Transitional Kindergarten News

🌍 TK Newsletter – Our African Adventure Continues! 🦩

We are wrapping up our wetlands study and beginning our final biome… the Sahara Desert! Students are excited to explore this new environment as we finish our journey across Africa. We also added another page to our special Africa books—be sure to ask your child to share what they’ve learned!

 

➕ Math Moments
We are working on simple addition and writing addition sentences. We are learning that the word “altogether” means how many in all.

Our favorite activity this week was Hippo Math! 🦛
Students:

  • Designed paper plate hippos
  • Rolled dice to determine how many teeth go on top and bottom
  • Wrote addition sentences to find the total number of teeth

 

🎨 Creative Projects
We’ve been very busy creating!

  • Cardboard Creations: We were given a new cardboard cutter and have LOVED using it! Each student cut a shape to help decorate our soft shell turtle group project 🐢
  • Goliath Tigerfish: Our 3D fish are complete—with eyes and very sharp teeth! Ask your child what a Goliath tigerfish might eat in the Congo River 🐟
  • Flamingos (2 Projects!) 🦩
    • Painted flamingos and their habitat using paint sticks
    • Created textured, layered flamingos inspired by Eric Carle’s style using tempera paint, scraping tools, and cutting techniques
  • Reed Frogs: We used tempera paint to dot and scrape beautiful patterns to complete our wetlands habitat 🐸

 

🐾 Special Visitor
Blank Park Zoo visited us! We met two African animals—a millipede and an African pygmy hedgehog.
Students also:

  • Felt okapi and zebra fur
  • Compared their hands and feet to a gorilla’s
  • Carefully touched a hedgehog quill

 

✝️ Faith & Specials

  • Mrs. Sgroi taught us The Lord’s Prayer, and we practiced saying it together
  • Mrs. Crawford has been guiding students through a multi-step lion art project in the art room 🦁

 

📅 Save the Date!
Wednesday, May 13 | 4:30–6:00 PM

Join us for our Grand Finale Open House!
Your child will give you a special tour of all their hard work, sharing what they’ve learned about African animals and biomes.

✨ Students are SO excited for this special event!
🍪 Light refreshments will be served
📨 Look for a formal invitation coming next week

 

Thank you for your continued support—we are so proud of all the learning, creativity, and excitement happening in TK!