Week two of kindergarten FUN!!!

Well……we really DID survive the first week of school. The week was spent learning a lot of Meadow Lanes routines and procedures. We had so much fun and already started learning how to become better readers, writers, and mathematicians!!! We have a busy week coming up and we EVEN get to stay in school an hour longer so we can get so smart!!

In literacy we are going to continue learning about letters in the alphabet! We will learn about the letters E, F, G, H, & I!!! We always practice finger writing the letters and then listen to a fun song about each letter. They really are silly songs, but I have learned that we LOVE to sing AND dance!!!

We will also continue to learn about the sight word “I” and will even learn ANOTHER new word, “can”. We have been practicing using the words in sentences. We then can point and read the sentence to our friends! We really are so smart!! An example sentence would be “I can jump.”

Of course, we are always reading stories and making connections in the stories. This week will be rereading “Animals in the Park” and we will also read “ The Three Sisters.” As we read we love to look for letters of the alphabet and look for capital letters and punctuation marks!!

We are really going to start becoming authors this week!! We will continue to tell stories orally. Each kid gets to sit in the rocking chair and then share a story from his or her life. We practice using a lot of detail and I LOVE hearing all of the wonderful stories!! We will also be discussing the rules and procedures of writer’s workshop. We practice how to sit, how to write, and how to put our things away. We even get to make a fun chart using our pictures to show the writing expectations!! We might even get our writer’s workshop folders! We will store our writing in them AND be able to use some of the charts to help us spell better! I have learned that we LOVE to talk in our classroom so I know they will love getting introduced to talking buddies. They will have a buddy that they are paired up with. This is the friend they will practice orally telling their stories to before they write. I just know they are going to LOVE this! On Friday each child will get to show me how good of writer’s they already are during our pretest! Please be assured this usually consists of a beautiful picture, but very few words or letters.

Who doesn’t love math?? I know I do and I LOVE to watch kids explore numbers!! This week they will be introduced to our math mats. These are mats that we use to show a number and display objects of that many number. We learn to talk about our display with our class and listen to our friends as they share WONDERFUL ideas!! This is really a work in progress so we will spend a lot of time watching Mrs. Woita and doing it along with her! Last week we read Anno’s Counting Book. This week each child gets their own counting book! We will be drawing scenes of numbers in our books and discussing them with our class! I can’t wait to see all of the colorful drawings, it will take us a few days to finish!!

We will continue to go to specials and we all love that. Here is the schedule for this week:

Mon.: A -Computer

Tues.: B -Music

Wed.: C -P.E.(please send your child to school wearing their tennis shoes)

Thurs.: D -Art 

Fri.: A -Computer & we will go to the library for the very first time!!!

In unit studies we will be learning about safety! This week we will talk about stranger safety, fire safety, and our important emergency information. I will be sending a note home in Wednesday folders about this. On this note I want you to write the primary address and phone number you want your kindergarten child to learn in case of an emergency.The kids are going to be making their very own safety book so they can stay SUPER safe!!

WOW, that is a lot of information!!!! I hope you all had an enjoyable weekend and your kindergarten kid is ready to start their first FULL week of school. As always, if you have any questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to call or e-mail me!! Thanks for all you do! :) Mrs. Woita

Here is short video of some of the fun things we did this past week. I won't be able to make a video every week but I just thought you might want to see your kindergarteners hard at work (I know that I want to know what Henry is doing but the only thing I have got out of him this week was playing at recess and there were a lot of kids and they read a monster book, but he said he loves school so that makes his kindergarten teacher mommy very happy!). I hope you enjoy it! We had tons of fun!