Learning Stations, Games, Leaders!

Our kindergarten friends have really gotten into the swing of how to follow their I Can charts in learning stations. While in stations they are demonstrating self-control.  
We have the following stations open: Reading, Big Books, Writing, Working With Words, Math.
Next week Mr. Niehoff will be teaching small groups how to use the IPAD.  We will learn how to take it out of the cart, the function buttons, how to put in their ear buds (if you haven't sent your child's ear buds in yet please do so), he will go over one APP. Then, he will show the children how to plug their device back into the port to charge.

During shared reading this week our focus has been the the characters, setting, and retelling events.

In math we are going to be wrapping up numeration, however these skills are going on going all year.  
I am currently assessing the children on the skills that we sent home to you at the beginning of the school year.
We will be moving into geometry shortly.
Please make sure that you are counting with your child both forward and backward often.
Show your child a number 0-10 and ask them to make a set with that many.
Please move to 11-20 if they are ready.

HOMEWORK- Today you received your child's homework calendar.
Please visit ABCYA.COM to complete the homework assignments.
You also received a new October reading log.  
It was so heart warming to see all of the reading logs for September.  Let's keep that spark going for October!


Field Trip permission slip and money is due no later than October 6th.

One To One Counting
Dollar Store Blotters and Numbers
Great way to learn your phone number

We share our writing with our friends

I can one to one count and compare

We read and one to one point in Big Book Station 

Count and compare
We talk in math. We say, "I have 2 and 2 is smaller than 3." Some of my friends were heard saying, "5 is more than 3."

We can make our friends' names with letters and PlayDoh stamping
This is a great way to practice high frequency words at home and the letters in names

Letter identification bingo and letter sound bingo

In writing station we use drawings to tell a story and letter sounds and words too!

Olivia shared with me who was in her story, where they were, and what they were doing!
We have authors and illustrators are in Rainbow Valley!