Mrs. Wishy Washy, Five Senses, and The Dollar Dash

Below is a peek at some of our kindergarten learning for this week ~

We will be reading Mrs. Wishy Washy and learning all about farm animals.  This is a fun rhyming story.  We will use this story to learn about rhyming words, story sequencing, and retelling the different parts of a story.  We will also create a few fun projects to go along with this story.

Our focus letters for this week will be Ii, Vv, and Zz.  We will have three new 'letter experts' to help us learn about the letter sounds, the sentences, and the poems.  The children have been creating pages for each letter as we learn about them.  They are getting much better at drawing and labeling their pictures during these activities. This is something that can easily be worked on at home too! :)  Encourage your child to stretch out letter sounds and to write the sounds they hear during writing activities.  I am not concerned about perfect spelling for most children.  The goal is to become more confident in writing and to take risks in writing even when it's hard!  We will soon begin writing our own personal stories during Writing Workshop.

During math, we will continue our work with exploring numbers numbers to 20.  We are showing numbers in different ways, exploring ten frames, and learning all about more, fewer, less, and equal.  The teen numbers can be tricky for many children.  We are using various materials and playing different math games to help us with our learning.  The children love using cards and dominoes to identify numbers!

During science, we will dig a bit deeper into our Five Senses unit.  We will be working with many different hands on materials while asking and answering questions.  Our goals is to explore our five senses and to think, observe, and write like scientists!

This Friday, we will be having a Dollar Dash to raise money for families who were affected by Hurricane Sandy.  Please think about sending in a donation for this very important fundraiser.  As some of you may know, I am originally from Staten Island, NY.  I spent this past weekend visiting with family and was overwhelmed by the destruction that took place.  My family is very fortunate and are safe, but there are so many families in need.  Please help our school to help others in need. Our goal is to ensure that all proceeds go directly to families in need.  Thank you!

I am looking forward to a great week in our kindergarten classroom.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Eileen Browne