Literacy:

Our Weekly News - Friday, September 18th

Dear Families, 

Even though these first two weeks of school have been a lot about routines and procedures, we have had such a great time in kindergarten so far!  Each child in this class brings such joy to our room!  It has been so much fun building our classroom community and getting to know each other! Plus... each child posted a picture and a drawing to his/her SeeSaw account today... and they are starting to enter their lunch orders independently....HUGE SUCCESS!                                   (ordering lunch)

Literacy

So far we have focused on the letters Tt, Aa, Bb, Hh, Nn, Mm, Rr, Ll, and Ii.  We have also been using hand signals to help us remember the sounds those letters make. We also learned to read the sight words "I" and "can".                                                                                                 (working in our phonics notebooks)

Each week we will be learning a new poem.  Throughout the week we will be practicing it and creating actions that go with it.  We will be gluing the poem in our poetry notebook as well as reading them in books.  If your child brings home one of these books, see if he/she can point to each word as he/she recalls and reads the poem.

A few of our read alouds have been Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Chrysanthemum.  With these stories we focused on making predictions,  retelling the story, and understanding what we read.  We were also able to make connections with these stories and tie them to our own names.  

      

Writing

We are learning how to write our names starting with an uppercase letter followed by all lowercase letters.  This can tricky, but we will get better with more practice!  We've also spent each day learning how to draw pictures using shapes and lines as well as how to fill an entire area with the details of one scene.  

    

Math

We have focused on counting 1-10 forwards and backwards and using a ten frame, identifying numbers, and identifying shapes along with their attributes.  Plus we have been doing math with our shoes!  Who knew we could learn to describe, sort, count, graph and identify data from the graph (most, fewest, equal) with our shoes?! 

This week we started Student of the Week with Mrs. Fry and got to know a little more about her.  Please see this tab at the top of this blog so you can see when it will be your child's turn!  If there's a conflict with the week your child has, just let me know, it can be changed.