New Student and writing books!

Today we welcomed a new student to our classroom.  We were very excited to add our new friend, Emersynn to our Kindergarten family.  She brings our class up to 24 students with 10 girls and 14 boys!  Please keep this in mind when sending snack from here on.  Ask your child if he/she did anything to make our new friend feel welcomed today!

In reader's workshop, we have been working on reading books with patterns.  This week we are working in partners to WRITE and ILLUSTRATE a pattern book!  The kids have gotten to choose their pattern and are working hard to create amazing books.  I will have a set out at conferences and your child will be bringing his/her book home on Wednesday.  Keep your eyes out for this awesome project!

We have been learning so much about woodland animals this week.  The turtles and frogs have been especially fun.  We have started our letters over and each day read a book all about that letter, use something messy to make our letters (applesauce, butter, colored chalk) and we do an action on a large letter taped to the floor (ant walk, bounce, crawl).  The kids are loving the new letter review and they have learned so much since the beginning of the year.  In math, we are working on our 0-10 numbers - writing them, counting them, drawing sets with that many, breaking them apart (9 can be made from 5 blue smiley faces and 4 red smiley faces...etc.) Continue working on letter and number recognition.

Conferences are Thursday and Friday of NEXT week.  Everyone has signed up for a time (YAY YOU!).  If you need another reminder of what time your conference is, you can contact the office or email me and we will let you know.  I am looking forward to discussing our Kindergarten goals and your child's progress so far.

Tomorrow is Fire Safety Day!  The fire trucks will be here and we will practice a fire drill in the morning. It is sure to be a fabulous Friday!

Hexagons

Did you know....
A hexagon is ANY closed, 2D shape that has six straight sides.  We have discussed it in class and the Kindergartners LOVE it!  See if you can find the 3 hexagons below...

Kindness

We earned lunch in the classroom on Monday and it was a HUGE success.  The kids did a great job earning all of the letters in "listening" and we had fun having lunch together.  Our next behavior goal is KINDNESS.  We read a book about kindness and have discussed ways to show others kindness at home and at school.  One important philosophy to remember: If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.  We have reviewed this more than once and will continue to do so.  When we earn all of the letters in KINDNESS, we earn a movie party!  Be Kind, Kindergarten!  Ask your child if they did anything kind for someone today.