Jr. Kindergarten News

Sorry for the lateness of this post.  I had an out of town family event to attend this weekend.

We had another busy week of learning.  We finished up our All About Me and our Five Senses units in Social Studies and Science.  The children made books for both of these lessons that will be coming home next week.

Since Friday was the first day of Fall we will begin our Fall unit next week.  First the students will learn about Johnny Appleseed.  Monday is his birthday and we will be doing a lot of fun activities around the apple.  We also have two birthdays this coming week.

Aside from celebrating birthdays we began a new lesson in Language and have a new sight word to learn.  We now have three words, I, like and the, that we will be reviewing.  You should have received your child first book that has words in it.  This is a decodable book and you will start seeing both a Pre-decodable (pictures only) and a decodable book (with words) come home each week.  The decodable books have our new sight words in them.  The words are introduce in an order in which the student can begin making sentences with them.  We are also still working on our sight word flash cards.  I am hoping that these will be finished by the end of the week.  I will then put them together and send them home for you to use to help your child review.

October is a busy month and I have many activities planned for the students.  We also have several celebrations that we will observe as a school.  You should have received a print out of all the celebrations for the rest of the year.  If you have any questions about any of these please feel free to ask.

Have a great week!
Mrs. Keever

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Jr. Kindergarten News

Wow!  We had a really busy week.  It started out with a birthday celebration on Monday.  Happy birthday Ailish.

       

 

On Wednesday Kitty Jones from the Temple Fire Department came to school and taught us some safe ways and places to walk.  Always walk on a sidewalk and cross streets only at the corner using the crosswalk.  If you have to walk at night you should wear light colored clothing and reflective vests or strips and carry a flashlight.

On Thursday the students used their five senses to explore the garden during a Science lesson.  We used our tongue to taste our snack before going outside and....

Friday brought a bright change of pace when three of the girls spent almost the whole recess on the swings singing a song.  Listen carefully to hear them sing, "Aaahhh, aaahhh, sing a happy song".   They repeat these phrase over and over while they swing.  They were sooooo cute I just had to share.

We began a new lesson in reading and have a new sight word.  I and like are the words were are learning.  While you are reading with your child let him/her read along and see if they can pick out these words.  We are working on creating flash cards that will include all the sight words for the year as well as some other ones like the color words.  When these are finished they will be sent home so that you can help your child review them.

Mrs. Keever

Jr. Kindergarten News

Despite our short week our days were full of learning and fun.  We celebrated with Teddy as he told us about his first trip of the year, we celebrated our 10th day of school and had a special visit from Zero the Hero.  He sent his puppet and a special Zero Treat to help us learn the importance of the number zero.

We also began our first unit in language, "Friendly Faces" and started making a book about ourselves, All About Me.  Our sight word for the week was "I".  Next week we will be introduced to the word "like".  We will be making flash cards of our sight words (plus a few more that I feel they need to be familiar with)  to take home so that we can practice our new words each week.  You can help your child learn them by reviewing them each night.  This should not be to time consuming if you practice just a couple of words everyday.


Next week we will be welcoming a new student into our class as well as celebrating a birthday and will have our first visit from Kitty Jones - our Safety officer.  She is a member of the Temple Fire Department and will teach the students once a month about different ways to stay safe.  


I am looking forward to another great week.


Mrs. Keever

Jr. Kindergarten News

Hello Everyone.

     We made it though the first full week of school!!  Hurray!!  We had a lot of fun reading about Chester Raccoon, by Audrey Penn.  The Kissing Hand, A Pocket Full of Kisses, Chester Raccoon and the Big Bad Bully and Chester Raccoon and the Acorn Full of Memories are just a few of her books.  Feel free to reread any or all of these books with your child.  They can tell which one they like the most and share what they liked about it.

     In math we have been working on our numbers, how to hold a pencil, counting and creating graphs.  In Language we have been learning our Alphabet Chant (some of you have mentioned that your child is singing around the house), name recognition, printing our names, rhyming words and syllables.  Our handwriting lessons are teaching how to sit properly, paper and pencil position and correctly forming each letter and number.  The children have learned how to draw a vertical line and a horizontal line.  These are the beginning strokes in printing.  Please continue to work with your child on his/her handwriting.

 

     Don't forget that this is a three day weekend and that next week we do not have school on Monday.  We have two more lessons in our Welcome to Kindergarten reading program.  Starting on Thursday the students will begin learning sight words, and start reading pre-decodable books that will come home for them to keep and practice.  It is a good idea to put these in a place where they can find them but will also be safe.  Pre-decodable books do not have words in them but the children should be able to tell a story by looking at the pictures.  We will practice this is class prior to the books coming home.  We will also be reading out of the leveled readers and these might also come home.  These are full color books that MUST be returned to school upon completion.  There is only one copy of each book and it is very important that each student have a turn with these books.

 

     I have several moms that have indicated interest in being our room parent this year.    Christina Marshall, Kelly Parmer, Cindy Scott, and Heidi Belson (once her schedule at work changes). Please feel free to contact these ladies if you have any questions about school or classroom activities. I feel very blessed to have so many parents interested in what we do here at school.  I do know that Mrs. Marshall and Mrs. Scott have also volunteered for another child's classroom so having several moms will help ease the load.  Barbara Johnson said that she might be available to do some volunteer work in the classroom from time to time.  I do have some art projects that I would like to do and would love to have several parents come in for an hour or so on these days and help the children paint, glue, cut out, etc.  I will send out more details later about specific times and dates.   If at that time there is anyone who could help they can let me know via email. 

 

     I will email a September calendar to you.  I have not found away to attach a document to this blog.

 

Thank you to all,

Mrs. Keever