This is a very busy month at the Garden School. Starting tomorrow, we will have a contest for learning our full names, our parents’ full names, our addresses, our phone numbers and our birth dates. See who can learn first, get it right and remember it! This is a significant safety issue.

We are focusing on the family this month. We are learning about families. We will talk about our families and who makes our families.

Kindergarten children will get a new book this week: Frog on Log. We are looking at the OG words. Please help your child read this book and learn the rhyming words for a spelling test on Thursday.

Clay will be sent home with Kindergarten children who need help strengthening hands. This is a tool and a toy. This clay must stay in the bag. Directions will be sent with the clay.

As we increase our words from our readers, your child will be able to make many new sentences. We will work on these sentences in the classroom as well, and prizes will be given out for the best and brightest sentences. There is a number on the bag of laminated words in your child’s work bag that has a number on it. That number is the number of words your child should have in the zipped bag. Please take time to count these words every so often. A broken tool is a broken tool. We want our things in perfectly neat, usable working order! It makes a splendid work ethic.

In Music, we will be working on folk songs and American Songs this month.

We hope to get a field trip to a natural dairy this month. Working on that now!

This month we will be welcoming three guests to speak with the children about the splendid things they do.

At the end of the month, we will have a book fair and Grandparents’ Tea.

Write to you next week!