Week 2 of Kindergarten

Well I honestly can’t believe that we are starting the second week of school!

Last week we really did talk a LOT about routines and my friends are really doing a good job with them! 

We read a lot of books that had to do with starting school and especially kindergarten. I love Chester the Raccoon and we read quite a few of his books as well this past week – I am sure you heard all about it! I also hope you liked the Kissing Hand we made for you! We even got to take a quick tour of our school while looking for Chester and we found out where the office is, the lunch room, all of our specials (computer, pe, music,library and art) classrooms are, we also found the courtyards. I sure hope your kids told you all about it! I know they were all disappointed that we never found Chester - but he did leave us a bracelet to make!

In Math we will learn more about our Daily Math Routines which we will do everyday and I promise I will explain in detail at a later time. We also started to learn about how numbers are all around us and we LOVE math already! We read Anno’s Counting Book (which actually has no words just scenes so we will get to make up the words) and will be looking at this book again and will actually get to make our own counting books were we will get to draw scenes of numbers and discuss them with our new friends! Last week we were introduced to our math mats. These are mats that we use to show a number and display objects of that many number. We will use counting mats many times throughout the year and will learn to talk about our display with our class and listen to our friends as they share WONDERFUL ideas!!

In Literacy last week we learned our ABC chant (which my friends LOVE) and also focused on the letters A-H and this week we will keep on going with as many letters as we can get through! We always practice finger writing the letter and saying the sound it makes! We also read a poem everyday out of our "Big Book of Rhymes" and will continue to do this as well. We even read "Animals in the Park" and will be rereading that as well! We will be talking a lot about books and authors and illustrators and what it takes to be a good reader and writer! We will start to look for capital and lowercase letters and also punctuation marks! Hopefully your child told you we learned a new word "I" and we even read sentences with it!  We can point to the words and read the sentence to our friends! We are SOO SMART! And this next week we will learn another new word "can" and I can't wait to see the sentences we read.

 During writing we read “Library Mouse” and discussed storytelling and about writing about what you know. Thank you for sending in a picture of your kindergartener - it was soo fun to hear them talk about it - we still have a few more to share. But please know I love hearing details of all the amazing things my friends have done! We will also be discussing the rules and procedures of writer’s workshop. We will practice how to sit, how to write, and how to put our things away. 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! 

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!!

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

Mon.: day 1 - Art 

Tues.: day 2 -Computer

Wed.: day 3 -Music

Thurs.: day 4-PE .(please send your child to school wearing their tennis shoes)

Fri.: day 5 -library (please make sure to return your books)

It's gonna be another great week!:) Mrs. Woita