Required Training for 2026-2027 Pond Cove Cafeteria Volunteers

 

First Full (5 Day) Week in September: September 14-18, 2026

Read Aloud

Abiyoyo, is a fiction story by Peter Seeger.

Our first K for ME unit this year is Our Community.

The children are learning how individuals, or citizens, come together to work, 

live, learn, and relate to each other in communities.

A read aloud to help prepare the children to be writers.

Math

Kindergarten Goal: I can name 2D shapes.

Math

Shape sort.

Name your shape.

How do you know?

Ordering by shape size.

Phonics

We worked on self portraits, names, and focused on the first letter of each child's name.

The children finished up their capital letters focusing on forming their first letter from the top!

These are hung in our kindergarten hallway.

Quiet Time option.

Spanish color concentration game with Senior Esten.

World Language takes place in the classroom.

Centers

Art Table

Play Doh

Extra tools were added.

Build 3D structures with Play Doh and wood sticks.

Center Time Board of choices.

Centers

Library & Listening

Recess fun on the Omni Spinner.

Math

Color by number.

 

Math

Focusing of two more 2D shapes.

Kindergarten Math Goal: I can name 2D shapes.

Tuesday's Quiet Time Option: Dot-To-Dot.

1-10.

Wednesday's Morning Meeting

Share

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Handwriting

Learning about lines.

Ask your child about Mat Man!

Read aloud.

Revisiting Abiyoyo.

Learning about community,

The vocabulary we focused on while enjoying Abiyoyo.

Read aloud work.

Setting was a new term for all.

Wednesday's Quiet Time option: white boards.

Centers

Math Table

Playing a dice game with Mrs. Johnsen.

Recording dots.

Read aloud.

Watercolor painting

Thursday Ms. Berry (one of our bus drivers) visited our classroom for a bus safety lesson.

Centers

Writing & Drawing

Drawn by Ollie.

I can use scissors safely.

Practicing cutting a variety of lines.

Glue down.

Decorate.

Thursday's Quiet Time choice: Yoga.

In the morning the children come into the classroom, we greet each other, they complete a few morning jobs and then wait for announcements.  

Playing with Lakeshore people.  

He has sorted and grouped them by type.

These ones look like they are lined up for a drill!

Math

Graphing 2D shapes: circle, triangle, & square.

Writing 

A read aloud to help the children to tell their own stories and eventually draw & write them on paper.

Finishing Elmers.

Celebrating the uniqueness of each of us!

Hung for all to enjoy!

Recess

Exploring the gardens.

Phonics

Capital & lowercase work.

We had fun reading this sequel.

Centers

Math Table

Attribute block exploration: sorting by shape.

Week 1 Goals

This update was sent home in your child's Home/School Folder.

Watch for one each week.

The more familiar your child is with this alphabet chart the better.

Please keep it handy.

This chart will be used daily for reading and writing!

Several families have asked how they can help.

It would be greatly appreciated if you could visit PowerSchool and check to be sure you have entered an emergency contact other than mom and dad.  We will always contact parents first, but really wish to have a separate contact when you can not be reached, thanks!

Kindergarten T-shirts were ordered.

Thank you for your orders!

Coming soon ... our first field trip! 🚌

If you think you may wish to volunteer as a chaperone this year on one of our field trips, please visit our district website to begin the steps to becoming a volunteer.