I Have, Who Has

In Math, we played I Have, Who Has with shapes.  The kids had to read their card and whoever had their shape then read theirs.  We went around the carpet until everyone had a turn.  Then we mixed up our cards and played again.  

Watch Dogs

Brady Burgett was a watchdog dad today.  He came and worked with us this afternoon.  He helped a friend finish his work and then he joined in on a math game with some boys.  

Just Hanging Out

Today at recess.  

News

Kindergarten News

Week of Sep. 12^th-16th, 2016

Back to School Night will be THIS Thursday, Sep. 15^th in your child’s classroom.  PK-2 meets from 5:30-6:30.  This is a parent only evening.

Each day please send a water bottle, healthy snack, towel, and daily folder.  When packing a snack, please send something simple, such as goldfish.  One snack is plenty.  Also, please do not send juice with your snack.  We are trying hard to keep our new building nice and clean.  The children have access to their water bottles during snack.

Attached is information from our counselor, Jenn Buchert, on nominating your child for the Gifted and Talented program.  In kindergarten, we rely heavily on parent input for this, as we’ve only known your child for a short time. 

This week we will explore the following:

Theme: The Colors Around Me!

Reading:  Shared reading and Interactive read-alouds of books focus on color. We will use what we know and clues from the text to ask and answer questions. We will identify characters and sequence the text, as well.

Writing:  We will continue with King and Queen of the Day and list writing.  This week we will make literacy connections to text while we create lists utilizing colors.

Word Wall Words:  red, green, yellow, black, purple, white, can, see

Word Study: We will focus on the letter sounds of G and T.

Math: Our focus this week will be on counting to 20 (from any starting point), counting from 10 backwards, working on correctly writing 0-5, Identifying 2D shapes and describing them using the appropriate attributes (circle, square, rectangle, oval, triangle) and graphing.

Science: We will continue exploring like a scientist and observing using our 5 senses!

Social Studies:  We will continue to explore our roles in our homes and our classroom.  We will talk about key community helpers in our world.  Happy Constitution Day on September 17^th!

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

·        Monday:  Make a list of things that start with G & T

·        Tuesday:  Practice numeral writing in the bubbles tonight at bath time!

·        Wednesday:  Write the color words using the appropriate crayon/marker!  Teach mom or dad a color song you have learned.

·        Thursday:  Write your name 5 times using rainbow colors.  Did you use an upper case letter for the first letter and the rest lower case?

Friday: Bring back your library books and reading log on Monday!

Word Study

We began word detective this week with our word study.  We were detectives searching the room for words that started with a B or an M.  They did really well for their first time.  

Number Formation Poems

Number Formation

This week we are practicing number formation.  We are doing the numbers 0-9.  Today we watched the number formation poems and practice writing numbers on our partners backs with our fingers.