This Week in Kindergarten…

POPCORN WORDS: DO, YOU, TO

COLOR WORD: PURPLE

We read different books about the color purple this week in kindergarten. The Kinders are so good at finding the color word in our morning messages! We had fun watching a song and video called One Eyed One Horned Flying Purple People Eater. We liked it so much, we had to watch it twice! We ended our purple week by making our own One Eyed One Horn Flying Purple People Eater craft and wearing the color purple. 

READING:  This week during reading the Kinders practiced how to “lean and tell” and “turn and talk” about books.  We discovered that every book includes the same parts – the front and back of book, title, author & illustrator names, title page, pictures and words. The Kinders learned what a GOOD FIT book is. A GOOD FIT book is a book that looks interesting to them. They can look at the cover and the pictures to get an idea if it’s a book they’d like to read and keep in their blue book box. The Kinders thought it was exciting to get to “shop” for books on their own! 

MATH:   This week in math, we continued practicing our number writing and finding groups of numbers one through four. We also had a lot of fun telling addition and subtraction stories. We used fun pictures in our math books to tell stories and the Kinders themselves got to be part of the addition and subtractions stories. They loved being part of the math stories! On Friday, we had fun playing fire safety math games!  

WRITING: During writing this week, we continued to practice writing about things that we have all experienced together at school. We did a shared writing where we all wrote together and had fun writing on white boards too. We kept adding details to our pictures and labeling our drawing. We always label ourselves in our drawings, but are beginning to label other things too. We had fun writing about our fourth grade buddies and then gave them the papers to keep. It was so exciting when they came to bring us to the bus on Friday and had written us notes too! They take such good care of us! 

LITERACY: This week we started practicing beginning word sounds. We did a great job listening to the word and telling the sound that came first! We practiced tracing our letters using dry erase markers. Every time we can use markers, it is fun! We also practiced matching upper and lower case letters and coloring them the same color. 

FIRE SAFETY: On Friday, we had two Georgetown Firefighters visit our classroom…Firefighter Dan and Firefighter Craig. They taught us all about fire safety. They showed us about tools and toys and we did a great job at being able to tell the difference. We learned about smoke detectors and how to STOP-DROP-AND ROLL. We loved learning about their uniforms. Firefighter Craig let us see his uniform up close. The firefighters brought their fire truck to our school and we got to see it! They showed us all of the tools they have in their fire trucks. It was very exciting to have real firefighters come to Georgetown to see us! It was a super fun fire safety day! 

WALK-A-THON: On Friday, we also had our walk-a-thon scheduled. Unfortunately, it had to be canceled because of the rainy weather. Mrs. Elders, a para-pro at our school, taught us Zumba instead. We still had fun!

MYSTERY READER: Claire’s grandma surprised her by coming to our classroom and reading to us. It was fun to have her visit our room! She even brought along Claire’s mom and little sister, Mia. We had fun listening to the story! I will be sending out a message soon about signing up to be a mystery reader for our class! It’s so fun!!

GROCERY STORE: When we walked in to our room on Monday morning, it was fun to see our dramatic play center had been changed into a grocery store! We couldn’t wait until free choice time to try it out!

UPCOMING DATES:

Monday, October 8: PE

Tuesday, October 9: ART; Library…please bring back your books

Wednesday, October 10: STEAM

Thursday, October 11: MUSIC

Friday, October 12: PE; Wear black and white; Fast Friday…dismissal at 12:15; please email me if your Kinder needs a sack lunch from the hot lunch service for our early release day.

Tuesday, October 23: Turkey Trot

Thursday, October 30: Picture retake day

Wednesday, October 31: Fall party and parade…If you emailed me to volunteer with supplies and/or helping at the party, you will be hearing from Mrs. Penty soon. She is our party coordinator for the Fall party. Thank you to everyone who is helping to make this party a fun day for the Kinders!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!!          ~Mrs. Baker

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