A week in review: September 9-13

We did it! Your children made it through their first five day week of kindergarten and they are all still smiling! As well as myself;). We were so busy diving into our curriculum and still learning the ins and outs of kindergarten! I am so incredibly proud of each and everyone of them and the effort that they bring to school day in and day out! I am looking forward to the week ahead!

Important Dates

 September 20: No afternoon bussing

September 27: No school/teacher professional development day

October 1: School pictures

October 3: Field trip to DeGraaf nature center

Additional information

Thank you to all who signed up for our field trip! We have enough chaperones. If you did sign up could you please send me an email to let me know how many kids would be able to ride in your car.

Towels went home last week for washing. If you still haven’t sent them back please do ASAP! I will be sending them home every two weeks to be washed!

Library is Tuesday if your child wants to check out a new book please make sure they send it back by Tuesday!

Just a reminder, if you haven’t turned in your forms or a family photo yet, get that to me as soon as possible.

If you would like for your child to get hot lunch or milk you may bring money to the office and fill out an envelope or go to this website .

Curriculum

Bible: This week we finished up our study of the Fruits of the Spirit; learning about kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self control. Faithfulness was a difficult one to understand so we came to the conclusion that it means you can ALWAYS count on God and He will ALWAYS be there! We also are working on our verse Genesis 1:31a “God saw all that He had made, and it was very good.”

Math: This week we worked on shapes as well as one to one correspondence. We were able to do that in our whole group as well as in our math centers. We also finished Anno’s Counting Book and then went outside to draw pictures on white boards to match the number I gave them!

Book of Friends: We continued working on spelling and recognizing our friends’ names as well as learning more about them and finally drawing them. This week we drew our own pictures of Adalynn! After we complete all of our friends the students will bring them home to show you!

Literacy Centers (Alphabet boot camp): This week we continued our study of a letter a day doing the letters Dd-Hh. We worked on the sounds, recognizing the letter in text as well as rainbow writing the upper and lower case letter. I am amazed at how many words the class has been able to come up with that start with the letter we are learning! We will be continuing this next week and I will be adding a few different elements of excitement. If you would be willing to donate a bag of jelly beans for Tuesday or a bag of small marshmallows and a box of toothpicks for Friday please lmk! Thank you in advance!

Engaging God’s World: We learned about our five senses this week! We talked about how many times we use more than one of our senses and sometimes we even use all five at once! We then went to the teacher’s lounge to pop a bag of popcorn so that we could hear, and smell and eventually see, touch and taste a delicious treat! We also talked about how some people don’t have the use of all their senses, such as someone who is blind, and that there are ways they can be helped, such as guide dogs. We decided that we are very thankful for the use of our senses! 

Daily 5: This week I introduced the three ways to read a book 1. Read the pictures 2. Read the words 3. Retell the story. We also started to build our reading stamina. We made it to 4 minutes this week! This means we all had to read quietly, stay in one spot, read the whole time, get started right away and do not bother those around us! I was thrilled with 4 minutes! We are off to a great start!

Afternoons: Our afternoons continue to be busy and full of learning. We enjoyed quiet time, play time, snack, recess, music, art, math centers and kindergarten singing! Play time is such an important part of kindergarten as we are learning not only how to play together but also developing our imaginations!

 

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