Apple Day

Apple Day was a blast!  We had a great time.  I hope to have pictures up by Monday.  Have a great weekend and enjoy your little "Appleseed"!

Centers City

We are busy this week getting accustomed to our center routine.  The class has been divided into five groups of four and rotate through three centers each day.  There are not many "paper/ pencil" centers.  Most of the centers involve some kind of manipulative.  We are using pictures of the class in two of the centers giving the children a chance to match names with faces.  They are working with color words, magnetic letters, beginning sounds and visiting the listening center.  We will continue these centers through next Tuesday and will begin similar centers next Wednesday.  The beauty of centers is that the children are able to reinforce new skills while working with a small group and with me.  It is a very important part of our day and really helps them mature and become more independent. 


Friday we will have our special apple centers for our Apple Day celebration.  Be sure to follow the link to check out last year's Apple Day Glog for a sneak peek of our upcoming Friday fun.

Alphabet Party!!

We had fun at our alphabet party today.  We have had a very busy day with all our activities.  We began the day coloring our nametag necklaces and then read an alphabet book on our big screen.  Later during our alphabet centers we "played" with our names.  We made our names out of playdoh, matched letter stickers to the letters on our names, built our names with alphabet Lego's, picked up tiny letters made of pasta with tweezers to make our names and matched clothespins with letters on them to our name cards.  During math we made a special snack with Scrabble Cheez-Its, Alphabits Cereal and gummy letters.  We sorted the letters and tried to make our names with the letters we had.  It was a lot of fun!  We ended the day eating our snacks and watching The Letter Factory.  We had a GREAT day!! 

 Nametag Necklaces

 Clothespin Names

 Alphabet Legos

 Letter Stickers

 We all have an "Aa" in our names.

 Pasta Names

 Seth spelled his name with Cheeze-Its.

Names with "Yy"



Next week, we will begin our Harcourt Storytown reading series.  Tuesday your child's folder will come home with a monthly homework calendar, a reading log and this nine weeks star words.  We are going to be working hard to become great readers and writers.  Please help your child with this by reading with them every night and completing the nightly homework.

Have a great long weekend!!

Wild Wednesday!

Whew!  We were busy and chatty today, but still managed to get a lot accomplished.  We are quickly reviewing the alphabet with our letter a day unit.  We are already to Ll and Mm!  Today we sorted jelly beans by color and then graphed them.  We also kissed our Kk's and put jewels on our Jj's.  We are having a good time learning whose name begins with which letter too.  We will end the week with Nn and Oo and will finish our review next Thursday.  This is all leading up to our Alphabet Party on Friday the 2nd.  More info and a wish list for the party will be coming home soon.

Friday Info

The children are bringing home their yellow folders today with their weekly newsletter/ behavior report.  Please take the time to look over the newsletter and talk to your child about his/ her behavior good or bad.  This will help them know that you know what is going on in the classroom.  As some of you know Ooops notes began going home yesterday.  Several went home today as well.  One reason for this is to make them understand that there are consequences for their behavior.  It may take a little longer for some of them to settle in to our daily routine than others.  Please be patient with them and the Ooops notes!  We will be working hard here to adjust to the appropriate behavior.  I will let you know how it is progressing.  Be on the look out for some great behavior notes soon.  Have a wonderful weekend!

Busy Week

Monday we began our letter of the day study.  We have had a great time diving into the alphabet this week.  On Monday we made alligators and ants and ate animal crackers.  Yesterday we added band aids to Bb's that we colored blue, black or brown.  We also drew a picture of ourselves with a boo-boo and a band aid on it.  We painted bears, read Blueberries for Sal and ate blueberries.  We also sorted and graphed gummy bears.  They were a big hit!  Today we discussed Cc and listed a lot of Cc words.  We colored C's and glued comics to them, created caterpillars made from two different colored c's that we made patterns with.  We even had carrots for a special treat.  This morning we frosted our birthday cakes we worked on yesterday.  We used a special paint that looks like real icing.  They look delicious!

We will complete this week studying Dd and Ee.  There are many more surprises on the way!

Welcome to Kindergarten

We had a great first week of kindergarten!  Thanks for all you have done to make it a success.