We are moving right along in the literacy department! We are
starting week 2 of Unit 1 and our essential question is “How do baby animals
move?” We will be reading and listening to some great stories called “Pouch”,
“Baby Animals on the Move” and we will also read a version of “The Tortoise and
the Hare”. For shared reading (in the crabby book) we will read “We Can” and “I
Can, We Can” and then during guided reading when your child comes over to me at
the rainbow table they will be either reading “Hop!” or “We Hop!” Remember you
can go online to the wonders website at anytime and check out the books we are
reading - I bet your kindergartener would love to read you a story!
We are also going to be learning the word “we” this week and
focusing on the letter “a” and the sound it makes and where we hear the “a”
sound in words! We will continue to work on blending sounds together to make
words! Our new vocabulary words that we will be learning are: adventure, movement, arrived, exciting, and exhausted.
During writing we will continue to talk more about nouns and
will keep finding nouns in sentences. I know it is crazy - nouns!! Your kindergarten will soon be able to
tell you that a noun is a person, place, or thing or even an animal if they
can’t already! This week is actually a very big week in writing because up
until now your child has been telling stories orally and drawing pictures to go
with their story – but this week we are going to learn how to label our
pictures and use turtle talk to sound out the words we want to write and also
how to use our alphabet chart to help us during writing time! I am very excited
to see what writing has in store for our classroom this week!
In Math this week we will continue to explore numbers 1-10
with our counting mats and daily math routines. We will also learn how to
dot-to-dots with straight lines to make an object (the tricky part about this
is starting at the number 1 and going in counting order). We will also be practicing drawing groups of
numbers and learning more about shapes and how to make them! We are really
enjoying learning about 2 and 3 dimensional shapes! I am also so happy to see
all of the homework coming back to school – the kids get super excited every
time I hand homework out so I am sure hoping the enthusiasm to do homework is
still there when your child gets home! A homework routine is a great thing to
start in kindergarten when they enjoy it! Even on days when there is not an actual
paper homework please utilize the resources you have at home to keep practicing
the skills we are working on!
We are continuing to learn more about our American Symbols –
we still have the White House and Bald Eagle to read about. But this Wednesday,
Sept. 17th is a super fun day for our country – it is Constitution
Day! We will be learning about what the constitution is and why we have it and
we will also be making our very own Kindergarten Constitution and I am hoping
all of my friends will agree to it and sign it so we can have a successful
school year. On this day we will be doing lots of fun crafts and you will be
getting home our first family project where you will have the opportunity to
create your own Family Constitution – so please look for this on Wednesday! We
are really enjoying learning about our country and we are very proud to live
here!
I can really tell that my friends have been practicing their
address and phone number at home – please continue to work on this! Remember your child will get a special treat
when they can tell me their important information that will help them stay safe
and can use in case of an emergency. We will also be adding to our list of
things to earn this week. I have some patriotic pencils and once your child can
recite the Pledge of Allegiance they will earn their American Flag pencil!
Picture Day is
Wednesday, Sept. 17th – please turn in your papers if you would like
to order pictures!
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns! It
is going to be another fun week in kindergarten! :)Mrs. Woita
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