THE KINDERGARTEN TIMES
This Week We:
Continued to learn the routines of our school day
Began writing in our fall journals
Explored environmental print
Learned about our first Celebrity-Danielle
Read the book, I Read Signs and made a town mural with signs
Decorated a paper plate to look like ourselves
Sequenced the nursery rhyme, Hickory, Dickory, Dock
Went on an EXIT hunt to read and find exits from our school
Were introduced to sorting and sorted buttons by various attributes
Explored numbers and made number books 1-4
Had our first library and art classes
Graphed the number of boys and girls in our class- ask me which one has more and less
Practiced getting in and out of Open Circle with chairs
Explored the concept of volume in the water and sand tables
Graphed the months of our birthdays and discussed the data with math words, more, less, the same
Sequenced the poem September and made a bus snack
We worked on our hand skills as we push pinned buses and covered our names with beans-both activities are good for our skill fingers
Painted at the easel
Books, Songs and Poems:
I Read Signs
Bean Bag Rock
Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come
Freeze Dance
Grandma’s Button Box
Months of the Year
Hickory, Dickory, Dock
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Parent Information:
The children continue to work on learning the rules and routines of our day. With practice and support, they are becoming more independent unpacking their backpacks, following morning settle-in routines, and packing up at the end of the day. Being able to follow such routines and rules is important work for kindergarten children! Thank you for your support in this area.
Next Wednesday is Curriculum Night. I look forward to sharing information about our kindergarten curriculum, as well as other information about our classroom. I will have volunteer sign-ups as well as December conference schedules.
I am looking for a parent or two to help collate our decodable take- home books. If you think you would be interested, please send me a note and I’ll contact you. This might be a good task for someone who would like to help, but can’t come into our classroom. Thank you in advance.
Enjoy your weekend,
Mrs. Buffy Casey and Mrs. Donna Dumaine
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