Mrs. Silvey's Kindergarten Class

What a great start to our Kindergarten school year! We are making new friends, learning new things, and practicing school rules and procedures. We are quickly learning each other’s names and are playing many games to help us remember and get to know each other!

As we are learning more and more about each other, we have been talking about our families, our favorite things to do, our summer vacations, etc. This has provided us with a framework to connect home to school, use language skills, generate vocabulary, and practice good listening skills. At the same time, we are learning about our likenesses and differences. Encourage your child to tell you about one new friend in our class that they have met and learned about.

We read LOTS of books together this week! We read the book How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? and completed a sorting activity. We looked at good choices and poor good choices from the book and sorted them accordingly. We also read David Goes to School and wrote about good choices we can make at school.

We read Be Kind and brainstormed ways that we can be kind at school. We completed a Kindergarten coloring page. Our purpose was to work on snapping the caps on our markers, putting our materials away, and working neatly like big Kindergarteners do!

Finally, we read the book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and made a fun pigeon craft! These will come home soon and are hanging proudly in our hallway. :)

We made a "How We Go Home" graph and talked about which had the most, the least, and compared the numbers of kids on each.

We had our first handwriting lesson! This week, we focused on using a correct tripod pencil grip. You will see a "use your imagination" drawing page where we practiced our grip. Please refer to the note in your child’s folder to help reinforce how to hold a pencil/marker/crayon properly. Your help is greatly appreciated.

We read A Wrinkled Heart and talked about being good friends. Ask your child to tell you what happens when our heart gets wrinkled.

We learned about the Zones of Regulation, where we learned about self-regulation and emotional control. We talked about strategies and tools to help us move between the zones and get back to a happy, learning zone. Ask your child to tell you about the colors on each cup (zones) and what they mean and how they decide which zone they are in.

We read "Decibela and her 6 inch Voice,"talked about voice volume and made class rules together for our classroom.

We explored manipulatives during Math Workshop including pattern blocks, connecting cubes, geo-boards, bears, and squares. We will begin our Math Curriculum (Math in Focus) next week! More info to come!

We had a great time getting to know each other on the Kindergarten playground and during Choice Time. Ask your child to tell you who his/her new friends are!

You might have noticed that your child hasn’t brought home much “work” (besides a handful of worksheets that we are completing as busy work while learning routines such as snapping caps on markers, writing our name, coloring in the lines, pencil grip, etc.). This is because our main focus this week has been rules and routines, but we are excited to jump into the curriculum and are doing so little by little! More to come next week!

Ask your child to tell you what they learned in STEAM class, Art, Spanish, Library, and Music this week!

Please look for Scholastic flyers in your child’s folder monthly or go online to shop for books! Visit www.scholastic.com/readingclub and enter our class code FMRFL to purchase books. Thank you!

Reminders:

-Please check and empty your child’s folder each night and return your child’s folder daily.

-Please send a snack with your child everyday.

-Don’t forget to send in a framed 4x6 or 5x7 picture of your family.

-IF THERE IS A CHANGE IN YOUR CHILD'S DISMISSAL, PLEASE MESSAGE ME IN ADDITION TO CALLING THE OFFICE.

-Don't forget to get your volunteer steps completed ASAP!

Looking ahead...

No school- September 7th

Hearing screenings September 11th

Reed Spirit Night September 22nd

We read, "The King of Kindergarten," and made our own king and queen crowns

Playground fun to get our wiggles out

We read a book called, "The Recess Queen," and then did a fun activity where we sang, I like (insert favorite food) I like tea, I want (insert friend's name) to jump with me. It was fun to see how much they are learning each others names! Our circle grew so big! So many friends already!