1 Week Down!

We had such a great first week!  Here is a smilebox to share with you some of the things we did.  Click on the pictures to enlarge them!

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Literacy

• read Mrs. Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten and made a class book of the things we did to get ready for kindergarten. 
• read Chrysanthemum and talked about how many letters are in our name.
• read The Kissing Hand a re sequenced the story.  
• read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and talked about the right way to hold a book, where to start reading and how we read from left to right.  We made a class book of who was in our class, our own chicka chicka boom boom trees and rainbow wrote our names.
• read David Goes to School and we came up with our own class rules.
• read Molly Lou Mellon and made a circle map of what made us special.  Then we made a class book of why we were special.

Poem: Jack Be Nimble

Centers:

• Alphabet arcs
• shadow ABC mats
• ABC matching mats
• playdoh
• ABC puzzles

Math

We talked about what attendance was and all the different was we can take attendance.  We made an attendance stick that we can use to see who is here every day because each cube represents a student.  We also talked about how there are special days on the calendar and we tried to guess what some special days were based on their picture.  We talked about what Math Workshop should look like and sound like and how we treat our math tools.  We got to explore them everyday to get familiar with what we can use to help us with math.

Science

We learned about recycling and what it means to reuse and reduce.  We also cut and pasted our science vocabulary in our science journals.

A few reminders:

• please send 1 snack at snack time and only send water to drink, NO fruit juices
• sign red folders DAILY

We also celebrated Parc's birthday of Friday!