October 6-10

Reading
We are reading a fun book this week called Plaidypus Lost. A little background so you can talk about it with your child. A girl has a stuffed platypus made with plaid and she takes it all over the community and keeps losing it. We will be reviewing parts of a book, author, and illustrator. Students will continue to "brainstorm" and learn how to "make connections". I will also introduce sequencing a story.

Writing
Students will draw/write about ideas they get from a book. They will be encouraged to "add more detail" in order to "tell more" about their story. They will share with one another and learn how to respond to stories by using these sentence starters: I learned... and I want to know...

Phonics
The vowel Ii.

Math
Numbers to 10. Sorting. New math vocabulary words: six, seven, eight, nine, ten, one more, one less, the same number.

Social Studies
Community and community helpers. We are going on a walking field trip Wednesday at 10:15-12:30 and are still looking for chaperones. Please dress your child warm hat day because we will be walking around the community.

Science
Our five senses. Fabrics.

Picture day is Thursday. Please send your money and form with your child this week.

There is a kindergarten report card information meeting tomorrow at 3pm in the school library. We will be going over our new report card for the kindergarten and answering any questions. Please come if at all possible. Hope to see you all there.

Mr. Edwards

September 29 - October 3

Reading
We are reading Miss Bindergarten takes a Field Trip with Kindergarten this week. It is a rhyming book about different places in a community.

Phonics
We are focusing on letters S and C and rhyming this week.

Writing
Students will be getting writing ideas from the book I Love School. We will be writing about things we do in kindergarten.

Math
We will continue to learn/review our numbers to 10 while learning new math vocabulary.

Social Studies
We will begin our "community" study and focus on places and people in the community. (community helpers)

Science
This week I will introduce the five senses and we will do some fun activities using our senses. This is a great way for students to start using describing words and more detail but we will get into that later in the year.

Mr. E

Math!

September 22-26

Reading
Our story for this week is This is the Way We Go to School. We will be discussing and doing activities about how we get to school and how else we could get to school. We will be learning early reading skills such as identifying author and illustrator, how to use the pictures to help understanding, where we start to read, where we go at the end of a line, cover, title page, etc.

Phonics
We will be learning letters Aa and Pp this week. Also, we are beginning to learn about rhymes.

Writing
Students will here a story about school. They will write and share about what they do at school.

Math
We will continue to learn numbers to ten as well as new math vocabulary such as different and same.

Science
We will be naming our pet katydid this week and introducing the five senses.

Social Studies
We will continue to discuss feelings and how to be a classroom and school community.

Students will be introduced to more of our normal school day schedule as they continue to improve at our routines and procedures. I am also hoping to introduce our classroom Dojo classroom rewards to the children tomorrow. I will email a copy to you so that you are aware too.

I will be out on Tuesday and Wednesday for a funeral in Minnesota but Miss Erin and my substitute will keep the learning going. I will prepare the students for my absence but please remind them to "do their best" on those days. Thank you.

September 15-19

This week we will continue reviewing and learning rules, routines and procedures. As well as starting some of our kindergarten curriculum. Our book of the week is The Little School Bus. We will be learning numbers one and two and how to describe "same" and "not the same". Students will be introduced to our writing community.

Mr. Edwards

September 8-12

Week two will be more of what we did the first week. Learning classroom and school rules, routines, and procedures. Students will continue to learn each others names and get a chance to make new friends through play time. Students will get a math workbook this week and we will slowly start our math curriculum. Have a great week all.

Here is a song to help your little ones remember our rules!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AHmrQfLl_w

Enjoy!