Mrs. O's Kindergarten and Family Blog

Sunday, September 24, 2023

2023 Week 3 Pete the Cat!

Pete the Cat brings such joy to our Kindergarten class!

If anyone uses BLOGGER you know the struggle of pulling photos from Google. Sooo we'll just post these out of order and I'll give a brief narrative!

Thanks!

So we will start here, on a Wednesday with CENTERS!

Our first station was practicing our NAMES using ONE UPPERCASE and the rest lowercase. Please reinforce this at home whenever your kiddo prints their name.

Station 2 was shape sorting!

K Kids should know these shapes:

circle*square*rectangle*oval*triangle*diamond(rhombus)*hexagon

Station 3: Painting the ABCs

Station 4:Playdough and button sculptures!

And Station 5 is ABC Building with Buttons!

Oh how fun on Letter Gg day!

We had GLOWSTICKS and GUM!

What fun!

On Tuesday we created these adorable PETE THE CATS!

Our ABC Book is coming along with

Ee for Egg...

Ff for fish...

and Gg for Gold Glitter Gg!

(It'll be awhile before those sparkles are all cleaned up!)

😆

On Monday our Science Topic was HOW ANIMALS MOVE? A very fun and successful lesson!

And now for the week of September 25-29;

Reading/Language Arts: Letters Hh, Ii, Jj, and Kk

Rhyming and Beginning Sound

Math: Numerals to 5 including 0

Science: Animals Change and Grow

Social Studies: Friends at School

Theme: APPLES!

Big News:

Please send a baby picture of your k kid if you haven't as well as the family and home picture.

ALSO Please send in an apple on Monday and Tuesday for so many fun math and eating opportunities!

and (GOSH I ask a lot of you!)

Your child can bring in nature items for our FALL discovery table. Chances are they won't get returned as we will play with them.

Examples are corn, gourds, pumpkins, acorns, leaves.

What else can you come up with?

Friday, September 15, 2023

2023 Week 2 Bears!

Hello, Wonderful Parents of a Kindergartener

(or two!)

Week two was full of procedures and practices and drills. The kiddos did great! We practiced a fire drill, a severe weather drill, bus safety, and safety drill as we "evacuated" to the church across the street.

As promised here are the super sweet photos of our cutie patootie racoons from last Friday:

If your kiddo's photo is not here it is because taking pictures of projects is an option for them.

Centers Selfie!

On Wednesday we had our first ever

CENTERS!

I prepare 5 stations that the kiddos rotate through in the afternoon. Here is this week's centers...

Station 1: Pattern Blocks

Station 2: Playdough

Station 3: Painting our Big Bears from Tuesday

Station 4: Puzzles

and (a Favorite!) Station 5: sorting and counting and recording M&Ms!

The centers change weekly and will become more academic, however we always have a fun "brain break" station!

Daily we create a page in our ABC BOOK that will come home at the end of October.

Here are a few we've made so far in no particular order!

Someone did some fun sorting!

This is a memory game that we played together and now they play with friends at choice time!

It's called Little Bear (he is hidden under one of the houses!)

Thank you for so many Kissing Hands!

These are a nice reminder of home

Choice Time is also a favorite!

On Monday we looked at our names.

We've really been practicing ONE capital and the rest lower case. Thanks for encouraging this at home.

We also read and sang the fun story

"Alligator Purse!"

Inside were words that begin with Aa

EEEE! Aren't those bears super sweet?

We read the classic book Corduroy and made our own Corduroys to take home to retell the story.

Everyday we sign on the Morning Message chart.

Printing and skill-of-the-day are our focus.

The "Cute as a Button" frames are our gift to you for helping your child and me with these first 2 weeks of school. Thank you for the generous donations!

You ROCK!