Transitional Kindergarten News

 

This week we continued exploring Africa and its amazing animals!

Literacy & Science

• We read both fiction and nonfiction books about giraffes and elephants.
• Students practiced listening for all the sounds in a word (turtle talking) and worked on writing those sounds.
• In handwriting, we reviewed the letter Aa.

Art & Projects

• Students created Gold Banded Forester butterflies for the woodland area of our Africa display. They colored the back in shades of brown and added eye spots to scare away predators, then designed the front using colorful tissue paper. We will learn even more about butterflies as spring approaches.
• Students finished their Paul Klee–inspired elephants, using oil pastels to highlight the watercolor squares inside their elephant.
• After reading Giraffes Can’t Dance, students did a directed drawing of a dancing giraffe and painted a background using tempera paints. They also responded to the story by drawing something they cannot do yet but hope to learn with practice.
• Students practiced following directions while cutting and pasting a cone-shaped giraffe.
• We completed our paper plate parrots by adding colorful wing and tail feathers.

Religion

• Mrs. Sgroi taught the students about Daniel and the Lion’s Den.
• The class is also practicing the Angel of God prayer.

Special Event

• We enjoyed watching the middle school performance of Beauty and the Beast. It was a wonderful show!

Have a wonderful Spring Break! We look forward to seeing everyone after the holiday.