Thursday, September 30, 2010

Week of September 27th-October 1st

This week in the kindergarten classroom, kids learned about Johnny Appleseed and created many projects devoted to the apple! Kids loved listening to the story of Johnny Appleseed, and we discussed what a Tall Tale means (making a little story big with a lot of make believe details). We also read (and thoroughly enjoyed) Ten Apples Up on Top then made pictures with ten apples stacked on our heads like the characters in the story. All of the pictures came out so good that I will put them on display outside our classroom next week.

Earlier in the week, I finished DIBELS with the class. Kids were assessed on letter names and the results will be discussed during Fall conferences. Reminders for the conference date and time you signed up for are in the Friday Folders this week. There are some who haven't signed up, but there are still time slots available. Either stop by to sign up outside my door, or drop me an email so I can discuss available times with you!

In Fundations, our letter of the week is "m" and we wrote about many topics that begin with this letter, such as, "monkey," "mouse," and "marble." Have kids be on the look out for words that start with "m" at home!

In math, we continued to look at sorting and kids sorted coins into muffin tins. Kids also explored patterns using sound, motion, and colors. I would create a pattern clapping, stomping, talking, and the kinder kids were awesome at mimicking my pattern! Next week, we will further explore patterns using the Smart Board.

In reading, we learned two new sight words, "play," and "with" using the book Play Time. Copies of this book are included in their Friday Folders to add to their home book bags. We also added a new poem to our Poetry Folders that uses color words. Children also created books inspired by one of our classroom's favorite books, Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten. This book is included in their Friday Folders and took them a couple days to complete as they really put a lot of effort into each page! Besides illustrating, children filled in the blank on each page that focuses on beginning letter sounds.

We all continue to work on classroom behavior, so please discuss with your kid what times are appropriate play times. Our day is so busy that any time spent on correcting this behavior takes away from valuable learning time, so please help me by discussing this with your kid! I have certainly seen some improvements, but we need to keep up the hard work and get to be even better students!

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