Category Archives: fundations in kindergarten

Industrious Workers

We have been producing lots of great work this week, and many pieces went home today in the folder. Here are some explanations about what your child has been learning this week:

Weather Graph: Every day we record the weather. We have been keeping track since the beginning of September. Today, children recorded on their own individual graphs the September weather. Ask your children to show you which weather had the most and the least days this month.

October Calendar: For Project Day today, we made our October calendar. As you can see, we have four children turning 6 next month! Remember to put an X on each day as it goes by and have children count the days coming up to family or school events. Have fun.

My Counting Book: We are nearly finished with our first unit in Everyday Math! Unit 1 focused on number recognition, counting by 1s and sorting. The counting books were made over several days. Ask your child to go through their book with you and explain what they have made.

Fundations letter Practice: Children use dry erase boards, “skywriting” with their fingers and pencils and paper to practice proper lowercase letter formation. You can always help your child’s fine motor skills by doing fun things at home like play with play dough, work with small legos or stringing beads.

Have a great weekend.
Ms. Purdin 🙂

Share this:
Share this page via Email Share this page via Stumble Upon Share this page via Digg this Share this page via Facebook Share this page via Twitter

Busy, Busy Days!

It’s almost the end of another week together! We are continuing to work on building our classroom community. Today we revisited “bucket fillers and bucket dippers.” We also read a story about friendship called, A Rainbow of Friends. Often, we as adults say, “use your words” to our young friends. This statement doesn’t always help. Young children need us to model the language to use when navigating tough social situations. If you see your child having an issue with a sibling or friend at home, take the time to model appropriate ways of communicating to solve problems. Make it fun – children love role playing!

Our days seem to be getting busier as I challenge the children with more academics. This week we began Fundations, starting with the letter T. In Fundations, we focus on the learning how to write the correct lowercase letter formation first, and in the winter, will be reviewing correct uppercase letter formation. Ask your child to “sign” the letter T to you!

A typical schedule of our day.

Last week I introduced academic choice to the children. During academic choice, children all work on the same topic, but in different ways. Children have the choice about how they would like to work. Some topics we have down so far are name recognition, colors, sorting and patterning. Soon information will be coming to you about opportunities for parent volunteers during these times.

Next week will be another busy week! We are off to the apple farm on Wednesday (hope for sun!) and we will be starting a great Johnson School tradition – Kindergarten and 6th Grade buddies! I’m looking forward to it!

Have a great weekend!
Ms. Purdin 🙂

Share this:
Share this page via Email Share this page via Stumble Upon Share this page via Digg this Share this page via Facebook Share this page via Twitter