Upcoming Events

10/20 Scholastic Reading Club orders due (These are online only)

10/21 Halloween Harvest Magic Show Assembly

10/17-10/28 Savory Foods Sale

10/26 Kindergarten Parent Meeting at 8:00am (more details coming home soon)

10/27 Toss or Turn? Assembly

10/28 Costume Parade/Class Party (more details to come)

10/31 PBIS Party  – Fall Fest

Agenda for the Week

Letters: This week we focused on the letters Ee and Vv. 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 continued practicing components of our Daily 5 curriculum. The children are building stamina during our rotation for “Read to Self” and “word work.”   Wednesday the children did EXCELLENT during our Daily 5 rotation. I am so proud of the growth they are making! We focused on reading comprehension this week and how to retell the story. The children worked on retelling stories using the beginning, middle, and end of the story. We also discussed the problem and solutions in the stories we read and made our own predictions about how we thought the main characters were going to try to fix the problem in the story.

Math: We continue to work with numbers 0 – 20 using different manipulatives during Math Workshop/Center time. The children are having fun putting the numbers in order, comparing numbers (larger/smaller), and counting out correct quantities.

Social Studies: We continue to read books about being a good friend and following the rules.  We review our classroom rules daily and I always remind the children of what my expectations are for every activity throughout the day. Some of the children are quite strict about the rules and are trying to take over my job as teacher! I try to remind the children to worry about themselves, and I will look after everyone else!

Science: We learned more about our five senses. This week we learned about our sense of touch and taste.  We made a Mr. Potato Head and labeled the parts to show the five senses. The kids loved this activity.

We had “Fun Friday” today with all of the kindergarten classes and focused on the five senses. We had a “feely box,” where children had to blindly reach inside and feel items, then guess what each item was. We had a few different scents for the children to smell and try to guess what scent they smelled. We had different sounds we played for the children to listen to and try to identify. We went on a nature walk to see what we could observe with our sense of sight, and we also had salty, sweet, and sour food for the children to taste!

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.