This Week in
KINDERGARTEN
September 10th, 2012
Dear
Kindergarten Families,
As
we head into our first full week of school we continue to develop our classroom
routines, class rules, jobs, and building our classroom of new friends into a
community.
During our math center this week we
will begin to discuss and practice number formation by learning a poem that
teaches us the correct formation of the numbers 1 – 10. We will also work on sorting and
exploring our math manipulatives that we will be using over the course of this
year.
Over the course of
this week we will be brainstorming classroom rules so that we all feel safe in
kindergarten and have a fun, successful learning environment. The students will list many rules and
then decide what rules they think are important to have, narrowing it down to
about five core rules. We will end
our week by signing a classroom constitution that lists these agreed upon
rules. It will be display at the
front of our classroom. It is a
critical part of our Responsive Classroom curriculum that the students
choose their own rules, as it leads to a deeper level of understanding and
ownership.
We will read Wemberly Worried,
a book about a mouse starting school.
We will be talking about our hopes and dreams for kindergarten. Students then will make a small paper
quilt square illustrating one of their hopes or dreams for kindergarten. These will be displayed in the
classroom as a class quilt.
Part of our day in
kindergarten is set up in reading literacy centers that your children rotate
through. We began to explore how
this works last week. Our class
literacy centers focus on Art, ABC’s, Vocabulary, Writing. Moving through work centers is
challenging at first, but builds great independence and a child’s ability to
work on task.
For writing we will
be working with our names a great deal. At the first ABC work center we will
practice printing all upper and lowercase letters to see what we know. We will end our ABC centers by
exploring some of the tools that we will be using with our handwriting program,
such as small chalkboards to write our letters on.
Other activities this
week… Within writer’s workshop we are going to be using flip books that will
teach us how to draw everyday objects like houses, cars, people, trees. We will be doing this work within our
very own sketchbooks. We will make
name puzzles; I encourage you to have your child build this with you when they
bring them home. We will also
begin our phonics program: Lively Letters. This is an amazing program that gets the kids singing,
moving, and learning mnemonic devices to connect the letter shape and sound to
a story. I love it and the kids
will too.
*Curriculum night for
parents is Tuesday the 11th at 6:15. I am excited to see you all
there.
*Please send in water
bottles labeled, to keep in the classroom for the children to drink from.
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to receive school or district news via email please send in a note so I can
make sure you receive a paper copy.
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- Mrs.Taylor
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