Jr. Kindergarten News

This week was FILLED with birthday celebrations.  We started the week with Johnny Appleseed's birthday, on Tuesday we enjoyed Zachary's and we ended with Brinley's on Wednesday.  Needless to say this has been a very busy week.  During our study of Johnny Appleseed we learned that his real name in John Chapman.  He lived about 200 years ago and he lived playing outdoors and planting things.  As he move west he would plant appleseeds and when they became little saplings he would sell them to settlers moving west.  He also planted many orchards of his own.  We enjoyed learning about different types of apples and tasting three of them in class.  The yellow, red and greed apples were all so delicious, however, we all had our favorite.  We made a pictograph the showed that the class favorite was the red and green leaving the yellow apple with only one vote.  Come by and see our graph hanging on the bulletin board outside our room.  We also made patterns using pictures that represented Johnny Appleseed and read a story about a little red house with no windows, no doors and a star inside. 

Our sight word flash cards are almost complete we just have to add our color words and they will be ready to be sent home.  We have learned I, like and the.  Next week we will learn and.  Your child should have brought home two books this week.  Baby Bear's Family is a pre-decodable book that was sent home early in the week.  Friday the students should be bringing the decodable book The Party.  Their homework is to read to anybody or anything that they can get to sit still and listen.

Next week begins the month of October, which brings with it many exciting events.  Most of them you should have received in the flyer that explains all the celebrations we will have this year.  However, two new ones that we just confirmed this week are the trip to the Pumpkin Patch at First United Methodist Church on October 14th and a visit from the Temple Fire Department on October 18th (pending no emergencies).

The first of these celebrations will be this coming Tuesday.  St. Francis Day is a day the commemorates St. Francis.  He is the Saint of Animals.  As a young man he loved animals so much that he would rescue injured animals and nurse them back to health.  We remember him on this day by offering a blessing to our pets.  You may bring your pets on Tuesday morning to the big field across Main St. for a blessing.  We ask that pets be brought and taken home by parents.  They may not stay at school during the day.

We start a new lesson next week focusing on people in the work place.  We will concentrate on the /m/ sound make another class book about Fall.