Sunday, September 28, 2014

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

Sunday, September 21, 2014

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.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

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

Sunday, September 7, 2014

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.