teacher for any special circumstances. We will be reaching out to individual families by the end of the week so please order as soon as possible, thank you!

Additional details, including times, will be sent at a later date, but you may mark your calendars for Wednesday, May 20^th. 

Each ceremony will conclude with light refreshments for the families and scholars to enjoy before the students return to class.  

All scholars will need to arrive at school on time as usual, and we will have our regular mid-morning/afternoon schedule following the ceremonies.  Great Hearts scholars complete academic lessons through the last day of school, so we will have lessons and activities planned for the remainder of our ceremony day.  

Classics to Keep

As you purchase these books and prepare to send them in, please help us preserve our class Sense of Wonder as we explore these stories and have the scholars experience them for the first time in class.  We will be sending them home as we finish each book, and we love when the students enjoy them again and again at home.  Stated simply, please do not read the books with your child before we read them in class.  

Below is a list of all 5 books we will read in the upcoming weeks, along with the ISBN.  Please try to purchase the same ISBN as we will be using in class so that all students will have the same page numbers to follow along as we read together.  All books are readily available on Amazon and at Barnes and Noble, for about $5 each.  

Mouse Soup                                978-0064440417
Mouse Tales                               978-0064440134
The Grasshopper on the Road    978-0064440943

It is important that each student have their own copy at school to complete with the readings for Literature class each day. Please only send in one book at a time and label the book with your child's name (inside cover or on the front- we already have a few lost by the cubbies).  Thank you!

Book order and Dates:

Mouse Soup- 4/20 

Mouse Tales- 4/27 (Next Monday!)

Grasshopper on the Road- 5/11

This Week: 

Reading Bags/Check-Ins:

Reading logs still need to be signed and completed each night for homework.  Please make sure that your child brings their reading bags back to school each day in their backpack.  It will vary week by week when your child reads with their teacher and how often. Your child will receive a new list or book, as the teacher assess for fluency and comprehension when reading with each scholar. 

Please note that due to the short 4-day week, we will only be doing one reading check-in. 

This Week Academics:

Math Skills

• Ch. 12- Numbers to 100
• Skip counting
• Counting to 100 by 10s
• Counting on from any given number to 100
• Recognizing numbers to 100

Language Arts Skills

• Spalding Phonograms: no new phonograms (finished for the year)
• Spelling Words: had, over, must, make, street, say, come
• Identify letter names
• Isolating sounds in words
• Identify phonogram sounds
• Identifying rhyming words
• Letter formation/pencil grip, writing phonograms on paper
• Distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters; naming letters
• Identifying rules and markings on spelling words.

Grammar

• 
  

Literature

Mouse Soup

• Problem/Solution
• Point of View
• Annotations

This week book: Mouse Soup 

Next week book: Mouse Tales, Monday, April 27th

Core Saying

none

Poetry

A Diller, A Dollar

History/Science

• Science:
• 
  

• History:
• American Symbols
• The American Flag
• Statue of Liberty
• White House
• Liberty Bell

Homework Reminders

• Be sure to read daily for 20 minutes; 60 minutes this week. Reading Logs will be collected Thursday. Please record on the Reading Log page. If you miss a night, please record 0 minutes and initial rather than leaving it blank.
• Spalding handwriting practice. Spalding homework will continue to be in the Written Phonogram and Spelling Word Review format-please read the GH logo homework sheet for instructions.  On Monday-Tuesday scholars write the list of phonograms and words once; on Wednesday in preparation for our spelling test the list is written twice.
• Memorize poem by Friday!
• Friendly reminder that you can find the phonogram video links by visiting this link and scrolling to the bottom of the page.
• Phonogram cards: Spalding Education – Your student's literacy begins with you

Upcoming Assessment

• WPR Assessment – Wednesday, April 22
• Spelling Assessment – Thursday, April 23

Upcoming Events

• April 24 ~ No School; Battle of Flowers
• May 1 ~ Spring Concert

Have a wonderful week!

Together for our children - The GHNO Kindergarten Teachers