This Week in Kindergarten…

Popcorn Words: the, dog

Color Word: blue

Reader’s Workshop…

This week during reader’s workshop, we practiced rereading our books to try to learn more information. We practiced by noticing things in the pictures the first time through the book and then looked through it again, noticing more things. 

Writer’s Workshop…

During writer’s workshop this week, the Kinders had to help Mrs. Baker try to draw a picture that was tricky for her. They used their whiteboards to help draw a picture of a campfire. They added many details and got to share on the screen for the whole class to see. 

Math…

This week during math, we started learning about addition and subtraction. We started to learn about this by using our foam squares. The Kinders like to get out our math tools and use them to learn. We also used our math tools to compare numbers. We built towers to compare numbers 1-5. We finished up the week by comparing circles and not circles (squares and rectangles). 

Literacy…

During our literacy time this week, we continued our ABC Bootcamp. We studied the letters Kk, Ll, Mm and Nn this week. We also broke our class into 2 groups. One of the groups worked on tracing and writing their names and the other group practiced rhyming words. 

The Color Blue

This week we learned about the color blue. We practiced writing the word blue, read books with blue characters, found and colored things that are blue and made a blue craft. We made Pete the Cat! They are so cute! They are hanging up in our classroom right now, but I will send them home soon. Enjoy the cute pictures of them! 

Little Blue Truck…

We read a great book called Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle. We had so much fun reading it, we decided to make our own Little Blue Truck! We colored our trucks blue and then added the animals from the story to our picture!

Constitution Day…

On Tuesday, we learned about Constitution Day. We learned that the constitution is a book of rules. We read a colored and read a book about it, we made an American flag headbands and colored hands to show that we promise to follow the rules at school! 

GVSU Baseball…

This year we are very lucky to have the opportunity to welcome GVSU Baseball players and their coach (otherwise known as Cambry’s dad) into our classroom. They will be coming many Fridays this year to play math games with the Kinders in our class. The kids were so excited to welcome them into our room and had fun playing math games with them! We look forward to many more fun times with them!

Upcoming Dates…

This next week at our school is SPIRIT WEEK! Please check each day listed below for the way to help us celebrate school spirit leading up to the Hudsonville homecoming football game. 

Monday, September 23: Music; Library – please help your Kinder remember to return their book; PAJAMA DAY!

Tuesday, September 24: Gym; CRAZY SOCK DAY!

Wednesday, September 25: Art; CRAZY HAIR DAY!

Thursday, September 26: STEAM; SCHOOL PICTURES TODAY!

Friday, September 27: Music; BLUE/GOLD DAY and WALK-A-THON!