Weekly Preview- Oct. 1-5

This week we will finish learning about our 5 senses.  We will then begin to learn about Fire Safety.  October is the month of fire safety.  One thing we will discuss is having a safe meeting place for our families if our house is on fire.  Please discuss with your child a place where you all could meet in the event of a fire.  We will begin to learn about measuring in math.  In Kindergarten, we use non-standard forms of measurement.  We will use lots of different "tools" to measure with this week and learn the words shorter and longer.  

We will begin the formal teaching of the letter R r and will continue to review the letter s.  We will begin PALS testing Monday morning and continue throughout the next 2 weeks.  Please have your child well rested and have a good breakfast each morning before coming to school.  We will start to develop our own ideas for writing and use one of the basic model sentences we have practiced so far this year.  My goal is for the students to draw a picture about what they would like to write about and then put what they drew about into words!  We have already been taught all the sight words for this nine weeks and continue to review them daily.

I       am            can             my            see          a         

On Monday's, we have a practicum student from UMW visiting for the day.  She will be with us through December.  She will teach a lesson but she is mainly with us to learn through observations and helping with the class.  

A few reminders coming up:

1.  It is getting chilly inside and out.  Please send in a coat or sweatshirt for your child.
2.  PALS testing begins on Monday, October 1, and continues for 2 weeks.  ( I will start to send home conference slips as that comes to an end...some of you are already scheduled!)
3.  Homework for the entire month will be in your child's folder, please only complete one week at a time.
4.  NO SCHOOL on Monday, October 8, Columbus Day.
5.  This Thursday we have our Author visit sponsored by the PTA, Many Thanks!!!

Eyes, Ears, Nose and Mouth

Eyes, Ears, Nose and Mouth

  We became scientist this week and explored our sense of hearing, tasting, and smelling.  We learned a new song to help us remember our 5 senses.  We will test our sense of touch on Monday.  Can you guess what sense we are using in these pictures?!?!

What a busy but fun week of learning in Kindergarten!  

the Letter S s

Letter S…..

This week we met our friend Sammy Seal.  He will sail to see in very sunny weather and when summer is the season.  He also salutes a seagull as they sail together!  Check out what we did to help us learn more about the letter S!

Math Exploration

We are working hard at learning new Kindergarten math tubs.  These pictures show you some games we have been playing in school and practicing daily.  Ask your child about the pictures and games we are playing in math.

Number Memory

Sorting by Attributes and Patterns

Making Patterns and Counting

Hop on Top, More or Less

Writing Numbers

Star Helper of the Week

Star student helper

This week's star student helper is Ryan.  Ryan loves to play Legos.  He loves Chicken french fries and can eat them all day long!  His favorite color is red and he LOVES school!  Have a great week RYAN!

Weekly Preview Sept. 24

This week we will continue to review our COW poem in preparation for PALS testing which will begin next week.  We will formally learn the letter "S s" this week.  We will learn about the letter, it's sound and how to form it in our daily writing.  We will read Mrs. Wishy Washy to complete the county assessment for retelling this week.  We will continue to review our sight words to date.  Our journal sentences this week will be My ______ is ________.  We will brainstorm a list of nouns and adjectives to help with our writing.  

SIGHT WORDS to DATE:

My
Can
See
I
A 
Am

We will learn how to compare a group of objects by counting them and use the words more, less or the same.  We will also learn one more and one less in math.  We will do lots of experiments using our 5 senses!  We will listen, taste, smell and touch our way to learning about our senses.   

Please continue to complete homework each night.  
Please send in a light sweatshirt or coat with your child as it starts to cool off.
Please remember to send in a snack with your child daily.

Have a Great Week!
Mrs. Beltz

Apples!

Apples, Apples,

   We love APPLES!

We have learned a lot about apples this week.  We started with brainstorming a list of things we already knew about apples and added them to our apple tree.

We measured how many apples tall we were!  Can you guess how many apples tall your child was?

We made apple patterns, read “10 Apples Up On Top”, made our half eaten apples, and finished the week by doing a taste test.  We tasted apple juice, applesauce and plain apples.  Check out our graph to see what we liked the BEST! 

Thank you to everyone who sent in items for the taste testing!  We had a blast!