On Friday, October 29th, we will be celebrating Halloween with a costume parade and a party! Children are invited to BRING their costumes to school with them on Friday (please do not send costume accessories such as wands, swords, etc., as they have a tendency to get lost!) We will change into our costumes before the class party and participate in a Kindergarten Costume Parade! If you are able to sign up to send a treat in for our party, it would be greatly appreciated! Follow the link below or send me an email to let me know what you can send in. Thank you in advance for your help!
Halloween Party Sign Up
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Our Many Colored Days!
We just wrapped up our exciting and fun "Color Week!" On Monday, we had a terrific field trip to the Flynn Theater to see Harold and the Purple Crayon. The show was filled with amazing actors, funny moments, and a sense of magical adventure and all of the children were thrilled to watch the show! Thank you to the parents who chaperoned the trip. We can't wait until our next field trip!
During Color Week, we completed many activities to learn about colors. We read some great books about colors, completed a painting activity to learn about color mixing, voted for our favorite colors (red was the winner in our class!), played Color Bingo, and completed a Color Scavenger Hunt. On Friday of last week, we finally enjoyed the greatly anticipated "Rainbow Jell-O." Each day, we made Jell-O in our color of the day. By Friday, we had a rainbow in our cups and our jiggly snack was so much fun to eat! Please enjoy the photos of our special snack here:
Thank you all for helping your children dress for our Color of the Day! We had so much fun celebrating some of the beautiful colors in our world and using them to create beautiful artwork!
During Color Week, we completed many activities to learn about colors. We read some great books about colors, completed a painting activity to learn about color mixing, voted for our favorite colors (red was the winner in our class!), played Color Bingo, and completed a Color Scavenger Hunt. On Friday of last week, we finally enjoyed the greatly anticipated "Rainbow Jell-O." Each day, we made Jell-O in our color of the day. By Friday, we had a rainbow in our cups and our jiggly snack was so much fun to eat! Please enjoy the photos of our special snack here:
Thank you all for helping your children dress for our Color of the Day! We had so much fun celebrating some of the beautiful colors in our world and using them to create beautiful artwork!
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Our Busy Weeks at School
Wow! It is hard to believe that it is already almost the middle of October! We have been hard at work in our classroom learning and playing together. Your children are quite comfortable with our classroom routines and expectations and I am already amazed by the growth I am seeing, academically and socially!
Our literacy time is focused on learning what it means to be a good reader and practicing how to take care of books. We have learned many letters as a part of the Fundations program, including: t, b, f, n, m, c, a, i, and r. We practice these letters each day, learning what they are called, a special word to help us remember the letter, and the sound each letter makes. We also practice proper formation of the letter using our special lines: the "sky line," the "plane line," the "grass line," and the "worm line." Ask your child what these lines are and how to form some of the letters we have learned! Also during literacy, we are practicing recognizing and producing rhymes, as well as syllabication.
Math is a well-loved time of our day, with children often asking how long until we will begin this block! The children especially love the math workstations that we use. These workstations offer children a chance to explore with math manipulatives and practice the concepts that we have learned about with a number of games and activities. Some of current math workstations are: Pattern Blocks, Geoboard Shapes, Bucket of Bugs, Unifix Cube Patterns, Polydrons, and Which Bug Will Win?
Also during math, we have spent time making a class quilt. Our "Shoo Fly Quilt" is hanging outside our classroom if you would like to come and take a look. We used triangles to create the quilt squares and then discussed the patterns that we noticed. Please enjoy this photo of our beautiful creation!
Here are some of the observations that the children made about our quilt:
Monday 10/11: RED Day
Tuesday 10/12: ORANGE Day
Wednesday 10/13: YELLOW Day
Thursday 10/14: GREEN Day
Friday 10/15: BLUE Day
Monday 10/18: PURPLE Day
Tuesday 10/19: BROWN Day
Wednesday 10/20: BLACK Day
Our literacy time is focused on learning what it means to be a good reader and practicing how to take care of books. We have learned many letters as a part of the Fundations program, including: t, b, f, n, m, c, a, i, and r. We practice these letters each day, learning what they are called, a special word to help us remember the letter, and the sound each letter makes. We also practice proper formation of the letter using our special lines: the "sky line," the "plane line," the "grass line," and the "worm line." Ask your child what these lines are and how to form some of the letters we have learned! Also during literacy, we are practicing recognizing and producing rhymes, as well as syllabication.
Math is a well-loved time of our day, with children often asking how long until we will begin this block! The children especially love the math workstations that we use. These workstations offer children a chance to explore with math manipulatives and practice the concepts that we have learned about with a number of games and activities. Some of current math workstations are: Pattern Blocks, Geoboard Shapes, Bucket of Bugs, Unifix Cube Patterns, Polydrons, and Which Bug Will Win?
Also during math, we have spent time making a class quilt. Our "Shoo Fly Quilt" is hanging outside our classroom if you would like to come and take a look. We used triangles to create the quilt squares and then discussed the patterns that we noticed. Please enjoy this photo of our beautiful creation!
Here are some of the observations that the children made about our quilt:
“It’s in a pattern. It goes orange on the inside, green on the inside.”
~ Aidan
“It’s like stairs. Orange, orange, orange.”
“The stairs are diagonal." ~ Sam
“It’s a pattern on each row.” ~ Mario
“There’s different rows and different colors and I like the pattern a lot.”
~ Connor
“The pattern can go across and upside down. The quilt is a rectangle.”
~Thomas G.
“The orange triangles are touching in a special way.”
~ Calder
“It’s like an elevator. It goes up and down.”
~ Nolan
“I noticed if you turn your head a little, you see a square.” ~ Sophia
“We made our quilt squares with triangles. Some look like upside down triangles.” ~ Desiree
We have also spent a great deal of time sorting objects be one or more attributes. We started exploring this concept using shapes and recently moved to sorting bugs by a characteristic. Here is a photo of the poster that we created when we sorted bugs into groups of bugs with spots and bugs with no spots.
Thursday we were able to visit the Hinesburg Fire Station to celebrate Fire Safety Week. We had a wonderful time exploring the fire trucks, meeting the firefighters, and learning about how to stay safe if we are ever in a fire.
On Friday, we took a top secret trip to peek in the windows of our new classroom! The room is looking wonderful and should be ready any day now! The children were impressed to see a sink and our very own bathroom attached to the classroom! We are so excited to move into our new space and make it our own.
Monday 10/11: RED Day
Tuesday 10/12: ORANGE Day
Wednesday 10/13: YELLOW Day
Thursday 10/14: GREEN Day
Friday 10/15: BLUE Day
Monday 10/18: PURPLE Day
Tuesday 10/19: BROWN Day
Wednesday 10/20: BLACK Day
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