Hello Kindergarten Families!

I hope you have all been enjoying your summer!  I can't wait to start the 2016-2017 school year and meet all of our classroom friends and their families!  I have a lot of information to share with you and you have so much to learn this year in Kindergarten!  Please check back to our classroom blog often for updates! Enjoy your last weeks of summer and I will see you all soon!

Tt Week

Our letter of the week is Tt.  Today, we made our Tt word list.  We also discussed different types of transportation.  The class made a list and selected their favorite transportation to write about.  This week, we will also be learning about turtles.

On Thursday afternoon, we will attend our school wide JumpRope for Heart Assembly.  More information will be sent home soon!

Our sight word focus will be 3 letter words this week.  The students did great on their 2 letter word quiz last week!

Rr is for Rainbow

Last week, our letter of the week focus was Rr.  We discussed the colors of the rainbow, and finished up our lesson with a rainbow craft.  A perfect classroom decoration for our upcoming season of Spring! The rainbows really brigthen up our room! :)

WRAPPING UP WINTER!

During the months of January and February, we were busy with a lot of different activities.  Check out a few of them below!  We are wrapping up all of our winter activities and we are ready to to leap into Spring!

ANIMALS IN WINTER

We learned about the different ways that animals adapt to the winter and made an idea web to organize the information that we learned from our books and research.

THE MITTEN

We read the story, "The Mitten", by Jan Brett. After reading the story, we worked on sequencing the events in the story. The students then had fun in the afternoon being creative while watercoloring some mittens.

SNOWMAN ADJECTIVES

We read so many fun snowman stories during the months of January and February.  We used these stories to help us make an anchor chart of all the words that describe a snowman!

LABELING

The students helped create sentences to label a snowman!

SNOWMEN AT NIGHT

One of our favorite snowman books was "Snowmen at Night", written by Caralyn Buehner. After reading the story, we made a list of all of the fun things the snowmen did at night!

SNOWMAN CRAFTS

The students used their fine motor and listening skills to make snowmen to decorate our classroom!

Fingerprint snowman painting was a lot of fun! Those small finger muscles were working hard!

MATH

In Math, we worked on taking apart numbers 1 - 10.  We made these number bonds to help us organize the information we learned. These anchor charts came in handy during the following chapter of addition.  We still refer to these anchor charts when we are working on subtraction as well!  They are a very helpful tool!

This Week...

This week, we will be learning about the letter Hh.  Today we made our Hh Word List and focused on printing the letter Hh.  We will do more writing later this week for our Hh theme. We will also begin our holiday activities this week. We began today by making paper chains to decorate our classroom! :) We will attend a school wide Glee Club assembly on Friday of this week. The Glee Club always does a great job of getting the students in the holiday spirit!

Reminder: You can order the Kindergarten Self-Portrait T-shirts this week online!!! These are keepsake shirts that have a self-drawn portait of each child in our class! The website to order the shirts is www.gatewayimpressions.com. They are $10 plus tax.

RAGING RIVERS READING FORMS

Reminder: Raging Rivers Reading Forms are due this Friday, December 4th.  (These are optional.)

    

Gobble, Gobble!

Happy Thanksigivng from these sweet Kinders!  We loved sharing the November Family Project!  I think all of these turkeys will definitely escape from the farmer in these cool disguises! Thank you families for helping with this project! We really enjoyed sharing and listening to all of the great ideas!

We had fun today making some Thanksigivng turkeys to decorate our rooom!  We worked hard on cutting and fine motor skills while creating these! Some of the students were anxious to bring them home to show their parents, so we decided to post a picture on our blog for all of you to see!