Our Week in Review

Our Morning Meeting Area

Our first art project

    

    
















     Well, we finished our first week of Kindergarten and I have to say, the kids did great!  Everyone has adjusted well and they seem to be enjoying their time in school.  I am having a great time getting to know everyone and am looking forward to the rest of our school year.
     This week, we learned so much! We learned all about our class and school rules and how to make good choices.  We learned about what happens when we make good choices and what happens when we make poor choices.  Our behavior clip chart has been a great success so far!  I hope you got a chance to see the letter I sent home explaining our behavior system.  We learned about how to be bucket fillers also.  I will explain the bucket fillers program at Back to School Night on Thursday. 
     Each morning we begin with a small bit of morning work and then we meet on the rug for our morning meeting.  We start with our morning message, which is a message that I write to the class to let them know about our day.  We circle the sentence stoppers (punctuation), star words, and commas.  Have your child show you our star words or sentence stoppers in a book you are reading!Then we work on the calendar and math concepts.  We learn about our star words, letter of the week, and new poem for the week. 
     We began our first chapter in Math and we will be learning about sorting and different position words, such as over, under, and on.  Math homework may be sent home during the week, but it might not be every single night.  Please look in the homework section of your child'd BEE book each night to check for Math homework.
     We began learning how to complete some of our literacy centers this week.  The kids learned how to work in our poetry center first.  In this center, they match the words from each of our poems with their group members.  Then they put a copy of the poem in their poetry journals.  The kids then look through the poem and circle our sentence stoppers (punctuation) in red, star words in green, and commas.  We do the same thing during our morning message.  The next center we learned was Read and Write Around the Room.  The students get to choose a pointer and a marker and they look for words around the room and write them on a paper.  We also learned how to work in the Creation Station, which is where they complete an art project for the week.  We will slowly be learning how to participate in each center for the next few weeks and then all of our centers will be up and running!
     This week I sent home our first homework calendar.  Please have your child complete the homework each night.  I know the week can get busy, but having them be responsible for work each night is very important.  It will prepare them for the later years in school. The calendar must be handed in each Friday.  I also sent home the reading minutes and reading minutes pledge.  Please read with your child each night.  Write down how many minutes you have read and send the log in at the end of the month.  This is a school wide program and I would really like to have our class participate.  I will also be placing our star words on index cards.  The ring of index cards will be in their homework section in the BEE book.  Please review the words with your child each night.
     I know this was a lot of information to take in, but I hope to keep you informed of all of the happenings in our classroom.  I am looking forward to seeing you all at Back to School Night on Thursday at 6:30.  Have a great weekend!