Color words

We learn so much in kindergarten!  And as I mentioned before, we have learned how to read and identify the color words including:
red
blue
yellow
green
orange
purple
brown
pink
black
white

To help us learn these color words we used many strategies including music.  Here is a fun song we sing to help us remember these words.  If your children are still having trouble reading these words, this would be  great way to give them some extra practice in reading and spelling them.

What's happening this week?

As always, it's another busy week in kindergarten.  We are adjusting well to being at school all day and doing a nice job of learning the routines and procedures of the day. 

 This week in Language Arts we will be reviewing sight words I and can and the color words red, blue, yellow, green, orange, pink, purple, brown, black, and white.  We will discuss information text and fiction.  In Writer's workshop we will start using our Writing Journals for writing-very exciting!  In Math we will take our first chapter test on number 0-5 and start chapter 2 comparing sets.  Our Thematic Unit we be:  All About Me.  In Religion, we will be discussing that God made us all and made each one of us special. 

Coming home today is a permission slip form for Applefest at Sharon Woods.  Please return that with money to me by Friday. Thanks so much and have a great week!

Read to Self

We have been learning over the last 2 weeks the three ways to read a book and learning the routines for our special time of the day, Read to Self  and they are:
1. Read to pictures
2. Read the words
3. Retell the story
During read to self we will be putting to practice all the skills we will learn throughout the year to become better readers.  We usually do this right after lunch.  I have been telling the kids that in order to get better at anything we need to practice and this is our practice time. Here are some photos of the students reading their picture books

What's Happening this Week?

I hope you all had a nice three day weekend.  This week will be another busy week!  Luckily it won't be quite as hot, but we will still be adjusting to being here all day. 

We will continue learning the routines and expectations for all of our learning activities.  In Reading and Language Arts we will be learning to read all the color words: red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, pink, white, gray, brown and black.  Our sight word for the week is the word can.  We will also continue with identifying uppercase and lowercase letters. In math, we will be focusing on numbers 1 through 5.   In Social Studies, we will finish our School Life unit,  learning about our school.  In Religion, we will be discussing this coming Sundays's Gospel. 

If anyone has the time, and would like to come into the classroom and volunteer, please let me know!  You are always welcome.  Also, if you are able to send the extra supplies, it would be much appreciated!

Writing our names

We had a very busy week and have learned so much already. As I said earlier, I am sure the children are extremely tired.  We will get used to being at school all day soon, it is a big adjustment.
 
We are learning the routines for our many learning opportunities. We have learned the color words red, blue, yellow, green and orange.  We also learned the popcorn word I. 

We have also worked very hard on writing our names the "kindergarten" way.  Using only an uppercase letter for the first letter in our names and all the rest are lowercase.  We all still need more help and practice with this! I found this great website where you can type in your child's name and a great practice page is generated.  Handwriting is very important! 


http://genkienglish.net/teaching/instant-name-worksheet-maker/

Have a wonderful three day weekend.

What's Happening This Week?

We are getting right down to business this week learning and getting used to our routines. 

In Language Arts we are starting Read to Self and  Writer's Workshop.  We will be identify the letters of the alphabet at a very fast pace this year.  This week we will be learning letter Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg and Hh.  We will be learning the high frequency word I also. We will be working very hard on reading the color words red, blue, yellow, green and orange. In Math, we will be discoverying numbers 1-4.  In Religion, we will be discussing that God created the world in everything in it.  Our thematic unit will be on names and how to write them the kindergarten way and how to read each others names. 

As you can see we are very busy in kindergarten.  Here are some photos of the class today.

Day 1 and 2

It's been a great couple of days.   We toured the school, talked about our hopes for the year, talked about what makes and good teacher and student and so much more.  We sang some songs and read many great books. 

While touring the school we were looking for Pete the Cat, but never quite found him.  Maybe next year, or even on Monday we will find him.  Here is a fun short video that goes with the story Pete the Cat, Walking in my School Shoes.

 

 

Don't forgot to get lots of rest this weekend!  Picture day is Tuesday and we are of uniform for picture day. Have a wonderful weekend.

 

 

We will start out Monday getting busy learning.