Reminders:

Friday, September 3-Monday, September 6: No School-Labor Day Weekend

Wednesday: Library books due! Please bring to school and I will collect them in the classroom.

Please send in a family photo for our wall. The kids love to show off their families. Thank you!

What We Are Learning:

We continue to work on social skills in Kindergarten. This includes listening, controlling our bodies and talking to teachers and friends. This week we also worked hard on lining up without worrying about being first or last. We also have been straightening our lines so we can stay on one side of the hallway and let others pass by.

We started classroom jobs this week! Each child will take a turn with various jobs throughout the year. It is wonderful to see the class take ownership of the classroom and help it run smoothly.

We had our first trip to the library! Each child was able to check out a book. You may keep it for a week, but please turn it in to me next week Wednesday. Your child needs to bring the book back in order to check out a new one. It was so exciting to look at all the books Mrs. Joustra had ready for us.

As we continue to review the letters and sounds of the alphabet, we are also starting handwriting. We begin with writing upper case letters on chalkboards. We use the letter formation by the Handwriting Without Tears program.

In Bible we are learning about the fruit of the spirit. Here is the description we use:

The Bible talks about fruit but its a different kind of fruit, it’s called the fruit of the Spirit.  The fruit of the Spirit is a little like real fruit because they are each special and different too.

It’s really neat because when we ask Jesus to live in us his Spirit stays with us and He will give us some of this special fruit.  As we grow and learn more about Jesus, the Spirit will give us more and more fruit and become more Christ-like.

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.  All of these fruits are good to have and the Spirit wants to give them to us.

This week we focused on love, joy peace and patience. We are learning this song with motions and this silly song. 

We have taken our devotions outside this week. It has been beautiful in the morning and such a nice place to read God’s word.
In Math we are reading the book Anno’s Counting Book. Beginning with 0 and no pictures the book continues to show one landscape on each page and slowly add pictures. Page 1 is a winter scene and one house appears and one tree. Page 2 shows two building and now two trees. As numbers increase the seasons change. This book helps us see objects in landscapes in groups of numbers. Trying looking around your home for groups of items (houses, pillows, back yard trees, etc.).

In Phonics we continue to focus on letters (formation and sound). We reviews D, E, F and G this week.