Saturday, April 27, 2013

"Bonnie's Big Day" - short o - Frogcatcher Farm

Week of April 29th
Book of the Week - Bonnie's Big Day
Sound of the Week - review of all and short o
Habit - Fortitude
Moms of the Month - Alex Holck and Anne Marie Stanley

Important Events this Week:
Please be sure that your child returns their Book of the Week Journal each Monday morning.

Frogcatcher Farm - Wednesday, May 1st - Our class will not be attending chapel - (with permission from school administrators)!
Please plan to meet at Mrs. Lee's house (195 Fernly Park Drive, Johns Creek, 30022) at 8:30 a.m. for breakfast, Book of the Week and prayer time.  Tina Malcolm has offered to send sign up email for breakfast items.  Mrs. Jernigan and Mrs. Lee are making farm animal waffles.

Attire for Frogcatcher - casual clothes (shorts or jeans with tennis shoes) - school uniform is not required.

Please continue to pray that our class will finish well.  We are picking up the pace with review of all letters, all short vowel sounds and multi-sensory activities to reinforce the letter sounds.  On Monday, we will begin year end Handwriting Books - each year, on the own, the children are delighted in the progress that they have made with their letter formation.  
Mrs. Jernigan has many math review activities.  The children are doing well with counting by 2s, basic addition with manipulatives and telling time to the hour and half hour.






Saturday, April 20, 2013

Your rod and your staff...they comfort me.

Book of the Week - "The Story of Ping"
Sounds of the Week - Review of all
Habit - Fortitude
Moms of the Month - Alex Holck and Anne Marie Stanley

I've been sitting here for ten minutes making a list in my head of all the great things that we will be doing in Kindergarten this week....while two families in our school are experiencing great pain, uncertainty and the harsh realities of our earthly lives.  One of these families is the Jernigans. Rhonda and her husband Cary have gone to be with Cary's mom as she grows weaker.  Cary's mom, Nancy, is a believer and will be sitting at the feet of our Heavenly father in a short time.     Please, please join me in praying for Rhonda and family as they walk this path as well as for Pam McCraney and her family.  This is what the body of Christ and more intimately, our Covenant school body is about!  As Rhonda always says,
"the Word is TRUTH" and His promises sustain...for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. (Ps. 23)

Hug your children REAL tight tonight.  
They are a JOY in the lives of so many - especially their kindergarten teachers.

The academic week will work itself out....it always does. 

Kay 



Monday, April 15, 2013

Building our card deck of Sounds - e - Seven Chinese Brothers

Week of April 15-18

Sounds of the Week - continuing review vowel sounds and review of all
Book of the Week - The Seven Chinese Brothers
Moms of the Month - Anne Marie Stanley and Alex Holck
Habit - Fortitude!

This Week:
Thanks to the Hortons for hosting our last class meeting tonight.  Your home is warm and wonderful.  Thanks to all who attended!  We have had an awesome group of families this year.  

Wednesday, April 17th - ASO at First Baptist Duluth
Chaperones should arrive around 8:20.  We will go to restroom and then move to cars.
We will send entire class the list of who will be riding where.  Each chaperone will carry all emergency info for their riders.

Wednesday after returning to school - William's Birthday Blessings!

Class Playdate on Thursday......?

Will send list of dates on info sheet tonight in next Blog.

Pray that we finish well!








Saturday, April 6, 2013

After Spring Break....A Trip to France with Madeline!

Week of April 8-11

Sound of the Week - Vowel Sound Review  
Book of the Week - Madeline
Habit - Thinking
Moms of the Month - Anne Marie Stanley and Alex Holck's 3rd time!  

BIrthday Blessing for Jack - on April 11th (his birthday is the 12th)!
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Jernigan! April 11th!

Hope your Easter Break was wonderful!  Can't wait to see the children bright and early Monday morning.

We will jump right into our year end activities on Monday.  The children will review the vowel sounds and continue to build their sound deck of cards.  We will count by 2s and travel in two straight lines (like Madeline).

Madeline is always a favorite book as we study the culture of France, including language, landmarks and food.  It provides an excellent review of rhyme which is important for understanding word families and early decoding.

We might even have a visit from Miss Clavel!  

Looking forward to our last parent meeting on April 15th at the Horton's home.  Please see Allyson's email from last week about what to bring.

We love your children and want to finish well over the next 6 weeks!