Colors!!

This week we learned the letter Ss.  The students worked very hard to learn how to form this letter correctly and to practice saying the /s/ sound.  They are also learning sight words.  This week the sight word was "like".  In reading they began to read sentences with the sights words "I" and "like".

The letter Ss means we get to wear SILLY SOCKS to school!!

These sure are some silly socks!

The students drew a picture of their silly socks and completed the words by adding an "S" to the beginning.

 Snake starts with S. 

 And SQUIRREL starts with Ss too!!  Brody has a special pet that he shared with us this week.  We were all so excited Brody shared this special "S" Show-and-Tell with us!  And a special thanks to Brody's mom, Mrs. Kaci, too!

 Great Ss books.

 We also learned about colors this week.  We learned that you can mix primary colors to create secondary colors.  These two books "Mouse Paint" and "White Rabbit's Color Book" are excellent at explaining how to mix colors.

Each day we had a "color" Show-and-Tell

RED

 BLUE

 GREEN

 YELLOW

 ORANGE

 Doing our own color mixing, everyone thought this was so "cool"!

 We also began to learn how to read and spell color words.  We sang a song for each color word and began reading these words in print.

Graphing your favorite color

 Our reading story this week was "How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?".  We discussed fiction and nonfiction texts and made predictions about the story.  We also discussed the book elements (author, illustrator, title, title page and front cover and back cover). 

 We continued to learn about shapes.  Everyone loved the edible school buses and identifying the shapes that make up a bus.  A rectangle graham cracker, square Chex cereal windows, and circle oreo wheels.

 "Open House" is tomorrow night, we made some special crafts for the big day.  

Self Portraits 

 Another special "Open House" craft --- You'll have to come to find out why we painted our feet!

Student of the Week: Maddox

Coming Up...

Phonics: Aa

Math: 2D shapes and Positional Words

Thematic Unit: All About Me

New Sight Word: the

Sight Words (already introduced): I, like

Color words to practice reading by sight: red, blue, green, yellow, orange, black, brown, purple, pink, white

Monday, August 27 - Grandparents' Day Lunch - All grandparents are invited to lunch tomorrow.  Our class will go to lunch at 11:10 AM.  Please met in our classroom and we'll walk together to the cafeteria.  After lunch grandparents may take their grandchild to the book fair in the school library if they choose.

Monday, August 27 - Open House, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM - Families are welcome to come and see what your special kindergartener has been learning at school.

Spirit Fridays - Every Friday during football season is "Spirit Fridays".  Students may wear a spirit T-shirt (any Purvis T-shirt) on Fridays to support the PHS football team.  Go Tornadoes!

Monday, September 3 - No school, Labor Day Holiday

Blog Password: Alligator 

Letter Mm

What a fun week!!  This week we learned about the attributes of 2D shapes.  The students enjoyed learning about shapes throughout the week.

They made shapes puzzles.

 Created play-doh shapes 

 Sorted shapes

 And enjoyed some fun time at the carpet center.

 The letter for this week was the letter Mm!  What a marvelous letter it is!

 Marshmallows on the letter M

 We read the book "If You Give A Moose A Muffin".  The students traced their foot for the moose head and made a cute craft.  And we couldn't leave out the yummy muffins!

 Monster Munch!  Milky Ways, M&M's and Marshmallows...Mmmm!!

To celebrate the letter Mm we had a "Monster Mash".  The students made monster hats and played monster games.

 Monster Stomp

 Pin the eye on the monster

 We also enjoyed some more back to school books.  We especially enjoyed beginning the Junie B. Jones Kindergartener series.

 Student of the Week: Saylor

Coming Up...

Phonics: Ss

Math: 2D Shapes

Thematic Unit: Colors and Shapes

Sight Words: I, like

FRIDAY - "SILLY SOCKS" - This week we are learning the letter Ss.  So to conclude this silly week, everyone may wear Silly Socks on Friday!

Colorful Show and Tell!

Each day this week we will be have a special show and tell time.  Bring something for the "color of the day" to share with your friends.  It can be any item that will fit in your backpack that is the "color of the day". 

Monday - Red

Tuesday - Blue

Wednesday - Green

Thursday - Yellow

Friday - Orange

Throughout the week we will be beginning to learn how to spell and read these color words.  Start making flashcards at home to help your child read color words (red, blue, green, yellow, orange, purple, brown, black, white, pink) by sight.

Signed Papers

Beginning this week and continuing throughout the school year, your child will have "signed papers".  This will be a collection of their school work from the previous week.  Signed papers will go home each Wednesday.  Please review your child's progress, sign and return the attached cover page the following day.  Keep all of your child's work at home, reviewing your child's school work with them will help to reinforce skills at school. 

Grandparents' Day Lunch

Monday, August 27 - Kindergarten grandparents are invited to lunch with your grandchild.  Our class will be going to lunch at 11:10 AM.  An adult lunch is $3.25.  The cafeteria will be serving red beans and rice, quesadillas, chef salad, or a chicken caesar salad.  

Please meet in our classroom at 11:10 AM.  Afterwards, grandparents may take their grandchild to the library to visit the book fair if they choose.

Open House

Monday, August 27, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM - Come to our school to see what we have been learning in Kindergarten.  Looking forward to see all of our families at Open House!

The "blog password" is a fun way for students to remind parents to check out the blog and what they have been learning at school.  The class blog allows for the student to share with their parents and family what they have learned in Kindergarten that week.  At the end of each blog post there will be a "blog password," when the student tells me the password at school (remember to whisper, it's top secret :D ) they will receive a special prize.

Blog password: RAINBOW