Week 1 Wrap-Up!

Kindergarten is well underway! We’ve had a busy, fun-filled week!


During the past week, we’ve been learning our friends’ names, as well as rules/routines of the classroom and school. We have been identifying and matching upper and lower case letters. We’ve sequenced stories and made personal connections to stories. In writing, we’ve been working on stretching out words and writing down the sounds we hear. In math, we’ve collected data about ourselves and created pictographs based on that data. We’re using words such as: “more than,” “less than,” and “equal to.”
Next Week:

In reading and writing, we will:


• Identify the word wall words, “I” and “am” by using the poem, "I Am Special"
• Begin to learn about different literacy centers in our classroom
• Continue to stretch out words and write down the sounds we hear


In math, we will

• Begin sorting ourselves and different collections of objects into groups (by color, by size, by shape, etc.) using words like: tall, short, thin, thick, bumpy, smooth


In science, we will


• Describe the weather using different weather vocabulary
• Identify appropriate clothing to wear for each type of weather
Looking Ahead


• No School on Monday, September 6th or Thursday, September 9th!
• Cultural Arts assembly on Wednesday

Classroom Announcements


• Birthdays: Happy Birthday to Gaby and Eamon on Sept. 10th! Happy Birthday this past week to Nia and Darius on August 31st and Rhyce on August 29th.

• Please return your child’s take home folder to school every day. This is an important communication tool between school and home. Be sure to send your child’s “Stop and Think calendar” back each day, as well.
How You Can Help Your Child


• Please help your child practice writing his/her name using upper and lowercase letters. Some fun ideas for this would be to paint the letters, use play-dough to form the letters, write the letters using sidewalk chalk, spread shaving cream on a table and have your child use their fingers to write through the shaving cream, etc.


A Special Thank You


• Thank you to Marianne (Gaby's mom) for volunteering to be our room parent. If you would like to help her, by being a co-room parent, please let me know!


If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Have a fantastic Labor Day weekend!