Important dates and reminders:

• Monday, September 9 Scholastic Book Orders Due online scholastic.com/bookclubs  Our class code is LJ4K7
• September 20 No PM bus
• Septebmer 27 No School, Staff professional development
• Tuesday, October 1 Picture Day for our class (forms will be sent out closer to date)
• Thursday, October 3 Field trip to DeGraaf Nature Center 9:30-11 (plus travel)
• Please send in any lingering paperwork or family photo. Thank you!
• Please send back your child’s red folder every day

This week we continued to build routines and practice, but it is beginning to feel a little more like Kindergarten 🙂 It is so fun to see your children develop friendships and become more independent.

We are trying recess buddies for the next week to help our class continue to build friendships and learn how to play different games on the playground. It was so fun to see them join with newer friends and brainstorm what to play at recess.

Bible: Mr. McAboy talked to all of the kindergarten classes about the Bible. He reminded us that it is God’s word, we learn about God by reading it and God speaks to us through it. It is kind of like seeing the world through Bible glasses. Kindergartners are each given a Bible to use at school and they are so excited to read them! We use the Beginner’s Bible and each child has one in his/her book box.

We are also learning the fruit of the spirit. This week we talked about love, joy, peace and patience.

My Book of Friends: we continue to add friends to our book and recognize how God made each of us uniquely. Our friends are so special!

Literacy Centers: We are reviewing each letter of the alphabet and in alphabetical order. During literacy centers we rainbow write the letter, highlight the letter in a book and decorate the letter with something that begins with the letter sound. This week we focused on a, b, c.

Math: We read Anno’s Counting book this week. It is a book with no words, but beautiful pictures that develop as the pages go from zero to 10. We see a country scene emerge with objects beginning with zero (nothing), then one house, one person, one tree, etc. Each page has increases in number and objects. We took the book outside to learn. We looked around our playground to see if anything outdoors comes in groupings. We saw 4 stools, 3 play sets, 4 soccer goals, 3 logs, etc. It was great to learn outside!

Our Math centers in the afternoon included patterning with shapes and people, reading number books in scoop chairs and representing numbers with colorful square. For example: we can show 6 by using 3 blue and 3 red squares or we can use 1 red and 5 blue squares. It is wonderful to see children grasp this concept.

We are enjoying our specials of music, art and Spanish. We are looking forward to PE and library on Monday.