We had another great week! It was very busy with our Fall Field Trip, which thankfully we had good weather for, and Apple Centers. We had a lot of fun with both!
Hope you are enjoying Columbus Day with your child! I am looking forward to another great week full of learning. We will be talking a little more about autumn and then we will start into our unit on transportation. We will focus on the science of movement, shapes, and some important vocabulary words: transportation, vehicles, motion, friction, gravity.
We are working on composing and decomposing numbers in math and will be working on shape recognition, both 2D and 3D. A great little game we are playing in class that you can play with your child is a game we call Bunny Ears. They hold their hands above their heads with zero fingers up. You name a number and they are to hold up that many fingers, hopefully without having to look. It is kind of cute to watch them try so hard to not look! :) It is okay if they do! They are practicing a great skill and will eventually become so proficient at it that they will hardly have to think about it. We discuss that their are different ways to make a number. For example: if the number is 5, they can hold up 0 and 5 or 1 and 4 or 2 and 3. Any help with this skill at home will build their confidence. Remember to always make it fun and praise their accomplishments! :)
I have started testing for their first kindergarten report card. The quarter ends on October 25th. The most important items we are testing this quarter are letter and numeral recognition and the sounds of each letter. You will be receiving a note soon with a time for conferences. Please let me know as soon as possible if the time works for you. Also, let me know if you plan to be out of town the 6th through the 8th. I will be happy to do a before or after conference with you.
Have a great week!
Ms. Strong
Monday, October 14, 2013
Monday, October 7, 2013
October 7th
So, a few of you have told me that you are enjoying the posts. I am going to try to get in the habit of publishing a new post each week, probably over the weekend.
Hope you all are enjoying the snow! I always say, make the best of every situation! :) Just a reminder to see that your child is dressed properly. Snow pants are not necessary since they only have 15 minutes to be outside. It ends up taking them almost that long to get them on and they end up with no time to play. Boots are important since their feet tend to get cold and wet very easily. Just make sure that on PE days they have shoes in their bags. It is good to label everything you possibly can with their name. Items get lost very easily in the mudroom or on the playground. If you do not have wraps for your kids, let me know. We have ways to help in that area.
Remember, our Fall Field Trip to McMannamen Park is this Thursday. It is suppose to be a nice fall day, but we may encounter snow cover in a few spots and probably mud, so make sure your child has on shoes that are okay to get muddy. Even if it is nice, they still will need a coat. The breeze coming off the lake can be cold. You are welcome to join us if you like! We will arrive about 1:30 and leave about 2:30.
Just a reminder that I have to be out of the classroom tomorrow, Tuesday, for a meeting. I am praying everything runs smoothly! :) I will also be out next Tuesday morning for a Math training. Also, a reminder that there is no school next Monday for students. It is a professional day for us. :)
If you noticed the papers coming home in the past week, we have started working on more writing. The kids have impressed me so far! I am very proud of how hard they are working. You can encourage writing at home, as well. The more they do, the more confident they will become. Right now, we are doing a lot of sentence building and then they copy it onto their paper, but we work on sounding words out and writing down the sounds we hear as well. It might be fun for them to have a little tablet for them to write what they would like or copy words from something around the house. They can write sight words or make sentences with some of their sight words. Just be careful not to push them too hard at this point. I like to make it fun and exciting so that they do not get discouraged. :)
They are all doing great in the area of reading. Keep practicing sight words and reading the books they bring home. We have been working on phoneme blending. A fun game you can play (works great while driving too!), you say c-a-n and they have to say can. Some catch on quickly to putting the sounds together into words and, for others, it is a skill that takes a lot of practice until their ears and mind can work together to form the word.
I love this class! They are so full of energy and I enjoy finding ways to channel that energy into learning! :)
Enjoy your week!
Ms. Strong
Hope you all are enjoying the snow! I always say, make the best of every situation! :) Just a reminder to see that your child is dressed properly. Snow pants are not necessary since they only have 15 minutes to be outside. It ends up taking them almost that long to get them on and they end up with no time to play. Boots are important since their feet tend to get cold and wet very easily. Just make sure that on PE days they have shoes in their bags. It is good to label everything you possibly can with their name. Items get lost very easily in the mudroom or on the playground. If you do not have wraps for your kids, let me know. We have ways to help in that area.
Remember, our Fall Field Trip to McMannamen Park is this Thursday. It is suppose to be a nice fall day, but we may encounter snow cover in a few spots and probably mud, so make sure your child has on shoes that are okay to get muddy. Even if it is nice, they still will need a coat. The breeze coming off the lake can be cold. You are welcome to join us if you like! We will arrive about 1:30 and leave about 2:30.
Just a reminder that I have to be out of the classroom tomorrow, Tuesday, for a meeting. I am praying everything runs smoothly! :) I will also be out next Tuesday morning for a Math training. Also, a reminder that there is no school next Monday for students. It is a professional day for us. :)
If you noticed the papers coming home in the past week, we have started working on more writing. The kids have impressed me so far! I am very proud of how hard they are working. You can encourage writing at home, as well. The more they do, the more confident they will become. Right now, we are doing a lot of sentence building and then they copy it onto their paper, but we work on sounding words out and writing down the sounds we hear as well. It might be fun for them to have a little tablet for them to write what they would like or copy words from something around the house. They can write sight words or make sentences with some of their sight words. Just be careful not to push them too hard at this point. I like to make it fun and exciting so that they do not get discouraged. :)
They are all doing great in the area of reading. Keep practicing sight words and reading the books they bring home. We have been working on phoneme blending. A fun game you can play (works great while driving too!), you say c-a-n and they have to say can. Some catch on quickly to putting the sounds together into words and, for others, it is a skill that takes a lot of practice until their ears and mind can work together to form the word.
I love this class! They are so full of energy and I enjoy finding ways to channel that energy into learning! :)
Enjoy your week!
Ms. Strong
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