Week of September 30, 2019

Hanging out with friends in kindergarten!!!!

Reader’s Workshop

   We worked on rhyming this week during Readers Workshop. The children listened to many rhyming stories and helped put the rhyming words into the text. I think their favorite rhyming story this week was The Hungry Thing. The children listened to the story and tried to figure out what the Hungry Thing wanted to eat based on the rhyming words he was using in the story.

Writer’s Workshop

   The children are learning how knowing letter sounds can help them with their writing. We worked on stretching out words this week in order to hear as many of the sounds as we could and writing those letters down on paper to make words. At this point in the year, the children are using what we call “kid spelling”. They are writing the sounds they hear and know for words they want to write.

Theme Time

        This week we spent time talking about colors and rainbows. The children loved seeing all of their friends dressed in the same color. We had a great time making rainbows with food coloring with Mrs. Horton as well as seeing how you can make a rainbow with a CD and light. Check out our science page for our color songs that we learned this week.

Math Lessons

   This week we worked with graphing and counting. We made graphs about how many boys and girls are in our classroom and how people got to school. We are continuing to work on number formation. Many of the children can write their numbers from 0 to 10 but still confuse the direction of certain numbers (ie. they flip them around backwards). Number writing is a great thing to work on at home. Please check the mathematics page of this blog for our number rhymes to help with number formation.

Morning Meeting

GREETING: Handshakes

ACTIVITY: Color Songs (see the Science page on this blog for our color songs)

Book Orders

   In your child's home/school folder, you will find the October book orders. If you would like to place an order, fill out the back of the book order form (with your child’s name) and send your order and payment back to school by October 11th. You may pay with cash or a check made out to Scholastic Book Clubs. You may order online if you would like at www.scholastic.com with our class code which is DVTHH. When ordering online, you pay with a credit card.

****There is also a Scholastic Book Fair flyer. CES will be holding their annual book fair starting at the end of next week. The book fair will be held in the music room before school, after school and during Open House.****