Highlights

It was an awesome first 5-day week! Your kids are troopers and did a wonderful job even through the heat earlier in the week and as they got a little more worn out by Friday afternoon. They are rock stars!

Important Dates

• September 20- No PM bus
• September 26- Field trip to DeGraaf Nature Center 9:30-11 (plus travel)
• September 27- No School (teacher pd)
• October 1- Picture Day for our class (I’ll send a form in the red folder when the date is closer)

Reminders

• DeGraaf Nature Center: On September 26 we are heading to the nature center to continue our studies of the 5 senses. I am looking for drivers please. If you are interested, please follow this link.
• Lunch Help Needed Please: On September 23 and October 21 I am looking for a parent to be in our classroom during the beginning of lunchtime. The commitment is about 11:40-12:10. Please let me know if you’re interested!
  

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Curriculum

Bible: We continue to talk about the Fruits of the Spirit. This week we talked about patience, (paciencia,) kindness, (benignidad,) and goodness, (bondad.) We also started learning about creation. We read the creation story outside! It was a unique experience to learn about God’s creation as we sat surrounded by it. Next week we’ll finish talking about the Fruits of the Spirit. We’ll continue talking about creation and each student will make a creation book.

Literacy: We continue to build stamina in Read to Self, (Leer Solito.) So far we’ve made it to 8 minutes! Our grammar focus this week was nouns. We learned that a noun is a person, place, or thing. We learned a song to remember the different kinds of nouns and practiced classifying nouns.

• Reading strategy: Determining importance of text
• Read aloud: No te comas a la maestra (Don’t Eat the Teacher! :))
• Vocabulary Words:
  • el bacalao (cod)
  • el torbellino (tornado)
  • el pincel (paintbrush)
  • avergonzado (embarrassed)
  • se zambulló (dove)
• Phrase of the week: Buenos días (good morning) Buenas tardes (good afternoon)
• Letter of the week: Aa

Book of Friends: Each kindergartener is working on a book of friends. When the project is complete they will have a page for each of the kindergarten friends in their book. Creating the pages helps us focus on our different names- how many letters? vowels or consonants? etc. It also gives us an opportunity to celebrate how God made each one of us unique as we draw a picture of the friend on that page. This week we did a page for Dawson and stared a page for Brendon!

Math: In our math centers we did a pattern activity, practiced counting out towers of linking cubes, looked at various ways to arrange objects of the same quantity, and completed a roll and color activity. Our math lessons for this week took place in a teacher-guided center.

Writing Workshop: Kindergarteners begin “writing” stories by telling them orally. We practiced thinking of and sharing true stories that have a beginning, middle, and end. It is so fun to see your children’s personalities through the stories they choose to share!

Exploring God’s World: Our first unit is on the 5

Up in Lights: We chatted as a class and agreed on a fair way to determine the order of our up in lights friends. This is our special student of the week. We decided that it would be fair if I pulled out popsicle sticks (without peeking!) to pick the order. I will send the schedule and the project pages home next week. If the date of your child’s turn won’t work for your family, please feel free to switch with another family in our class. Your whole family is invited to join us to share the project. It is fun to meet each other’s families!