Kindergarten News

We made it 4 full days of school.  We are off to a great start in Kindergarten.

We are getting to know each other and our daily routine. Learning the routine will take some time.

We came up with 3 classroom rules, they are:

]Listen

Kindness

Making Good Choices

We talked about each of these rules and what they mean.  We have a chart in our classroom that everyone starts at green everyday and can move up the chart for following the rules or down if a poor choice is continuing to be made after they have a warning.

We are leaning about Growth Mindset in which we learn to train our brain in the following areas:

I do my best!

I don’t give up!

I like a challenge!

I stay positive!

I learn from my mistakes!

I solve problems!

I work hard!

I train my brain!

We read The Dot in which we saw how a mistake on a piece of paper can turn into something wonderful.  We can’t give up and we need to keep trying. We also read Be Brave Little Penguin in which we saw the penguin try new things by thinking I Can! The students made a book to help them remember this.

Math: We explored with a few of our math tubs to see what we could do with them.  Some of the students sorted by color, others made patterns or made a design.  We have been learning about patterns of AB and ABC.  We would clap, pat, or clap, touch our nose, pat.  Try some patterns at home.

Reading:  We read several stories about school like Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes, We Don’t Eat Our Classmates, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books.  We sequenced the Old Lady story using pictures and made a book to take home. Enjoy reading the book at your house.  A special story we read was The Kissing Hand in which Chester’s mother gave him a kissing hand so he wouldn’t miss her when he was at school.

Our Names:  We learned about the letters in our first name and practiced writing them with rainbow writing.

Next week we will learn about ourselves and begin to learn about numbers.

On Tuesday, have your child wear his/her gym shoes to school as we have gym every Tuesday.

Have a great weekend. Remember there is no school on Friday, August 30 and Monday, September  2.