We are beginning to learn our letters!
Today we learned the letter Aa.
We practiced writing the uppercase and lowercase A.
Then we drew 5 pictures of things that begin with A.
Ask your child what sound the letter A makes!

Makin' Applesauce!

On Friday, we made applesauce with all the delicious apples that were sent in! We had so much fun cutting the apples into small pieces! Then we mixed everything in the blender. The applesauce was so yummy! Thank you for the apples!!!

 

Enjoying the our applesauce!!

 



 

 

Learning Our Letters

We have been learning about our letters with long sticks and short sticks. An example of a letter with long sticks is the uppercase T (long stick down, long stick across). An example of a letter with short sticks is a lowercase v (short stick slanted, short stick slanted.

Next week we will be learning about our letters with circles and curves. “O” would be a letter with circles and “u” is a letter with curves.

Bus Safety

We have been learning about bus safety this week. This morning we had bus evacuation. Everyone did a great job! Ask your child if they remember the bus rules.... How far should we stay away from the bus (10 feet)? How should we talk on the bus (quiet)? Who is the boss on the bus (bus driver)?

Today we came up with our classroom rules. First we brainstormed as many rules as we could. Then we combined ones that were similar. Here are the rules we came up with!

1.     Keep your whole body to yourself.

2.     Be nice to your friends.  

3.       Raise your hand to talk.

4.      Listen to all your teachers.

5.      Share the toys and school supplies.

6.       Be a Bucket Filler!

 

Pizza Pete Fundraiser

 

Fundraiser packets went home this week. Please read through the packet to get more details about the fundraiser. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

This fundraiser helps our PTO pay for field trips, books for our classrooms, recess supplies, etc.

Our first week

We have a very successful first week of Kindergarten!! Some things we learned were:

• Everyone's names
• How to quickly and quietly line up
• Our school's umbrella rule
• Be safe
• Be friendly
• Playground rules
• How to get ready for whole group instruction
• Our quiet signal ("Give me 5")
• Bathroom signal and procedures of going to the bathroom (lock the door, flush, wash hands, use 2 paper towels)
• How to punch our lunch numbers in
• What makes a good listener
• Eyes on the speaker
• Sit criss cross applesauce with hands in your lap
• Voice is quiet
• Ears listening
• Raise your hand if you have something to say

We talked about our hopes and dreams for this school year. Students drew a picture of what they hoped to achieve this year. I helped them write out what their hope or dream was and we posted our clouds in the hall.

It was a great first week and it will be a wonderful year!