Mrs. Rehan's News
August 19th, 2016
Reminders
- We have P.E on Tuesday's and Wednesdays, please send your kiddos to school in tennis shoes.
- If you would like for your child to have a snack at school please look at our kindergarten handbook for an approved list and send one with them each day!
- Please send headphones or earbuds to school for computer lab.
Dates To Remember
- August 25th- First Early Release Day
- August 31st from 5:30-6:00 or 6:10-6:40- Group Conferences
- September 5th- Labor Day
Reader's Workshop
This week we learned about 'body control' and 'turn and talk'. We practiced lots of rules and procedures that will help us be great listeners at the carpet! I have been sharing some of my favorite back to school books with them and getting them excited about reading!!
Body Control:
- I will look
- I will listen
- I will raise my hand
- I will sit quietly
- I will keep my hands and feet to myself
Writer's Workshop
We talked about how author's of books can tell a story using pictures and words and how they can try it too! We wrote our first story with the topic of their choosing. I will keep this book in their portfolio to show you at the end of the school year so you can see how far they've come!
Math
This week in math we started our calendar routines. We talk about the days of the week, number of school days, weather, etc. After that we got to explore some of our favorite math manipulatives. Yesterday we even talked about how many sides shapes have!
Sight Words
Sight words are commonly used words that young children are encouraged to memorize as a whole by sight, so that they can automatically recognize these words in print without having to use any strategies to decode. I will give you more information about these words at our group conference! Each week they will have a new set of words to learn and I will remind you of next weeks words here!
- I
- see
- a
- the