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
