Hello!
It was great to see so many of you at our Parent Orientation. I realize there was a lot of information so please do reach out anytime if a question pops into your head!
We are about to begin our first "full" week of school...I definitely saw some tired children on Friday of this last week so I can imagine next Friday will be even more so (...and a tired teacher, too😆)!
We had a great week learning about the letters t, b, f and their sounds. We are continuing to practice those school routines and expectations for how to learn and listen in a classroom. The children are beginning to remember each others' names better! We have discussed using our number one rule in room 103 "Be KINDergarteners" and showing HEART with each other. The children also learned about appropriate voice levels and about personal space. Here is the book about personal space that you can listen to with your child!
I am encouraging a second snack time in the afternoon during our choice time. I am hoping that this will give the students who are not eating much lunch the opportunity to put something in their bellies! If you'd like, send in an extra snack in your child's snack bag for the afternoon. It might be worth a conversation with your child about which food is for which snack so they do not eat it all in the am- up to you!
The first Scholastic Book Club orders are due on 9/14. I will put the order in late Sunday night to give you all a chance to order (if you want to).
This Week:
The children will...
LANGUAGE ARTS:
- practice the trick word: like
- learn letters m, n and their sounds
- practice writing and drawing routines
- retell a circle story using props
- learn how to use Lexia on the iPad
- match upper/lowercase letters
- practice writing our names (with more lower case letters)
- differentiate between the sounds we have learned so far
In Wit and Wisdom-
We will be completing module 0 (Wild About Books) this week. We will have a "Wild About Books Jungle Jam" on Friday afternoon to celebrate! I will be sure to take pictures💕. I will be sending home all the journal pages from this module as well.
MATH:
- learn and practice counting and writing numbers 0-5
- complete the Into Math "growth measure" assessment
- match quantities to numbers 0-10
- count backwards from 5 (5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed activities!)
- navigate Waggle (Into Math app) independently
SCIENCE:
- explore magnets to celebrate the letter Mm!
SOCIAL STUDIES:
- we will discuss the word neighborhood (letter n:)
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL: the children will complete the following lessons...
- Second Step lesson #3- following directions
- Social Thinking lesson #4-being part of a group
OUR WEEK:
- Sunday- Scholastic Book Orders are due
- Wednesday- ALICE drill (We handle these drills in a very age appropriate way and, honestly, I do not get into the big "why" we do them. I just address it as a safety drill like a fire drill except without the alarm.)
- Thursday- is our Shaker Lane picture day! Our scheduled time is 9:00 (love that it is before recess:).
- Friday- Wild About Books Jungle Jam (students will decorate a wild animal mask and we will have a dance party! They are invited to wear anything that has a wild animal on it, etc....NOT a have to!:)
Here are some pictures from last week!
coloring a picture that represents the letters we are learning
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Cosmic Kids Yoga to end our week
choice time fun!
cooking in the kitchen
and taking care of the babies
making frog puppets and practicing fine motor skills
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| acting out feelings with puppets in the "Take A Break" space |
MATH! We used play dough and squishy frogs to represent numbers, went fishing for numbers then put them in order and did "number rubbing".
Language Arts: We fed Freddy (the frog) flies that only have pictures of things that start with the letter f, put buttons with pictures of things that start with the letter b into a backpack, put magnet letters in order, sharing books and writing a response to a question from our Wit and Wisdom lesson.
drawing our self portrait
RECESS FUN!
