OSLS Kindergarten News
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Feb. 13, 2014
Special Activities this Week:
★ Students learned about the trust of a poor woman who gave all that she had as an offering to
the Lord. We can trust that God will take care of our needs as we willingly give our time, talents,
and treasures.
★ They made a sight word book called A Valentine. Students should save the sight words “could”
and “for” in their word boxes. These will be on the second trimester sight word test. Please refer
to the word list on the kindergarten website and newsletter for practice. Testing will take place
next week.
★ Students sorted valentines that contained words with short a and short o. Then they sounded
out the words that they sorted and recorded their results.
★ They used the letters from the word “valentines” and manipulated them to see how many little
words they could make with those letters.
★ Also they played a game called “Roll a Word” to make CVC words. After recording the results,
they specified if the CVC word they printed made a real or nonsense (Dr. Seuss) word.
★ We continued to review coins and values. I will test the children next week. They will need to
be able to identify each coin by the pictures on the heads and tails sides. They will be given a
paper with the words: penny, nickel, dime and quarter and they will need to write each word by the
corresponding coin pictures. They will also need to write the value of each coin.
★ The students are also working on concepts of time. We did a number of “experiments” to see
what takes more or less time. We also talked about the position of the sun at dawn, afternoon, and
dusk.
★ It was fun for the students to make paper “cuckoo” clocks. After decorating them, the students
manipulated the clock hands to match specified times. We also watched a number of learning
videos that helped the students learn to tell time on both analog and digital clocks. I will also test
the students on telling time to the hour next week as well.
Upcoming Events
Thanks so much to everyone that has helped prepare materials with the K Crew group. Your time and
effort to make books and games for kindergarten is greatly appreciated!!
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Second Trimester Sight word tests will be given. Other second trimester assessments will
also be administered. Please make sure your child is prepared and has adequate sleep. Thanks.
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Homework
Memory Work for Fri., February 21 is: “Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good.” Psalm 107:1
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New Books to save in your child’s book box to practice reading regularly:
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New Words for Second Trimester Test (Children will be assessed on these beginning Feb. 17.)
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ther type
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how, put, all, out, when, to, will, of, many, where, so, find, came, but, want, they, he,
she, into, your, be, home, soon, for, love, could
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First Trimester Words
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I, can, the, go, up, red, yellow, green, blue, orange, see, brown, gray, white, pink, black,
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purple, this, is, me, we, like, and, an, a, am, as, has, my, it, in, not, that, sees, have,
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yes, no, look, at, on, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, was, do
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★ Help your child count independently to 100.
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are your child recognize numbers in the teens. Practice the concept that the teens are one
set of ten and so many more ones.
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Help your child with short vowel sounds. Practice CVC words. Examples: bag, beg, big, bog, bug.
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★Have your child listen to a sentence that you say. Have him/her count the words. Then have them
look at a sentence. Have him/her count the words.
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★Have your child tell you how many syllables are in words: snow = 1 syllable, snowman = 2 syllables
snowmobile = 3 syllables, etc. (Note that even though snowman has 2 syllables, it is only one word.) 2