News from Mrs. Vensko’s Classroom

We had a wonderful week! The class is really starting to learn how to follow all the routines and procedures! I keep telling them that they are making me “one happy teacher!”

Upcoming Events

9/29 Field Trip to Plymouth Orchard (Permission slip coming home Monday)

10/7 Outdoor Movie Night (Green Flier came home today with more information)

Agenda for the Week

Letters: This week we focused on the letters Bb and Yy. We talked about the sounds they make, brainstormed things that begin with each letter, and spent time practicing the proper formation of each letter. These letters will show up on next week’s homework for a handwriting review.

Reading/Writing: This week we focused on the difference between a letter and a word. The children had an opportunity to practice writing. The children were given a big sheet of paper and were allowed to draw a picture and try to write about it. Many of the children drew wonderful pictures and were able to at least write the first sound of the word they wanted to write to describe their picture.

Math: We continue to work on representing quantities with dots inside a ten frame. We learned how to properly form the numbers 4, 5, and 6. We reviewed our procedures for math workshop and our number talks.

We have also been learning about shapes. This week we focused on rectangles and triangles. Some new vocabulary we learned were the words, corner and sides. We counted the sides of each shape and found where the corners were on each shape. The children are loving our shape song video that we watch! Check it out on youtube, just search “Shape Song 2” by KidsTV123.

Social Studies: We continue to read books about being a good friend and following the rules. The children are really starting to get a handle on our routines and procedures.

We also talked about fire safety this week. Today was our first fire drill. All the children did a good job getting in line and out the door quickly.

Science: We talked about positional words this week and met with the other kindergarten classes to have a “Fun Friday” activity. We all got together and watched a video about positional words and played a game to reinforce the concept. Positional words are words that tell the location of something (on, off, above, below, in, out, between).

Housekeeping Items:

Please make sure to empty the green folders each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate homework or important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before.