Success! Our first 3 days of Kindergarten.

 Hello Families!

We have had a great 3 days of Kindergarten!!!!!  

We have read the story The Kissing Hand.  We talked about how our guardians help us get to school in the morning and we will get to see them again in the afternoon.  We colored hand outlines and placed a Hershey's kiss on the hand.

We read the story Scribble Stones  and decorated our own stones to keep in the classroom. We will use these stones to have a sense of ownership in the classroom, as well as responsibility for placing these stones in a basket when we arrive to school as a part of our attendance routine. 

We made a "Code of Collaboration" for the classroom after we read the story Our Classroom is a Family.  The students did a great job making our classroom rules and drawing pictures of those rules for our "Code of Conduct" poster that we will be referring to throughout the year.  We decided we will be emphasizing being a leader for our classmates and the school.

We have spent a lot of time practicing lining up at our number spots, eating lunch, cleaning the classroom and putting things away.

We have had "monkey dance parties", played with play dough and spent time getting to know each other in our Connection Circles.

We started learning the sight word "the".  Students have noticed the word in our books and asked to learn it!  I love their sense of wonder!  Ask your child to tell you how to spell "the", where their tongue should go when saying the word, and what "th" says.

Looking ahead:

Next week I will introduce students to their Chrome Books.  The expectation is that these go home each night and are fully charged for the next day.  Chargers can stay at home.  

Important Items to Know:

1. We will have snack 2 times a day.  Please pack your child a snack that IS NOT stored in their lunch box.  If you happen to forget snack one day, I will have something for your child to eat, during that time.

2. We do have a few peanut, egg and tree nut allergies in the room.  

3. There will be no sharing of food from home.

4. I have loved spending time with ALL of your children this week!  It is going to be a great year!

As always, please reach out with any questions you may have.  

Katie Powell