All About Apples!

All About Apples!

Thank you for coming to our Open House! I hope you enjoyed your time visiting our kindergarten classroom.  I will try to link the open house slideshow to this blog during the week.  The children are doing a great job and I'm so happy to work with them each day.  Below is an outline of what we are working on.

 So far we have earned about the letters Aa, Ss, Cc, & Mm.  This week we will learn about the letters Dd and Oo. We will have two new 'letter experts' this week to help us learn about our new letters.  Please practice printing these letters and identifying the sounds they make. Be sure to check your child's folder each day. Every child will eventually get the opportunity to help us learn about a letter.  Thank you for your support with this important kindergarten task! :)

We are also continuing to learn about one another as we crown a new child king or queen for the day! We have been having so much fun interviewing our friends and learning all about our likes and dislikes. This is also helping us to learn about our names, how many letters are in each name, and whose name is the longest. We are using unifix cubes to 'build' our names each day. This helps us to compare how long or how short our names are! We are 'sneaking' in some math and counting during our literacy work. :)

As readers, we will begin learning about what reading looks like and what it sounds like in our classroom.  We will talk about the three different ways to read a book: read the pictures, read the words, & retell a familiar story.  We will spend a lot of time practicing working as readers this week.

During math, we are counting, writing numbers 1-5, and arranging and rearranging objects to match numbers. We are also building towers and drawing what we see.  We can move objects around but the number is still the same! Continue to practice counting and printing numbers at home too. Talk about which numbers come before and after a given number. 

During science, we will begin a fun mini unit on apples. We will read many nonfiction books about apples and create several projects to go along with this theme. We will even use real apples for some of our projects. Feel free to send in a picture of your family if you have been apple picking! Write a sentence to go along with the picture and we can share them during this unit.

Thank you so much for your support. We are looking forward to a fun week of kindergarten learning!

Sincerely,
Mrs. Eileen Browne
PS    I will send home a  Scholastic Book Order this week.  These book orders are optional.  They have some great titles for discounted prices.  Your purchases help me to purchase books for our classroom as well.  You can send in a check with the paper order or you can order online with a credit card.  Look for the order in your child's folder.  I will place the orders next weekend.