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 🙂
