Curriculum Night

Jack climbs the beanstalk, but the giant turns out to be a healthy eater!  Together they prepare a meal that includes all the food groups.  The students enjoyed this twist in the story and the big beautiful color illustrations.

This year's whole school Curriculum Night is April 2nd.  The theme is American Treasures and Kindergarten has chosen the specific theme of America's Breadbasket.  Topics will cover farming, wheat and bread production, and plant life cycles.  To set the foundation for some of these topics, this week we will be taking a look at good nutrition and the basic food groups.  

Each morning we share what we have done to keep ourselves healthy since the previous afternoon.  We have included healthy eating, exercise, brushing our teeth, getting plenty of rest, and visiting the doctor or dentist.  In Physical Education we are building jump roping skills.

Next week we will be making a model to help us visualize where in the world we are (planet, continent, country, state, city, home.)

Alivia's Collection

Alivia brought 100 poker chips!

Roan's Collection

Roan brought 100 rocks!

Lilie's Collection

Lilie brought 100 bottle caps!

Harrison's Collection

Harry brought 100 pennies!

Math Games

A friendly game of Number Bingo before the start of our day

Coming Home Soon: Guided Reading Books

Beginning February 24, students will choose 3 of their guided reading books to bring home to read with you each week.  The students are very excited to show off their new skills.  Here are some important things to remember:

• Books will come home on Monday or Tuesday and should be back by Friday so that we can review them all and switch out for the following week
• These are books  the students have read at least twice before
• Please read the books with your child several times during the week.
• If your child seems to be memorizing the words, make a game of pointing to only one word on each page and having your child read the isolated word
• Use the last page of the book to inspire further discussion
• Ask your child questions in which the answer only comes from the picture or text
• Have fun building skill and confidence
• Please handle books with the greatest of care - we are trying to build a library of these leveled readers

Crazy Over Band Bracelets

The students have been teaching each other to make fishtail bracelets using their fingers!  

This is a wonderful activity for fine motor development, patterning, and working together.  I have purchased a loom and we will see where that will take us.  The boys have been interested too, even though there aren't any in this picture.  Below is a YouTube video that shows how to turn a plastic fork into a loom for those whose fingers tend to get sore.

Adalyn's 100 Seashells

The Class Looks on While Adalyn Counts 100 Seashells

Catholic Schools Week Mini-classes

Catholic Schools Week was concluded with mini-classes presented by local experts.  Younger students had four 30-minute rotations, while the older students were able to make choices about the presentations they attended.  We learned a lot and had a great time!

Music with Marvin Merservey

The Water Cycle, 

with Sarah Luthy and Jackie Koch from Farm Bureau

Healthy Snacks, 

with Debbie Hammer from BC Health Department

First Aid, with Brian Gallaher and Chad Kunkel 

form Mt. Sterling Fire Department

A big THANK YOU to Nancy Mitchell who organized the afternoon!