This year our room parents are C. Griffith and L. Fand. They will be contacting you over the next few weeks and asking for you to volunteer your time and talents this school year.
Please get involved. :)
This week we are reviewing high frequency words the, my, I. Please review these often.
During small group learning time the children learned how to log onto the computer and play a language art game on Starfall.com. For many, this was a familiar site. We will be visiting many learning sites throughout the year. If you visit the John B. Dey webpage you can click on links that will take your child to many kindergarten learning sites.
During small group we also worked on writing. I am encouraging inventive spelling. If your child asks you how to spell a word, work on sounding out the consonants together. Vowels are tricky, so they will come later. If you see they can handle vowels, GO FOR IT! :)
I encourage daily writing and drawing at home. For the month of September we don't have homework. Writing and drawing in a daily at home journal is a great way to begin the homework routine.
Today, the children will check out library books. Please return the books by their due dates. They will visit the library every other Thursday for a lesson and check out. If check out looks like it is going smoothly we will send them to the library in the mornings to return and check out as well. Mrs. Hardesty, our librarian, will let us know when she feels the children are ready for this on their own.
As you have seen we are working on writing "the school way," counting, and identifying the numbers 0-10 in and out of sequence during our math time. Ask your child to share with you the number poems they have learned! One of our kindergarten friends shared with the class that she we home and taught her daddy the poems! :)
Please feel free to comment on our blog. I would love to get some conversations going with our Rainbow Valley families.
Kassidy came home today and was teaching us the number poems! So proud of her!
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