It has been another great two weeks in Kindergarten. We completed our unit on Nursery Rhymes. Your Kindergarten Star brought home a Collection of Nursery Rhymes in a yellow book. A great place for this book would be your Reading Treasure Box. Your child can practice reading each Nursery Rhyme, hunt and find sight words, or practice letter recognition.
We took our first math assessment for Unit 1. I was very proud of each one. We will begin Unit 2 this week. Number writing will continue to be a focus, days of the week, months of the year, counting, and number partners.
"Make-It, Take-It" Night was a hit. It was a great way to create and gather materials to help your child become a successful reader. I sent packets home with each family that could not attend. Have fun making and playing fun word games.
It was an exciting week during our leveled math groups. The children rotated through many differentiated math activities such as completing tens frames, playing "No Ones" game, Race to the Top, Number Partners, Number Writing, working with Numbers and Tallies, and Numbers and Links. The children enjoyed the math activities with their partner.
During Daily Five, the children began exploring Word Work. Word Work activities included....Word Building, Keyboard Fun, Word Writing, Letter Stamping, Sight Word Spelling with tiles, Name Building, and Sight Word Bingo. Word Work will be an individual work choice during the Reading Group Block.
This week we will focus on Fall and Fire Safety.
I will be out of the building at a training on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Have a Great Week.
Leslie Ross
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Kindergarten Stars: September 16, 2012
We have had another wonderful two weeks of Kindergarten already. Do not be surprised with how fast time flies when you are having fun.
Thank you for sharing your parents or special adult friends for Grandparents Day. It was a huge success. The children love sharing their classroom, songs, and activites with their grandparents and special friends. I enjoyed it too. :-)
Our focus in Animated Alphabet have been the letters P=Polly Panda, U=Uncle Upton, O=Ollie Ostrich, and songs and poems to incorporate their sounds. *HAVE A 3-RING BINDER OR FOLDER AT HOME TO KEEP EACH ANIMATED ALPHABET PAGE THAT COMES HOME IN SO THAT YOUR CHILD MAY REVIEW AND PRACTICE THESE LETTERS AND SOUNDS AT HOME. It is a great way to study.
During Animated Alphabet, I have introduced 4 sight words....the, is, can, A. You can practice finding these in nursery rhymes or poems that come home as well as books you read with your child daily.
Our math focus has been grouping, comparing objects for likenesses and differnecs, graphing, making partners of numbers, positional words, 3-D and 2-D shapes, and number writing. Number writing can be a challenge. I am proud of their perserverance this week and at home with practicing their number writing.
* I want to thank everyone for their diligence in completing math homework and returning it to school daily in their purple folders.
We are continuing to work on Nursery Rhymes. The children are creating story boards and puppets to be used in their retelling and reading of the nursery rhymes in class. We are learning about and practicing rhyming words withing these nursery rhymes. Dr. Seuss book are fabulous to read together at home to practice rhyming words.
This week we will celebrate the Five Senses. I will be sending home a note explaining what sense we will be celebrating and on which day and what your Kindergarten Star will need to bring to school.
Monday, September 17 is Constitution Day. Have your child wear Red, White, and Blue in honor of our wonderful country.
Have a great week and thanks for being an awesome parent group.
Leslie Ross
Thank you for sharing your parents or special adult friends for Grandparents Day. It was a huge success. The children love sharing their classroom, songs, and activites with their grandparents and special friends. I enjoyed it too. :-)
Our focus in Animated Alphabet have been the letters P=Polly Panda, U=Uncle Upton, O=Ollie Ostrich, and songs and poems to incorporate their sounds. *HAVE A 3-RING BINDER OR FOLDER AT HOME TO KEEP EACH ANIMATED ALPHABET PAGE THAT COMES HOME IN SO THAT YOUR CHILD MAY REVIEW AND PRACTICE THESE LETTERS AND SOUNDS AT HOME. It is a great way to study.
During Animated Alphabet, I have introduced 4 sight words....the, is, can, A. You can practice finding these in nursery rhymes or poems that come home as well as books you read with your child daily.
Our math focus has been grouping, comparing objects for likenesses and differnecs, graphing, making partners of numbers, positional words, 3-D and 2-D shapes, and number writing. Number writing can be a challenge. I am proud of their perserverance this week and at home with practicing their number writing.
* I want to thank everyone for their diligence in completing math homework and returning it to school daily in their purple folders.
We are continuing to work on Nursery Rhymes. The children are creating story boards and puppets to be used in their retelling and reading of the nursery rhymes in class. We are learning about and practicing rhyming words withing these nursery rhymes. Dr. Seuss book are fabulous to read together at home to practice rhyming words.
This week we will celebrate the Five Senses. I will be sending home a note explaining what sense we will be celebrating and on which day and what your Kindergarten Star will need to bring to school.
Monday, September 17 is Constitution Day. Have your child wear Red, White, and Blue in honor of our wonderful country.
Have a great week and thanks for being an awesome parent group.
Leslie Ross
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