KINDERGARTEN

September 4-7 NEWS

DATES: 

SEPTEMBER 6:  BOOK ORDERS ARE DUE!

                           I WILL BE SENDING THEM IN ON THURSDAY.

MONDAY  September 17:  Our first delayed start.

READING:

This week we begin our study of the letters of the alphabet.  We do Aa and Bb on separate days then we zoom to 2 letters a day until we are finished with all 26.  We will be doing various ABC activities and paper work, also making an ABC sound book during this time.  In the folders I gave you on the first day you have the alphabet with how to make the sounds on the back. 

We will be doing our formal testing soon.

This week we are working on letters Aa-Ff and learning the sight word I.  We are learning parts of a book and learning that when we read we read from left to right.

WRITING:

We started journal writing the first day of school.  I try to get the children to draw and write what they can—even if it’s the first sound they hear.  Like if they drew about playing football they would hear the /f/ in football and write an f.

We are learning about being a speaker and a listener- at group time.

Science:

We have watched our caterpillar grow, form a chrysalis ( a butterfly forms a chrysalis-a moth forms a cocoon.) this week we’ve seen the butterfly emerge and Tuesday we released 2 males.  The children were shown to look on the bottom sections of the wings to find if there are dots—if there are it’s ma male.  The female have no black dots on rear wings.