This Week in Kindergarten
Monday- 1st full day of school for ALL of us!
Tuesday- Book Orders Due!!!! NWEA reading test.
Wednesday- Mrs. Bartz will be out for the day. Mrs. Caplea will be the guest teacher.
Thursday- Picture Day! NWEA math test.
Friday- We made it a whole week!!!
Kindergarten News
Weeks 1 & 2
We have had great weather for these two weeks of school!
Please continue to send a filled water bottle everyday!
We really need it to keep us going on these long days now!
Thank you so much for getting your child into Google Classroom
and practicing remote learning this past Friday.
If you still need help with Google Classroom please
send me an email right away.
ALL REMOTE LEARNING WILL SOURCE THROUGH GOOGLE
CLASSROOM.
I will be posting all classroom information on Google
Classroom or the BLOG.
Weeks 3 & 4
We now are starting our full week of learning. This includes
Reading, Journal, Centers, math, Daily 5, Phonics, writing workshop,
Morning Meeting, Calendar, Social Studies, Science and Handwriting.
Center time will run through a two week cycle. We will do Math
Centers for the second week and are starting Table Centers this week.
Math Centers will focus on numbers to 10, patterns and creating
with shapes. Your child will trace numbers, make numbers with
play dough and match numbers to corresponding dots. Your child will
also focus on how to play a game with 1-3 friends. Table centers
focus on playing cooperative games, practicing letters, and
doing art projects.
Reading lessons will include rhyming, Listening for sounds, letter name
recognition, listening for letter sounds, and learning how
to “Read to Self” and “Work on Writing” (Daily 5). I have
already taught the lesson “How to Read a book”...your child is
learning to read a book 3 ways:
Read the pictures, Read the words, Retell.
Journal writing started with writing a simple sentence and will
be done daily.
Stories- We have read many stories these two weeks, including
Big Green Monster, Chrysanthemum and Big Orange Splot.
Morning Meeting is when we will practice greeting each other by
making eye contact and being polite. We will all get to share about a
topic each morning.(ex. Favorite color). Our goal is to be a good
listener to whomever is speaking. We are going to be reading books
in morning meeting that help us understand our thoughts and feelings
and help us better get along with each other at school.
Writing Workshop will start with “I can tell a story”.
Your child will learn to tell a story about themselves, telling what
happened first, next and last. We will practice this for several
weeks before we write/draw our stories on paper.
Math will first focus on identifying numbers to 10, shapes,
counting to 20, patterns, and sharing and playing math
games with 1-3 friends.
Calendar time includes the date and other math concepts that
are repeated daily.
The first Social Studies unit is learning about “Who am I?” and
the first Science unit is “Weather”.
Bathroom Breaks/Lunch/Recess
Talk to your child about how bathroom breaks, lunch and recess
are going at school. Let me know if there is anything
that I can help with. :)
Have a good week!
