We experienced a FUN FILLED FRIDAY! We had senses fun centers, a writing celebration, a mystery reader and most exciting: PJ DAY for filling our rockstar jar with rocks for awesome behavior! I am so proud of each of them!!! It was well deserved! We are all working harder to make sure we help one another as a classroom team! It was especially comfy , cozy to be in our pj’s for quiet time! 🙂
Science: BIG thanks go out to Mrs. Helmholdt, Mrs. Hoag, and Mrs. Dykstra for their wonderful help in leading a sense center!!! It wouldn’t have been possible without you! We got to explore our sense of sight with a float/sink experiment! We put different fall items in a pail of water to test whether they float or sink!! The most exciting find? A pumpkin floats!!! We also put our sense of smell to the test as we took turns smelling hidden scents and deciding whether this was a pleasant or unpleasant smell to us! When it came to our sense of taste we took a taste of something sour, salty, bitter, and sweet! It was fun to hear their comments and see their faces! 🙂 Finally, we explored our sense of touch by feeling what was inside our hidden touch bags. We used adjectives to describe what we were feeling as we tried to sketch and label our drawings. We even got to learn a little about braille as we explored some books in braille! We’re loving science! We will continue to explore our senses next week!
Mystery Reader: We had our fourth mystery reader, Mrs. Jones, Landon’s mom! She was a BIG surprise to Landon. She read The Giant Jam Sandwich , a fun book with rhyming that drew us all in! Thank you!!! I will continue to line of mystery readers on Friday’s in late November/December soon. If you have a Friday that works, please don’t hesitate to e-mail me! We would also love some DAD readers! 🙂
Writing Workshop: Your kindergartener has been working so hard on their writing. We have learned that writers first think of a story, then picture their story in their mind, next they sketch/draw their story, say their story and then write their story. The kindergarteners have worked so hard that we ended the week with picking our “best” writing so far. We “fixed and fancied” our “best” piece by adding color, more labels and words to it. We celebrated our “best” writing with Mrs. Stutz’s class. The kindergarteners shared their writing with a partner from Mrs. Stutz’s class. We then got to celebrate our writing pieces with a yummy punch juice cheers together. We can’t wait to celebrate more writing pieces throughout the year.
Play Time: We look forward to our play to learn time! It’s a time to get creative, be imaginative, take-turns, communicate, and just have fun! This week I got out the dress-up box!! Huge hit and lots of laughs! Many of these photos were requested and followed by, “Can you please post on the blog and e-mail to my mom!?” 🙂
Explorer of the Jungle: We started our second time this week of being the explorer of the day! We will each get a turn to take home Banana’s , our traveling class monkey. Banana’s comes with a writing journal where your child is asked to complete a page of what they did together. Encourage them to draw a detailed picture with labels and try a sentence! We have had fun this week hearing what Banana’s did at his sleepover at Owen’s, Jack’s, and Sydney’s house! We will pick a stick with your child’s name at random each day to decide who takes Banana’s next! So exciting!
Color Word of the week: Black. We made our black color book and learned our black song.
Popcorn Words: me, yes and no. These words have popped up everywhere. The kindergarteners practice these words by spotting them in our morning message and finding them in our popcorn word books! Any extra practice at home with our flashcards will help your kindergartener spot these words even quicker.
Math: We have finished our first unit in Math and are just beginning Unit 2. We will continue to identify numbers and shapes. Also, we will start to learn about a 5 group. No math homework was given this week. It will come home again this Wednesday.
Handwriting: We have continued to work on learning the rest of our jump frog letters. Your kindergartener practiced how to write uppercase B, R, N, and M.
Reader’s Workshop: This week we learned about making connections to what we are reading by saying, “That has happened to me!” and then sharing our story. We practiced sharing connections when we read with our reading buddies. We are building our reading stamina and our now up to 5 minutes!!! Way to go readers!!! We also worked on retelling a story, by using a flow map, to sequence the story into first, next and last. We read Goldilocks and the Three Bears together and then learned how to use a “flow map” to retell our story. Please work with your child at home on a retell after your done reading together! We will continue to work on this during our workshop time.
Important Information and Reminders:
- Library: We are back to our regular Wednesday visit. Please help your child remember to return their book by Wednesday.
- Snacks: Please help your child remember a daily healthy snack. Thanks!
- Turkey Trot: Monday, October 28 at Eagle’s Stadium. Late registration will take place at the gate.
- Fall Parade and Party: Plans are underway! Kindergarten parade will take place at 9:45am, followed by our Fall Party from 10:00-11:00am.
- Parent-Teacher Conferences: November 4,5 and 6. Information with your scheduled time will arrive home to you soon. Thanks for filling out the survey!
- Fall Book Fair: at Georgetown will be November 4-7. More details and information coming home soon.
Hope everyone is staying dry this rainy weekend!
~Ms. Yankee
