We finished our first full week of Kindergarten! We had a great week and worked hard! I think students, teachers and parents are all very tired. I hope those of you who were able to make it to our storybook parade enjoyed watching your children! They were so excited and cute!
In math this week, we worked on beginning to set up expectations for guided math and rotations. We are building our stamina so math will run smoothly in the future. We are focusing on numbers 1-5 currently and looking at the numbers in different ways. Our current unit is called, Introducing Number Concepts to 5.
In language arts, we have began our word study by working on recognizing our names, how many letters are in our names, beginning sounds of our names and we have focused on rhyming, too. We read the poem, I See, and focused on the sight word, "see." We wrote the word "see" several times and looked for rhyming words in our poems. We read the book Only One You and learned how we are all special and unique. We created a fish like the character Adri in the book. We also read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and wrote the letters in our names and made trees with our names on them. Be sure to check them out in our hallway! Another book we read this week was Chrysanthemum and we discussed how all or our names are special. We then created rainbow "tear art" names that we will display all year in our classroom. In writing, we learned expectations for writing workshop time and created our first story about things we like. Some students made pictures for their stories and could orally tell their story, while others also added words to their story. We began work in our handwriting book this week, too. We discussed and worked on correct pencil grip and we wrote the letter Ff. We will continue to work on our unit, "Developing Readers and Writers" for the next couple of weeks.
In social studies, we are focusing on why we have rules at home, school and in the community. We will also learn about authority figures in our home, school and community. We have established our social contract and follow that to work well together as a class. We are working hard to learn the expectations and procedures at our school. We can all be successful in kindergarten if we follow our social contract.
In science, we are working on a unit called "I Am a Scientist." We are learning about the meaning of science, discussing what we want to learn about in science, how to stay safe during science and focusing on what scientists do. We will continue this unit next week.
Reminders
If you have not filled out and returned the permission form from our counselor, Mrs. Hougham, please do so as soon as possible. This form will allow your child to work in social skills groups with our counselor and Westwood PROS (high school students who mentor). The students LOVE having this opportunity.
Please be sure to check out the "Dates to Remember" below.
If you have not filled out and returned the permission form from our counselor, Mrs. Hougham, please do so as soon as possible. This form will allow your child to work in social skills groups with our counselor and Westwood PROS (high school students who mentor). The students LOVE having this opportunity.
Please be sure to check out the "Dates to Remember" below.
Upcoming Dates to Remember:
Aug. 30 Cub Scout Information Night,
Cafeteria, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Sept. 3 Holiday, No School
Sept. 6 WatchDOGS Kick-Off,
Cafeteria, 6 p.m.
Sept. 11 Kindergarten Open House, 6:00-6:30 p.m.
Sept. 11 PTA General Meeting, 6:30 p.m.
Superstars & Birthdays:
Morris Superstar:
None
Morris August Birthdays:
Lauren-8/1
Ryan-8/25
Leighton-8/27
Happy Birthday Ryan!
