Another FUN week is coming!!!!

I can hardly believe that it is already September!! The start of the school year has really flown by quickly!!! I am sure it is because we are SO busy in kindergarten!! We will continue to get even busier, if that is possible!!!

In literacy this week we will finish up with learning about the alphabet!! We will be learning about W-Z!!  That is SUPER exciting!! Although, the next week we will start focusing in on one letter a week!! I know the kids are going to be sad once we have made it through all of our silly songs, but I think we will still find time to listen to them. I hope on Friday we can review the alphabet and have a little celebration!!! We will continue to talk about all of the fun things kindergarteners can do. We have already been talking about things they can do now that they couldn’t do as a baby!! They think it is pretty crazy they can do all the things they are able to do these days! We continue to review the words ‘I’ & ‘can.’ We have even been reading them in books…YES I said they are reading them. It is pretty amazing to hear these kids already readingJ We have also been reading a lot of nursery rhymes…the kids really enjoy these!!

In writing we continue to become amazing authors!! We now have our writing folders and have been practicing writing ‘I can’ sentences!! This week we will really focus on trying our best as writers and how to draw objects that may seem tricky. We will even focus on how to draw people (and not the stick kindJ)!!!

We will continue to discuss Anno’s Counting Book in math! We will also be doing our counting mats and graphing with numbers 1-10!! We have also been working hard on writing numbers and will really focus on writing the number 3 this week! Please remember to practice with your children and also remember that sometimes they write number backwards…but we will work on that!! We have also been talking about things that are alike and different!! I love hearing the kids talk about math and seeing them reason about numbers!! They are just SO smart!!

In unit studies we start a new unit!! We will start to talk about American Symbols!! The five symbols we focus on are the Bald Eagle, Statue of Liberty, American Flag, White House, and Liberty Bell. We will be reading stories, looking at pictures, and making pages for our very own American Symbol book!! This is a really fun unit!

I have some reminders to give to you as well!! Please remember that we have literacy night this Thursday (September 4^th) from 6-7 in our classroom!! This is a very important night and we will talk about things you can do to help your child at home!! If you did not send back your RSVP please know that you can still do this! If you can’t make arrangements for other children it will be okay to bring them, but they won’t be allowed to play with things in the classroom.

Also, our parent teacher conferences are on September 9^th and 11^th in our classroom. If you forgot the time you are signed up for please e-mail me at cberner@lps.org. My long-term substitute will be attending so this will be a great opportunity to meet and get to know her!! The kids have made some super cute things to give to you at conferences!!

Well….I think that is all for now!!! I hope you have a great week!!!