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

Spider Mania and a Monster Mash

This week we learned all about SPIDERS!!  The students loved learning about these creepy, crawly creatures!

Watch this super cute video of the students playing a game show called 'Spider Mania', they learned a lot about spiders!!

They went on a spider hunt, digging for spiders, then counting how many they found and recording their findings.

Hanging spiders, these look great hanging from the ceiling in our classroom.

Spider games at the computer center.

Bo brought in a book that told us about the wolf spider and the black widow!

We created a class graph answering the question "Are you afraid of spiders?".

Most of the students voted "no" they weren't afraid, but I have a feeling they may not be so brave if a real tarantula were around!

This week we learned the letter Mm!  What a marvelous letter!

Graphing the M&M colors.

Making monsters for M!

We loved the books, "Go Away, Big Green Monster!" and "Louie and the Monsters".

On Friday, we ended our fun Mm week.  We had a "Monster Mash", the students made monster hats for the big Mm finale.

Marshmallows on M

This week we explored with reading and writing our own sentences.  The students read these predictable sentences, "I am a ___ monster." and matched the color word with each sentence.

Then the students completed their own sentences, reading and filling in the words they could read and write.  They sure did work hard!!

They read their second book for the phonics libraries at home, "Hop on the Mop".  Keep practicing these books at home, remember practice makes great readers.

The students wrote a sentence from their book, they wrote the sentence "Tom got a mop.".  They are working to try to sound out and write the words they can read.  Everyone practice spacing between words and beginning their sentences with capital letters.

After all that hard work, it was time for the "Monster Mash" for the letter Mm!

They played "pin the eye of the cyclops".

They balanced candy eyeballs in the "eyeball drop".

Then it was time for a monster stomp, this game is much like musical chairs.  The students stomp like a monster and land on a monster foot when the music stops.

We ended Mm week with some yummy "Monster Munch".  We added marshmallows, Milky Way, and M&Ms. Mmmmm!

Mm Show and Tell - Marshmallows, mask, mittens, and mouth wash.

Cayden showing us "magic" for the letter Mm.

Bo lost a tooth (Ms. Marzoni is a pro-tooth-puller!) :)

Student of the Week: Karli

Coming Up...

Phonics: Ii

Math: Addition

Thematic Unit: Community Helpers

Monday, October 17 - Report Cards will be sent home, please review your child's progress, sign and return the next day.

Tuesday, October 18 - 50th day of school!!  Dress like the 1950's as we have a Sock Hop to celebrate.  Kindergarten Sock Hop is from 12:35-1:20 in the gym.

Friday, October 28 - Pumpkin Patch Field Trip - wear your class T-shirts

Monday, October 31 - Fall Refreshments - 1:00 PM

Friday, November 4 - Cowboy Day - Dress-up like cowboys and cowgirls

Blog password: icky