Welcome to Kindergarten!

I am excited to have the opportunity to get to know so many great families over the 2010-2011 school year. Kindergarten is the foundation to your child's educational future and it is essential that he/she has a great experience to get him/her started out on the right foot. Blogging is a new experience for me, but I think I am really going to enjoy it. My goal is to update my blog once a week as it is one of many ways I strive to keep you informed of classroom happenings. Enjoy!

Homework for the week of October 8-14

  • Monday- K skills
  • Tuesday- Drops in the Bucket #4
  • Wednesday- Cc
  • Thursday- Homework Due
  • ***Don't forget to read to your child 20 minutes a day!

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Leprechauns on the Loose!

Our classroom quilt for the carnival is finished. Here is a close-up picture. Each child has a handprint with their name that has been turned into a sea creature. The kids were really excited when I pulled it out today and showed it to them. This twin-sized quilt will be at the silent auction at the Parkside Library on carnival night. It would be great if a child from our room was able to take it home!

Our class basket for the carnival is "Garden". So far we have a few packages of seeds, a nozzle, and a kneeling pad. Volunteers will be putting together baskets Tuesday night. If you have a chance this weekend, please support our garden basket by purchasing garden supplies and sending them in with your child on Monday or Tuesday. There is a volunteer form coming home with your child in tomorrows homework folder. Please return A.S.A.P. if you would like to help set up, clean up, run a booth, or help put baskets together for the carnival. All help will be greatly appreciated. Money from the carnival goes to the Parkside PTA and in turn gets returned to our school:)

The Leprechauns are back to their old tricks in our room. Every year around St. Patrick's Day the Leprechauns sneak into kindergarten classrooms at night and play tricks on the kids. Sometimes they make messes by finding green things in the room and scattering them (crayons, unifix cubes, etc.) and other times they leave little surprises for the kids. The kids really enjoy coming into the classroom in the morning to see if the Leprechauns visited while they were away.

We have been reading decodable books during our reading time in the mornings. Decodable books have sight words and words the kids can sound out. I have the children highlight any words they know how to read by themselves. I try to call 1/3 to 1/2 of the kids each day we work on a decodable book so they can read the books to me. If your child has a sticker on any of their books, they earned it by reading to me that day. The decodable books that we work on throughout the week are sent home on Friday's with the other work they have completed for the week.

Conferences are just over a week away. I look forward to talking to you soon and sharing your child's progress!
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