Week 3 Update

Hello Parents and Families,

We were very busy this week. We have started our curriculum in every subject so the children have been working hard. We are still working on some routines, like packing up at the end of the day but the children love the extra responsibility of checking their mailboxes and packing up their book bags.

I am happy to report that we reached 100% attendance three times this week. This is great! We celebrated with some class pictures. These are our first pictures of the whole class. (Two students were missing from our first day of school picture I had posted.) Check them out!

And, now, silly faces!

In Language Arts, we are continuing reviewing letters of the alphabet. In addition, we are working on adding sight words to our vocabulary. Sight words are short words that children can read just by looking at them, and not having to sound them out. This week, we worked on “I” and “like”!

In Math, we have been working on sorting by color, shape and size. This is a fun unit for them because we get to use a lot of math games to learn. In one game, children worked with their tablemates to sort colored macaroni. They had to race to get it done before the other tables without dropping any on the floor!

In Science, we have been comparing animals. What animals have 4 legs? What animals have 2 legs? Which animals have fur? Which animals have scales? How do different animals move? Like math, we are also sorting- but by like attributes of animals. 

 In Social Studies, we are discussing the importance of rules. What is a rule and why do we have them? It was a good opportunity to review the rules of the classroom, hallways and garden.

It is amazing how quickly September has passed! I hope to start our blog with our pen pals soon. They are a kindergarten class in the Bronx, New York City. There are 35 children in the class (wow!) so each child will have two (or three!) pen pals paired up with them. I will keep everyone posted!

I hope everyone has had a great week. I hope to see everyone at our Open House on Sunday!

-Ms.Victoria