The students are making their Jack-O-Lanterns while we learn about fall traditions.
Friday, October 30, 2015
Silly Squirrels
The class is creating a setting for this animal we see gathering nuts and acorns in the fall.
Week of October 30th Newsletter
October 30, 2015
Ms.
Mac’s Newsletter
Hello families of the Kindergarten class in room 138!
It has been a very busy couple of weeks in our
classroom. The students have been learning about life cycles of pumpkins. The class has also been using their math skills
to count and sort pumpkins by height. Today
the students estimated how many seeds were in our class pumpkin. Our class pumpkin had four hundred and
seventy pumpkin seeds in it. The class did a wonderful job counting by tens and
were very amazed with their finding!
The students have been practicing letter names and letter
sounds consistently since day one of school.
Now that we just ended day forty one of school the students have been
introduced (through the Fundations program) to the lower case letters: a, b, c,
d, e, f, g, i, m , n, o, r, s, t, and u. The class has added a new game that we
start Fundations with each day. The students play “Around the World” by
practicing their sounds and letter names.
In the game, each student wants to get around all the tables in the
classroom, and end back at the seat that they started from. This game has
become very popular and I enjoy seeing the students having fun while they
learn.
The class has been practicing writing simple sentences
in their journal and white boards. The
class has a visual of the sentence they are writing. Today’s sentence was “I am being a _______ for
Halloween.” After their sentence, the students
draw a picture that goes with their sentence.
It has been fantastic to see how their fine motor skills with drawing,
coloring, and writing have improved since their beginning days in
Kindergarten. The whole class has so
many more details in their pictures and students are able to form their letters
more confidently.
The class has also been continuing to strengthen their
recognition of rhyming words when we read books as a whole group. We notice that some rhyming words have the
same ending letters and this is a strategy we can use to help us predict if two
words rhyme. The class has also been practicing identifying how many syllables
are in different words. The students use their hands to clap out syllables. They have been very successful in their
practicing. The students are always
eager to show what they know. If
families want to do some syllable or rhyme practicing while they are reading at
home; it is always encouraged!
Our field trip for Goodnight Moon will be taking place
on Tuesday, November 3rd at 10:00 am. Next
week the students will have full days of school on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. During Thursday, November 5th the
students will have a half day and no school on Friday November 6th for
parent conferences. Thank you to all families for signing up so quickly for
parent conferences. I am looking forward
to meeting with each of you to discuss your child’s progress this year. We have very hard workers in our room and I
am enjoying getting to teach this enthusiastic class!
I hope everyone
has a safe and happy Halloween this weekend!
Sincerely,
Tara MacCallum
Friday, October 16, 2015
Nature's Beauty
I am demonstrating how to do a leaf rubbing before the class does it on their own. Their rubbings came out wonderfully!
Busy Builders
Thanks to Mrs. Shepard and Mrs. Vielleux, we now have large size building blocks for our engineers in class. They have been a big hit and are greatly appreciated!
Week of October 16th Newsletter
October 16th, 2015
Ms. Mac’s Newsletter
Hello families of the Kindergarten class of Room 138!
The leaves are turning as we are learning this time of year! The students have been been doing a lot of science and math work around leaves that we have collected as a class. The students are answering questions like are our leaves wide? Are our leaves thin or narrow? Our class has also been sorting leaves and making graphs based on leaf colors. As we get closer to Halloween we will be doing math and science work around pumpkins.
The letters in Fundations that the students have been learning over the past couple weeks have been A, B, C, D, F, G, I, M, N, O, S, T, and U. The students practice daily writing formation using white boards and markers as well as using pencils and journals. The students also use flash cards and magnetic tiles through daily routines to master letter identification and letter sound skills. The whole class has been doing a wonderful job learning and matching new rhyming words together and clapping out syllables in their names and other words.
Our next field trip is the GoodNight Moon performance that had been rescheduled for Tuesday, November 3rd at 10:00 am. Parent conferences are also coming up in the month of November. In the communication folder there will be sign-up sheets for the dates and times that parent conferences will be held. The parent conference allows all participants to get a full picture of how your child’s transition to school has been. It is wonderful to be able to discuss your child’s progress and goals for the next block of the school year. Please sign up for a time and return it in their communication folders.
The students have been enthusiastic and ready to learn. Each day the students are more confident in their routines and expectations in the classroom and in the school building. It is fantastic to already see their progress even in this short time we have been together. I hope everyone has a great weekend and is able to get outside to enjoy the foliage!
Sincerely,
Ms. Mac
Friday, October 9, 2015
Lovely Leaves
The students are creating patterns using different shaped leaves as well as different colored leaves.
Morning Magic
The students are practicing their rodeo greeting in Morning Meeting before jumping into counting and sorting stations in Math.
Tricky Trees
The class is practicing sorting big apples and little apples as well as big trees and little trees.
Fall Foliage
We are studying the cycle leaves go through and the colors leaves turn in the fall. The class is creating their very own fall tree.
Puzzle Problem Solvers
The DBS Kindergarten students show our Dartmouth College friend how amazing they are at puzzles.
Thursday, October 1, 2015
FUNdations
The students are practicing forming their letters and words to build the sentence "Tommy has a pet dog."
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