September 20 Newsletter

  This Week in Kindergarten

Tuesday- Book Orders Due!!!! 

Wednesday- late start

Thursday- Picture Day! Please make sure to send in your child's form, even if you ordered online!  

Kindergarten News

We have had an excellent two weeks of Kindergarten!!! 

We have been so busy all day long learning new procedures and finding out more about our new friends. 

- ask your child if they can remember the name of someone who sits at their table

- we met our music teacher, art teacher, library teacher, and our gym teacher

-we were assigned special spots on the carpet

- we have had a chance to play with the classroom toys at choice time. Can your child tell you what they played with?

- we listened to some stories about starting school

-we found out about each of our classmates, Ms. Kuriata and Mrs. Bartz too. 

What do they remember about a friend or their teacher???

Please remember book orders are due on Tuesday! 

Also, please return any forms that you still have at home! 

Please continue to send a filled water bottle everyday! It would also be

great if your child can open and close it by themselves. The kind that don't

spill easily are also helpful as they do get knocked over!

We really need the cool water to keep us going on these long days now! 

Our Learning

We now are starting our second full week of learning.  This includes

Reading, Journal, math, Daily 5, Phonics, writing workshop,

Morning Meeting, Calendar, and Handwriting. We will start centers

this week and will also begin working on our computers. Centers

focus on playing cooperative games, practicing letters and sounds, and

doing art projects involving fine motor skills.

We will begin science and social studies more formally in a couple of weeks.

Reading lessons will include rhyming, Listening for sounds, letter name

recognition, listening for letter sounds, and learning how

to “Read to Self” and “Work on Writing” (Daily 5).  I have

already taught the lesson “How to Read a book”...your child is

learning to read a book 3 ways: 

Read the pictures, Read the words, Retell.

Journal writing started with writing a simple sentence and will

be done daily.

Stories-  We have read many stories these two weeks, including

Big Green Monster, Chrysanthemum and Big Orange Splot. 

Morning Meeting is when we will practice greeting each other by

making eye contact and being polite. We will all get to share about a

topic each morning.(ex. Favorite color).  Our goal is to be a good

listener to whomever is speaking.  We are going to be reading books

in morning meeting that help us understand our thoughts and feelings

and help us better get along with each other at school.

Writing Workshop will start with “I can tell a story”. 

Your child will learn to tell a story about themselves, telling what

happened first, next and last.  We will practice this for several

weeks before we write/draw our stories on paper.

Math will first focus on identifying numbers to 10, shapes,

counting to 20, patterns, and sharing and playing math

games with 1-3 friends.

Calendar time includes the date and other math concepts that

are repeated daily.

Bathroom Breaks/Lunch/Recess

Talk to your child about how bathroom breaks, lunch and recess

are going at school.  Let me know if there is anything

that I can help with. :)

Have a good week!