Kindergarten
Kindergarten News-October 29, 2010
Dear Parents,
We had a great celebration today! Thanks to those of you who donated items for the party!!
H-A-double L-O-W-double E-N spells Halloween! Ask your child about this song and how to spell that really long word. We had a lot of fun this week with various Halloween activities. We finger painted with red and yellow paint to make orange pumpkins, and each child then turned his/her pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern (just like that!...like the poem says on the back). Some of the stories shared included Dragon’s Halloween, H is for Haunted House, The Halloween Treat and a flannel board story of The Humbug Witch. Along with all of our Halloween activities, we enjoyed Hat Day, also, in honor of letter “Hh”.
For the letters “c” and “k”, we made our own My Cookie Shape Book and read the big book, Cookie’s Week. A highlight of the week was making our own class version of Who Took the Cookie From the Cookie Jar? Of course, we had cookies one day for snack and each child “took a cookie from our cookie jar”!! We, also, looked at two vowels, “Ii” and “Oo”. For “Ii” we had Initial Day. Each child was called by his/her initials all day. We even decorated our initials with items from our creative art box. Our “Oo” activity was learning about opposites. We acted out various opposites, such as up, down and sit, stand, etc., sang about opposites and made a new book for your child’s “bag of books” called Opposites. (It has a lot of words in it, but the children can “sing” it well.) New “popcorn” words include, “I”, “is”, “in”, “it”, “on”, “off”, “have” and “happy”.
In math, we have just begun our unit on patterning.
Next week…On Tuesday the children will be voting, just like you! We vote for something very important to us… our snack for the day! Also, next week we will focus on “Pp” with lots of pumpkin activities and the letter “Gg”.
F.Y.I…I will be out of the classroom on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Monday I will be making a college visit with my senior daughter and Tuesday and Wednesday are Conference Days. I will meet you parents at your requested time, while Miss Simowitz (or as the children call her Miss Jenny) will be with the children. She recently graduated with a degree in early childhood education and has been in our classroom numerous times this year. The children are in great hands! The children do have school all week!! We will be back to normal on Thursday and Friday.
I hope you have a fun and festive weekend! Happy candy sorting!! Thanks, Mrs. Holtgrefe
