We can safely say that we had a wonderful second week in Kindergarten! The children are learning to listen to and follow directions. They are learning to use materials and put them away. The children walk in a safe and caring line and are learning one another’s names as we greet one another at meeting time.
It was nice to see so many of you at our Back to School Night last night. Thank you for participating in the drawing activity and listening to such a long presentation! If you weren’t able to come to the presentation, we sent home the drawing activity in your child’s folder. Please draw your face in the circle and return it to school.
I shared information about how to connect to your child’s Seesaw account in the packet from the Back to School Night. Please look that over this weekend and try to connect. There is already a post waiting for you to see!
The students have begun their first of many innovations. This one is following the predictable words of Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin, Jr. They have also learned poems, participated in shared reading, and have listened to many stories. They are doing a great job rotating around to their daily work centers and have been enjoying all the painting, gluing, and coloring!
We have started making letter/alphabet books. We are going in the order that the letters are presented in Fundations. The students have completed the T, B, and F books and will start their N books next week. I would encourage you to put these books and other books that your child makes in a shoebox or on a special shelf so that they can find them and read them often.
In math, the children are practicing counting, representing, and writing numbers 1-5. I hope the math papers that are coming home are helpful for you to see what they are doing in math. The homework sheet is optional but would be a great tool for you to use with your child for further practice. I would encourage you to practice writing the numbers 1-5 with your child during the next couple of weeks to make sure your child is getting lots of practice with them. Feel free to get creative with it...they can write the numbers in sand, salt, or even shaving cream! During calendar time, the students follow patterns and practice counting and have been working on learning the days of the week.
Our first field trip will be Thursday, October 11th. We are going to the Franklin Park Zoo! The cost of the trip is $4. Checks need to be made payable to Burlington Public Schools and should be in by Thursday, October 4th. If you are interested in chaperoning, please let me know sometime next week. I will try selecting chaperones by the end of the week. Also, please let me know if you are interested in volunteering in the classroom during the month of October. I will be sending the volunteer schedule out next week.
The students completed their first class book. Similar to the face project many of you completed at the Open House, the children drew and colored their faces for their friends to guess who they were. All the pages got put into a class book that will start circulating to student homes next week. Please read and enjoy the book with your child when it is his/her turn and send it back into school on the next school day so another student may borrow it. You will know it is a class book because it has our class list on the back and is full of work completed by all of the students.
I’ve included pictures of all the artwork we have done so far. The students are hard workers and are off to a great start!
Have a great weekend!
Melanie Duncan
PS… School Photos will be this Wednesday, September 26th. The order forms were sent home earlier this week. Please be sure to return them with the payment by Wednesday if you would like to order pictures.
Also… We will be going to the library on Wednesday. Students should return their books from our last visit so they can borrow another one.
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