We are ready to learn!!!

Hello everyone!! I am so excited to share a video with you about our first week of school, but I need to get a few more census forms back.

Well……we really DID survive the first week of school. There weren’t to many “ I am so hungry” or “When can we go home?” comments!! The week was spent learning a lot of Meadow Lanes routines and procedures. We DID have so much fun and already started learning how to become better readers, writers, and mathematicians!!! We have a busy week coming up and we EVEN get to stay in school an hour longer so we can get so smart!!

In literacy we are going to continue learning about letters in the alphabet! We will learn about the letters E, F, G, H, & I!!! We always practice finger writing the letters and then listen to a fun song about each letter. They really are silly songs, but I have learned that we LOVE to sing AND dance!!!

We will also continue to learn about the sight word “I” and will even learn ANOTHER new word, “can”. We have been practicing using the words in sentences. We then can point and read the sentence to our friends! We really are so smart!! An example sentence would be “I can jump.”

Of course, we are always reading stories and making connections in the stories. This week will be rereading “Animals in the Park” and we will also read “The Ugly Duckling” and “ The Three Sisters.” As we read we love to look for letters of the alphabet and look for capital letters and punctuation marks!!

We are really going to start becoming authors this week!! We will start the week off by oral storytelling. Each kid gets to sit in the rocking chair and then share a story from his or her life. We practice using a lot of detail and I LOVE hearing all of the wonderful stories!! We will also be discussing the rules and procedures of writer’s workshop. We practice how to sit, how to write, and how to put our things away. We even get to make a fun chart using our pictures to show the writing expectations!! We are also going to get our writer’s workshop folders! We will store our writing in them AND be able to use some of the charts to help us spell better! I have learned that we LOVE to talk in our classroom so I know they will love getting introduced to talking buddies. They will have a buddy that they are paired up with. This is the friend they will practice orally telling their stories to before they write. I just know they are going to LOVE this! On Friday each child will get to show me how good of writer’s they already are! Please be assured this usually consists of a beautiful picture, but very few words or letters.

Who doesn’t love math?? I know I do and I LOVE to watch kids explore numbers!! This week they will be introduced to our math mats. These are mats that we use to show a number and display objects of that many number. We learn to talk about our display with our class and listen to our friends as they share WONDERFUL ideas!! This is really a work in progress so we will spend a lot of time watching Mrs. Schroeder and doing it along with her! Last week we read Anno’s Counting Book. This week each child gets their own counting book! We will be drawing scenes of numbers in our books and discussing them with our class! I can’t wait to see all of the colorful drawings!!

We will continue to go to specials and we all love that. Here is the schedule for this week:

Monday: Art

Tuesday: Computer

Wednesday: Music

Thursday: P.E. (please send your kids to school wearing their tennis shoes if you can... it is really hard to get everyone changed before class and it takes up a lot of our learning time.)

Friday: Art & we will go to the library for the very first time!!!

In unit studies we will be learning about safety! This week we will talk about stranger safety, fire safety, and our important emergency information. I will be sending a note home in Wednesday folders about this. On this note I want you to write the primary address and phone number you want your kindergarten child to learn in case of an emergency.The kids are going to be making their very own safety book so they can stay SUPER safe!!

On Wednesday I will be sending home a conference reminder note and some forms to fill out for conferences. I know we JUST started school, but with baby Schroeder coming our conferences are quickly approaching. I will also be sending home our first book order. You can order online, using our class code or send a check to school with your order form. There will be an attached note with more information. These will be due back by Friday, September 12^th.

WOW, that is a lot of information!!!! I hope you all had an enjoyable weekend and your kindergarten kid is ready to start their first FULL week of school. As always, if you have any questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to call or e-mail me!!

Thanks for all you do!

Mrs. Schroeder