I hope you all enjoyed another beautiful fall weekend with family and friends. The weather sure has been cooperative! Below are some highlights regarding our kindergarten learning.
Parent Conferences: We will have a half day (11:45 dismissal) this Wednesday for Parent Teacher Conferences. Thank you to those families that I have already met with. I look forward to meeting with more families this Wednesday and next Tuesday.
Literacy: We are working hard in our classroom learning all about what readers and writers do. As readers we have learned that we can read books in three different ways: read the pictures, read the words, and/or retell the story. We have also been practicing 'reading to someone' or 'partner reading'. We sit side by side, elbow to elbow, knee to knee, book in the middle, so we can both can see! We are doing a great job spending time with books each day. As writers, we have begun working on our very own stories. Just like Donald Crews, we are writing books about transportation. Some books are about cars, some are about buses, and the list goes on and on. I am so proud of our growing kindergarten readers and writers.
Math: This week we will continue counting, playing games, reading, writing, and comparing numbers 6-10. We have been using dominoes, dice, beads, and pipe cleaners to explore numbers in different ways. We are really excited because our friend Zero the Hero will visit our classroom on Monday. He loves the number zero and Monday will be the 30th day of school! We will work on using materials to make groups of 10 to help us count to 30!
Science: We will continue to explore our Five Senses this week while also learning about pumpkins. We will use our sense of sight, touch, smell, taste, and listening while exploring real pumpkins in our classroom. Thank you to my four parent volunteers for helping out with this fun and messy activity on Friday! We will donate our pumpkins to Eagle's Spooktacular event.
Spooktacular: Eagle's Spooktacular will take place on Friday 6-8pm. This is great time for children and families to share their Halloween costumes with their Eagle friends. We do not wear costumes to school on Halloween, but we can have fun wearing orange and black or festive shirts on this day.
Thank you for all of your support and have a great week!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Eileen Browne
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