Week of September 16th

We are having so much fun in kindergarten! It is so nice to see all of these happy faces every morning. 

Here is an update on our week. Please be sure to check the other pages on this blog each week to see even more information.

Reader’s Workshop

     This week our focus was on Concepts About Print. That means that we talked about and learned more about where a reader starts to read, which direction they go as they read and how to go down to the next line. These are all skills the children will use as we start to read in the classroom.

Writer’s Workshop

     The children started drawing pictures and using some words to tell stories on paper. We will continue to work on these stories over the next few weeks and they will be here for everyone to enjoy in October at Open House.

Theme Time

        Throughout the kindergarten year, we will talk about the 16 Habits of Mind. We will cover 2 every month.  For the past two weeks we have worked on what it looks like and sounds like when you are managing your impulsivity. We discussed what our bodies look like and feel like when we are being impulsive and how our actions make others feel. We created a stoplight to remind us to Stop, Think and then Choose a behavior. It is always a choice to be impulsive but there is probably a better choice if you just Stop and Think.This week we have been talking about being persistent. It is great to hear kindergartners give friendly reminders to classmates when it seems like they are giving up. It is great to hear the children say to each other... “Be persistent, you will get it. Don’t give up.” This week we started to talk about Managing Impulsivity.

Math Lessons

    We have continued to learn how to form the numbers from 0 to 10. In your child's home folder, you will find a sheet with the rhymes we use to help us remember their formation. These rhymes are also on the math page of this blog. Practicing number writing is a great thing to work on at home to support our work at school. The children are being very persistent in forming their numbers and making sure they are not written backwards.

Morning Meeting

GREETING: Name Cards

ACTIVITY: Just Like Me!

Our Daily Schedule

  ***Please have your child bring his/her library book back to school by Wednesday every week. If you finish with the library book prior to Wednesday, feel free to send it back to school early. The children get very disappointed when they are not able to pick a new library book because they forgot their old one. There is a container inside the classroom door for library books.

***Please make sure your child wears sneakers to school on Tuesdays and Fridays for PE.

Muscle Word

This week’s muscle word was…

me, be,  we

As muscle words are introduced the children are expected to spell and read them correctly. It would be great practice for the children to read and write their muscle words at home. Our Muscle words so far are…. I, a, yes, no and me (we, be).

The new muscle words as well as any previous muscle words can always be found on the Writer's Workshop page of this blog.

Important Dates

Don't forget to check the "Important Dates" page of this blog. I will try to list all important, upcoming dates by month on that page in order to give you a heads up about things that are happening at school.