Dear River Families,
Welcome to Kindergarten! We had a great first week in River as the children are beginning to get to know the rules, routines and adventures of Kindergarten. This week Literacy centers included building names of classmates using magnetic letters, finding their own names in a word search, making a book of the rules of the classroom and drawing a family picture in their journals. The children spent most of the week getting to know the schedule, materials in the classroom and expectations. We read, “The Elves and the Shoemaker”, in our Jr. Great books and worked on drawing our own creative shoes! The children dramatized a scene from the story acting as elves sneaking into the work room to make shoes in small groups and presented to the rest of the class. In Math this week, the children were introduced to a timeline calendar, we started counting the days of school and participated in voting (yes or no) for the daily question! The daily question can be anything from, “are you wearing red?”, “do the following two words rhyme?”, or “do you like pizza?”. The child learned many new songs we use every day for transitions into different sections of the day (ex. a fun counting song for math). We did math stations this week where groups of 5 worked on a “grab and count”, in which they reach with eyes closed into a bucket and count how many they pull out, making shapes using rubber band boards and creating patterns using counting bears.
One of my personal favorite things about Kindergarten is Peace Lessons with Ms. Charlotte. This is a unique and special experience for the children. These are lessons designed to teach love, kindness, compassion and tolerance. The lessons reinforce how special they are and give them greater understanding of how their bodies, minds and emotions can be managed so that their “love light” can shine through all that they do! On Monday the children learned how to make silence, a self-awareness and breathing exercise. On Friday we discussed what makes a person peaceful, how people are different on the outside but have the same needs on the inside. The children then created their own peaceful person that we will display in our classroom. We had a lesson in Health and Nutrition on manners, practiced numbers in Spanish, began to read Music (whole notes, half notes) and played a stoplight game in Physical Education!
Please be sure to sign in and out in the classroom notebook outside the door and make sure your child has extra clothes in their bin in the bathroom! In your child’s backpack they will have school work and any extra artwork they completed from the week in their folder. Please empty and return backpacks on Monday. In a few weeks I will start sending books home on the weekends as well. Please feel free to email me at kindergarten@treehouselearning.com for anything!
Have a great weekend,
Ms. Stephanie and Ms. Kira
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