We started our time off together with a self portrait drawing lesson. The students did a wonderful job drawing and attempting to make their self portrait look realistic. We then transitioned to calendar, where the kiddos worked on counting, days of the week, months of the year, place value, and number identification. After calendar, we did our Daily News and read a book called, Peter's Chair. We all shared our opinion on whether or not we liked the book and why. Tomorrow we will do an opinion writing piece about the book and why we did/did not like the book. We then read a poem called, We Munch The Lunch and found all our sight words. Kiddos took turns coming up and circling the different sight words they saw in the poem. We did go out to recess (even though it was a bit rainy) and the kiddos had a blast. Thanks for sending your kiddos with coats! We sure used them today! :) After recess, we did a math lesson all about the number ten. We found two different hidden partners in ten (one and nine, five and five) and practiced writing the number ten. After math, the kiddos and I talked about rhyming and sang a lullaby (The Mocking Bird). We found all the rhyming words and then came up with a few of our own.
Reminders:
1. Homework folders came home today (10/19). Please note that our building policy is to only give between 5-8 minutes of homework per day in kindergarten (that includes writing their sentence, three math problems, and reading their take home book). If you would like to give your child extra work, that's up to you. If you have questions regarding your child's homework and/or our homework policy, please email me.
2. Take Home Books came home today!
3. Donuts with Dad is October 22nd from 8-9am. Dads DO need to stay with students until 9am. There is not an early drop off.
4. Just a reminder that the PTO and school calendars are linked on the side of the blog. All upcoming events are posted there and it is a great resource.
5. Bring in any gently used costumes for our PV service project. Click HERE to read all about it
6. There was a lot of Halloween talk today! Just a reminder that if you'd like to help out with our party, please email me. Also, kinders wear their costumes to school. Costumes should NOT be scary (no blood, guts, etc.) and NOT include any sort of weapons. If you have specific questions about your child's costume, please feel free to email me.
7. We will have a Veteran's Day Assembly on November 10. I'll post the information once I have it. Please note, there are two assemblies (one in the am and one in the pm). You are more than welcome to come and please feel free to invite grandparents, as well!
Have a great night!
~Love,
Mrs. Wittwer
