I love teaching Kindergarten in the Fall! There are so many wonderful “place based” learning opportunities to do with young children – from seasonal changes, to farming to life cycles of apples and pumpkins it is so much fun to be in Kindergarten! The weather looks great for the next few days so I hope to have a chance or two to do some learning outside!

And of course, our field trip is coming up (October 3), which is something to look forward to!

Here’s what our learning objectives are this week:

English Language Arts

• Introduction of Writer’s Workshop – Oral storytelling / answering questions
• Fundations Unit 1 Week 2 (Mm, Nn)
• What is Non-fiction?
• Concepts of Print

Math

• Beginning Unit 2
• Comparing numbers 1-10
• Describing shapes
• dot arrangements

Science

• Life Cycle of an Apple
• Weather Unit

Social Studies

• What is work? A job?
• Farming

Reminders:

1. Library books need to come back on Wednesdays (or before).
2. Scholastic Book Order is due Friday, September 29 Click here for online ordering

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The humid weather seems to be sticking around for a bit longer…hopefully we will stay cool and hydrated. Please send your child with a water bottle (WITH ONLY WATER) every day. Thanks!

Please send back your apple farm trip permission slips! 🙂 Looking forward to a great trip!

Here’s what we will be learning this week:

English/Language Arts:

• Rhyming words – hearing rhymes, making rhymes, matching rhymes
• Concepts of Print
• Fundations Unit 1 Week 1 Tt, Bb, Ff

Fine Motor:

• Practicing proper pencil grip
• scissor practice

Math

• Introduction of 5 frames
• describing shapes
• patterns
• Finishing Unit 1 and baseline assessments

Science

• Weather changes
• Hurricane Jose
• Preparing for weather

Social Thinking

• Continuing to practice classroom and school rules and routines
• Second Step with Mrs. Sullivan
• Friendship

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We had a great week last week as a class! Everyday I am enjoying getting to know your children better and seeing what they are able to do as a new kindergartner. I see they are an industrious group and like projects (yea!) and learning (woo hoo!) Last week we wrote our “Hopes and Dreams” and came up with our classroom rules.

In my classroom, I first have children brainstorm all the rules they think we should have. At their developmental age, it is a lot of “no this” and “no that.” The next day we sort the rules by if they are about “Me” “others” or “classroom.” Once that is done, we look at the rules and I ask, “if we shouldn’t (for example) hit or kick people, how should we treat our friends?” We then come up with three to four simple, positively written rules on how we should behave. The last step is signing the rules. Our completed rules list is below.

Our final list of rules

Our original list of rules, colored coded by sorting.

Every week, I’ll be listing what we will be learning by subject. I hope this helps you!

English Language Arts

• Name Recognition
• Introduction of Foundations (our Phonics program)
• Shared Reading of patterned text books, poetry, songs (Ex. Brown Bear, Brown Bear)

Math

• Understanding #1-5
• Counting
• Shapes

Science

• Colors

Social Thinking

• Listening Skills
• Practicing our classroom rules

Library starts this week! 🙂

Have a great week!

Ms. Purdin

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