Week 2, 2017

Dear Parents,

We have completed our first full week of school! The children are transitioning well to the morning routine and we have focused on learning each others names and classroom procedures and guidelines. There is a lot to cover this week so please bare with me!

1. Curriculum night is Wednesday August 30th starting at 6. There will be three sessions running from 6:00-6:40, 6:40-7:20 and 7:20-8:00. Mrs. Robinson and I are asking that if at all possible you attend the first 2 sessions so we may attend our own children's classroom meeting the third session. Admin will be available during each session to answer specific CSD curriculum questions. Please plan to arrange for childcare for your child during this time. 
2. School pictures are being taken next Wednesday. 
3. Please read Leslie's email regarding homework. We will be sending home books each night that you can read to your child. These are to be returned the next day. You do not need to record these in a reading log. 
4. Thank you for labeling snack separately. Please encourage your child to open containers and baggies at home, to clean up after themselves and put items away. We have started doing all of these self help skills in kindergarten and it is so helpful when it is reinforced at home. 
5. During curriculum night we will go over schedule, field trips and volunteers in the classroom. 
6. Your child started specials this week. Music with Mrs. Shutt, Art with Mrs. Tiasia, PE with Ms. Nancy and Spanish with Ms. Ruby!  

Readers Workshop:

This week has mainly been about routine and procedure but we have had fun learning nursery rhymes. We have recited them in different voices (a class favorite), made books and made rhyming words from the stories. We made a cracked Humpty Dumpty and discussed how we would put Humpty back together again. We have been matching upper and lower case letters, digging for eggs in the sensory table to find the correct upper and lower case match. We have built walls for Humpty to fall from.  We have been sequencing the stories as well as reading different versions of the classic nursery rhyme. The children have also participated in partner reading.

Writers workshop:
I introduced them to their handwriting book. We worked on letter F with pencils, play-dough and chalk. The children also drew pictures that started with letter F.

Science:

This week, we predicted what would happen if Humpty fell from the wall to the ground using an egg and a hard boiled egg.

Math centers:
Our main focus this week was exploring math manipulatives. The children also used 1:1 correspondence when matching numbers to groups up to 12.

Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Hazlett