First Week Of Kindergarten

This week was a great first week. Our kindergarten friends are excited about learning.
This week the students practiced how to properly use scissors, glue sticks, put crayons away in their boxes, walk to the carpet, walk in the hallway, and most importantly treat one another with kindness and respect.
Each table has a name. Ask your child what their table name is and what it means.
The students worked in their journals. They wrote about a time that they we kind, showed self control, shared, cleaned up ( this was a fan favorite to write about), or took turns with someone. During this lesson we learned about how and where to write our code date, and three star coloring.
We are working on numbers, tallying, counting, the days of the week, months of the year, and birthdays during calendar.  Does your child know his or her birthday?
In math we worked on measuring height and length.
Just a few friendly reminders...
Please initial your child's folder daily.
Please note that snack lasts 6-8 minutes
The children earn tickets on a daily basis for working together with their table mates. Some weeks we have all tables win prizes on Friday other weeks we have one or two who have the most tickets.   Encourage your child to try their best each new day. Our class rules are in their folders on their behavior calendars.
We will practice appropriate classroom behavior daily through modeling. Mrs. Stinard and I show the kids what the behaviors look like.

A sneak peek at next week...
We will be working on building our classroom community through reading stories about appropriate classroom behavior.
The children will be working in small groups everyday. Right now they are randomly grouped.
Each small group lesson will last about 8 minutes. (Baby steps)
They will learn a new nursery rhyme. So be listening for it. (Feel free to review Hey Diddle Diddle.)