Four day weeks are harder then regular ones. You still have the same amount to do but less time to do it in. Yikes!
I have to tell you again how much I love being your students' teacher. It is such a great honor and they are wonderful people to get to know. As I tell them often they are great kids!
Here is a review of our wonderful week in kindergarten
Centers:
Listening Center:
The story was The Three Little Pigs by James Marshall. The kids drew a picture of their favorite part using five different colors. A teacher wrote the words and the kids practiced tracing over them. We read other versions of the story through out the week.
Orange Table:
The kids worked with Mrs. Bondanza to practice writing a T sentence: "Tilly Turtle came to tea." in their sentence writing book. This is a place to practice handwriting and for a teacher to help direct the proper grip and writing direction. The kids worked on Ii, Ll, and Tt practice before getting a quiet activity.
Yellow Table:
This was a parent directed table where the kids did a directed drawing portrait of themselves and made a pattern picture frame. This will be laminated and hung in the classroom to put the kids work on. After the kids were done the worked on a rectangle page before doing a quiet activity.
Green Table:
This table was the high light of the week for both kids and adults alike! The kids worked on primary colors. First they dripped red, yellow and blue food color into karo syrup and they mixed it together. They talked about the colors that were being made as the syrup mixed together. Once they through it away they got white frosting with two colors of their choice. They mixed it up and frosted a graham cracker with their "new color" on it. It was a very tasty way to learn about the colors! You should have found the worksheets to go with this center in their backpacks!
Handwriting:
Our letter of the week was Tt. We make the capital T by going down for the stem first and over from the left for the top. For a lower case t they start just below the sky line and make the line down to the grass. Then just about the dot dot line they make a line or they cross their t.
The kids did Tt practice on the white boards, a Tt practice page, a Tt alphabet book with Tt words and pictures, a Tt sentence, a directed drawing using the letter Tt, and they will do a cut and paste picture on Friday. The letter of the week next week will be Cc.
Science:
The kids started their science journal this week where the kids drew a picture of a tree. Tomorrow they will be drawing a picture of a tree that gives us food. We had a great teachable moment when we visited the garden earlier this week and found an apple. The kids were able to each eat a piece of it! Yum!
Math:
Practicing numbers can be hard work but your students are working hard! We worked on four and five this week in class.
Movement: Today in movement the kids played with the parachute.
If you are signed up for centers and your child is sick please let me know that you're not coming. I would appreciate it if you would find your own substitute but I understand that is not always possible. Don't leave a voice mail! Call the office and speak to someone directly.
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