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| Dear Parents, I hope you all had an excellent Children's Day yesterday! This week we will be celebrating another awesome aspect of childhood: Nursery Rhymes! We have learned so many rhymes this year so we want to celebrate all we have accomplished! This Friday we will have our Nursery Rhymes Party. We will play games and make some interesting foods to celebrate all the Nursery rhymes we've learned! Please remember to dress your child in costume on Friday! We have learned: Baa Baa Black Sheep, Deedle, Deedle, Dumpling, Georgie Porgie, Hey Diddle Diddle, Two Little Blackbirds, Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Jack be Nimble, Little Boy Blue, Little Miss Muffet, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Mary Mary Quite Contrary, Old Mother Hubbard, The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater,The Queen of Hearts, Sing a Song of Six Pence, Twinkle, Twinkle, Wee Willie Winkie, Down by the Station, This Little Piggy went to market, The cat came piping out of hte barn, AND This old man. I hope this helps you get an idea for a costume for your child on Friday! This week we are focusing on the long I sound in phonics and our words of the week are: new ride saw under white We are finishing our unit in plants this week and we will be moving on to our last unit! We will be studying the properties of water. In Social Studies we will also be completing our unit on Economics (money, basic needs etc...) so we will have a test later this week. Andrew's family is in charge of snacks this week. Please remember to send your child's report card back to school. Thank you! I hope you all have a great week! God Bless, Miss Wunderink | | |
| Dear Parents,
WOW! It is already turning May this week! This year is just flying by! Since we have finished studying all of our alphabet letters we are now working on long vowel sounds. Previously, we covered long-a and long-o, so this week we are focusing on long-u (ue~blue, u_e~cute, and ew~dew). Our words of the week this week are:
every
from
giving
may
then
Please remember to practice these words at home with your children.
In science we continue our unit on plants. We learned about seeds today, and we will be discussing and sorting leaves later this week. In Social Studies we continue our unit on economics. We are focusing on how we meet our basic needs (food, clothing, shelter) and what we can do with our money (spend it, save it).
We have also started practicing for kindergarten graduation already! We are learning a special poem. I will send your child's part home sometime this week so that they can practice saying it.
Remember that this weekend will be a long weekend for us. On Friday we have a half day because of Teacher development, and Monday is Children's day! Because we have the day off on Monday we will be celebrating children's day on Tuesday next week. We will also have our Nursery Rhyme Party on Friday May 9. Please think about what costume your child will wear. I'm thinking hard about which Nursery Rhyme character I will be!
I hope your child's report cards were satisfactory. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to call me at 010-3043-4271 or arrange a meeting with me through Mrs. Juhn in the office.
This week Kelly's family is in charge of snack. Thank you!
God Bless,
Miss Wunderink
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| Dear Parents, I hope you had a nice little break with your family. It certainly sounds like the kids had a great time. The students enjoyed sharing thier stories this morning! The Spiritual Retreat was a blessed time. It was great to get out of Seoul into the mountains, sing praises to our God, discuss the bible, and learn more about Him. This week we are finally back to a normal schedule! We have our words of the week this week to practice with your child: eat please pretty what where This week's words were tricky to alphabetize because we have 2 words with 3 letters that are the same (what and where)! The words are gradually getting to be more difficult sight words. This week in math we are learning about some new shapes! These are not just our regular triangles, and squares! We are focusing on 3D shapes. We already covered cylinders, cubes, and rectangular solids, so today we added cones, sphere's and pyramids to the list. If you have the opportunity look for these shapes while you are driving, or in the house. It is great practice to find these shapes in the everyday objects we use! We are also discussing probability, and fractions (1/2's and 1/4's). On May 9 we shall have a Nursery Rhyme Party. We have learned a new rhyme each week in kindergarten so it is time to celebrate all the rhymes we know! The most exciting thing about this party is that we will all get to dress up like a nursery rhyme character! Report cards should be going home very soon. Please feel free to call me if you have any questions or concerns about your child's report card. My number is 010-3043-4271. This week Paulina's family is in charge of snack. Thank you for your help! God Bless, Miss Wunderink | | |
| Dear Parents, This week is another busy week for kindergarten! We are taking the SAT, Stanford Achievement Tests, this week. This is a comprehensive evaluation of how the students are doing in kindergarten and this will also help me to evaluate my teaching practices. We will be hopefully be receiving the results of this test in May before the end of the school year so that you can see how your child performed in comparison with students in North America. This may be a difficult week for your child because the test requires sitting quietly for long periods of time. Because of this, we have spread each test throughout the week (not in the allotted 3 1/2 day time period), so that the students will be able to perform better on their tests. Please encourage your child to try their best on these tests so that we will have an accurate reflection of their knowledge.
Just a reminder, the schedule has changed for this week as well. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will be half days to accommodate the testing process. This week William's Family is in charge of snacks. Thanks for all your help! God Bless, Miss Wunderink
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| Dear Parents,
I hope you all had a blessed holiday with your children this week! I heard many exciting stories including two families who surprisingly shared a flight to Chicago! It is so good to take a week off and come back refreshed and ready to get back to work! The Mission Trip went very well in Malaysia. We worked with YWAM (Youth with a Mission) to spread God's love to the poor and sick. It was an eye-opening experience for many and it was amazing how much God blessed us through this trip!
Now we are off to the start of a busy week! We are studying our last letter of the alphabet this week: the letter Qu. This is very exciting because now we will be able to focus on some other elements of phonics like consonant blends, vowel blends and digraphs. This will give the students a head start for first grade! We will also continue practicing reading and writing as I see your children growing and improving every day. To celebrate the fact that we have completed the alphabet we will be having a party Friday afternoon! We will just play some games and celebrate our great achievement!
This week's Words of the Week are:
Funny
In
Is
Little
Sat
Practice these words at home with your children. Make sentences, spell them, chant, them or cheer them (you can ask your child how we do this in class :)
This week Kristin's family is in charge of snack. I hope you all have a great week!
God Bless,
Miss Wunderink
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