Our Names and Letter Gg

This week we learned the letter Gg.  It was a "great" letter!

We made gum-ball machines.

We enjoyed some G-inspired books, "Gorilla, Be Good!" and "Gus the Goat".

Everyone made goat puppets and sang G songs.

Glitter-Glue on G

Working in our journals on the letter G sentence.

Fun puzzles

The thematic unit was "names".  Everyone explored their name and learned how special their name was.  We especially liked the book "Chrysanthemum", where a little mouse learns just how special her name is to her.

Forming their names with alphabet magnetics.

We arranged the letters to spell our names, then used "fun crayons" to decorate.

Using art supplies to decorate our names.

In math, we began to learn how to properly form and count numbers 0-5.  Also, students were introduced to the number words one-five, we will continue to practice number and color words as sight words.  

The favorite book of the week was "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom".  A fun story about the alphabet.  Everyone also enjoyed "Chicka Chicka 123".

Making "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" trees that spell their names.

Listening Center: "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom"

Edible Chicka-Chicka tree!

Ms. Marzoni had to be out on Friday to have her wisdom teeth removed, but the students had a fun day anyway!  Thank you, Mrs. Guthrie and class, for the sweet sign you all made me.  It made me feel tons better!  I'll see you all Monday morning!

Student of the Week: Bo

Coming Up...

Phonics: Hh

Math: Comparing numbers 0-5 and number words one-five

Thematic Unit: All About Me

Tuesday, August 30 - Grandparents' Day Lunch - All grandparents are welcome to enjoy lunch with your grandchild.  Our class will eat lunch at 11:45 AM, please met in our classroom at 11:35 AM.  We will all walk to lunch together.

Tuesday, August 30 - Open House, 5:30 PM - All families are invited to our classroom Tuesday night.  Please come by and see what we have been learning in Kindergarten!

Monday, September 5 - Labor Day Holiday, No School 

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"Colors and Shapes" and "Gg"

We had a very "colorful" week in Kindergarten.  Our unit this week was "colors and shapes."  We had a blast creating great works of art with all of our wonderful colors and shapes.  In phonics we learned the letter Gg and in math we finished up our first unit on sorting and began the second unit on positional words.  We are busy bees in Kindergarten, having fun and learning everyday!

One of our favorite sites to visit is www.brainpopjr.com, there are wonderful, interactive videos, games, and quizzes.  And our two friends, Annie and Moby, are always there to teach us!  This week we learned from the "Colors" video and the students enjoyed playing memory match during center time.

Everyone graphed their favorite color, as a class we all liked red the best!

We read the book "White Rabbit's Color Book."  This helped everyone understand about mixing colors, we learned about primary colors and secondary colors.  We took all this great knowledge and had some color mixing fun of our own!

When you take primary colors and mix them together you get many more great colors, this was loads of fun.  Many students got so excited that they said "this is the best day ever!"

We painted each of our hands a different primary color, then rubbed them together to mix a new secondary color.  So cool!

More fun with painting, creating a "hand-print rainbow"

Throughout the week, the students brought in "show-and-tell" items to match our "Color of the Day" theme.

We also had fun learning about shapes, we made shape puzzles, outlined shapes with art supplies, created shapes with pipe-cleaners, and realized there are shapes all around us.

We made this yummy school bus snack, it "shaped-up" to be delicious!

Rectangle - graham cracker

Squares - chex cereal

Circles - mini oreos

This week was Gg week..Great!

Gumball Machines

Illustrating the "g" sentence in their journals, "Gary Gorilla gobbles green grapes."

Glitter-Glue G's

Student of the Week: Colin

Coming Up...

Phonics: Hh

Math: Topic 2 - Positions and Locations

Thematic Unit: All About Me

Friday, September 3 - "Happy Hat Day" - Bring your favorite hat to school and we'll wear our hats during the day in class, this will be a happy conclusion to our "H" week!

Monday, September 7 - No School - Labor Day Holiday

Wednesday, September 8 - Grandparents' Day Lunch - Our class will eat lunch at 11:30am, grandparents should meet in our classroom at 11:20am.

Friday, September 10 - PHS Homecoming - Students will be allowed to wear a Purvis T-shirt to support our football team on this day.

Friday, October 29 - Pumpkin Patch Field Trip - Mitchell Farms Collins, MS; Check out the link on the side to learn more about the fun we'll have at Mitchell Farms

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