Oh what a day! What a happy day!

Thank you for sending your children to kindergarten today ready to learn! Every single child was well mannered, and worked hard.
Today was a busy day. During our shared reading time we read Hey Diddle, Diddle and talked about fiction and non-fiction. We had a dish and a spoon in our classroom, and
they ran away! That's right folks! They ran away!  Good thing they left us a clue as to where they were.
Ask your child where they found them. 
Hint! Hint! We will be going for our first library lesson tomorrow. ;)

During our first day we talked about making connections to the stories we read.  Today, we read the story The Kissing Hand. We learned that we also had many of the same feelings that Chester the raccoon had when he had to go to school on the first day.

In math today we began our daily calendar math.  We talked about the days of the week, months of the year, and the number of the day.  We also identified numbers and played SPLAT.
This is a great game to play with your child at home to help with number identification.
http://www.primarygames.co.uk/pg2/splat/splatsq100.html

Today we talked about how numbers are everywhere in our world!

We are learning this week the color red song! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMfkODJw30M

Both Hey, Diddle, Diddle and the color red poem/song will be the first to pieces of literature that will go into our big book poetry station.

Speaking of stations...Today we did our first small group rotations. 
We are encouraging  staying on task, and working cooperatively with your partner.

Thank you so much for sending in your forms.  If you have any others at home please return them as soon as possible.

I am working on gathering volunteers for our class. If you didn't sign up at Open House and would like to volunteer please send me an E-mail.
Thanks!