Kindergarten Newsletter
3/17/17
Classroom News!
One of the goals we have in Kindergarten is to instill in our students an appreciation for the beauty and fun of the written word. Dr. Seuss books with their silly rhyming words (using actual words and invented words), put our early readers and writers at ease with their own newfound abilities for reading and sounding out words. An example of this was a check-in question we put on the board one day this week. "What rhymes with tote?" The children got a big chuckle as they fearlessly wrote words like "Cote," "Hote" and "Mote." Additionally the rhymes in Dr. Seuss books help our students figure out how to read words that may be new to them. Above all else, Dr. Seuss books are funny and, for this reason, help foster a child's love of reading.
Have you heard about the new restaurant that opened this week? It's a poetry restaurant! You'll know it by the big sign "You can get any poem you want at the poetry restaurant." Once you are seated, your waitress (aka teachers) present you with a menu of poems. (If there are any specials-of-the-day she will tell you about those too.) Once you make your selection your waitress will bring you your poem. After "digesting" it (decorating it with markers), you get to bring it home in a doggy bag. The children have written reviews and now the waiting lines are out of our room door!
Experts of the Day
Conversation Starters
* Tell me about the meetings you are having during Writers Workshop time?
* In which Dr. Seuss book would we find this line: "A peron's a person no matter how small!"
* What silly song ends with the words "I'm very very lovely"?
Poem of the Week
March
A blue day,
a blue jay
and a good beginning.
One crow
melting snow-
spring's winning!
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Technology We Used
We have been using an app called "Osmo" which is unusual because it is a hands-on app. The activity we used this week involved using shape tiles that the children could manipulate to solve tangram pictures on the screen.
Mrs. Opdahl came to our class at center time this week and presented us with a challenge: Figure out how to code the "BeeBot" in order to get it to the correct rhyming word!
Reminder
On Wednesday March 22nd Kindergarten will be celebrating "Wacky Wednesday." In the past children have enjoyed wearing their clothes inside out or backwards and/or wearing miss matched shoes and socks. We all look forward to a fun and wacky day.
Please keep the following in mind:
- Your child can be creative but safe shoes and appropriate clothes are necessary for outside time and PE.
- It would be best not to send your child in tights, because one art activity involves the children using their bare feet.
Thank you!