Second Full Week in Kindergarten: September 15-19, 2025

 

Math

What shape did you pull out?

What is it called?

How do you know?

Math

Naming & Sorting 2D Shapes

Kindergarten Goal: I can name 2D Shapes.

Recess

Exploring the gardens.

Phonemic Awareness & Phonics

We began Week 1 of myHeggerty Bridge to Reading.

Practicing: rhyming, initial phoneme isolation, blending words, phoneme isolation: final sounds, segmenting into words, adding words, deleting words, and substituting words.

The children got their first look at their workbook.

Read Aloud

Abiyoyo, is a fiction story by Peter Seeger.

Our first 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.

Navigating the salad and fruit bar in the lunchroom.

Handwriting

Building Mat Man

Everyone contributed.

Mrs. Dalessandro (Our Literacy Coach) introduces herself and reads to the children.

Math

Focusing on the numbers 1-10.

Doting careful match to each number.

Practicing cutting straight cuts.

                                                      Cutting a jelly fish head.

Finished work.

These are hung in our classroom.

Recess

Thanks for sending sneakers so your child can run and climb comfortably!

Stations

Read to Self

Partner (Buddy) Reading

Partner reading

Practicing sharing one text together elbow, elbow, knee, knee (EEKK).

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

Writing

Practicing telling a story of her own.

Read Aloud

Revisiting Abiyoyo.

Learning about community.

The vocabulary we focused on while enjoying Abiyoyo.

Music with Ms. Bean

Singing "Doggie Doggie Where's My Bone?"

Centers

Mixing Colors

Starting out with only red, blue, and yellow tempera paint.

Centers

Play Doh

Math

We practiced saying the months of the year.

Each child shared their birthday (if they knew).  

It was great to see that most children are able to say their birthday (month and day).

We graphed everyone's birthday.

See if your child can state their birthday.

Read Aloud

To go with our graph lesson.

Phonics

Stations

Name work

Quiet Time choice: whiteboards

Handwriting Readiness

Mat Man

Contributing all the body parts.

Independent Work: Writing our names with the first letter capital and trying lowercase for the remaining. Drawing Mat Man.

Read Aloud

Abiyoyo

Discussing story elements.  This is done whole group at the beginning of the year, but eventually a kindergarten goal is for your child to be able to provide this independently.  Practice when you can at home after a book you read to your child.

Centers

Day 2 of mixing colors to give everyone a turn.

Painting with the color she mixed.

What can you make with red, blue, and yellow?

Math

Securing the features of basic shapes.

Looking for shapes in our world.

Independent work.

Phonics

Significant work this week with this letter chart.

Your child will be using it often.

It came home on Friday in your child's Home/School Folder. 

It would be a great tool to keep handy at home.

Quiet Time

Cosmic Yoga: Going on a Bear Hunt

Read Aloud

Celebrating what makes each child unique.

Be you!

Partner work to watercolor their own elephant.

Sharing a watercolor set and water and working together.

Art Easel

Painting with tempera at the art easel.

Cutting practice.

These beautiful watercolor elephants are hung in our classroom.

Math

Learning about several ways to count and the importance of counting accurately.

Focusing on trying different counting strategies.

Lining them up to count.

Touch counting.

Trying the strategy of marking to be sure she accurately counts.

Recess

Enjoying trying basketball.

Taking turns trying to get the ball in the net.

Read Aloud

A story about friendship.

The children love this one!

Scholastic News Let's Find Out

Relationship skills:

Children explored different way of making friends.

Phonemic awareness

Letter Knowledge

Letter sound work.

Centers

Dot-A-Dot Markers: apple

How Big Could Your Pumpkin Grow?

Centers

Library and Listening

Dog Days of School

Centers

Games: Floor checkers

Centers

Games: Checkers

Centers

Drawing & Writing

Centers

Art Easel

  Mixing colors on the art easel.

Centers

Dramatization: House

In this first week children decide what they wish for the area to be 

- a home, part of a home, a school, a restaurant etc.

Dramatization

A place for pretending!

Centers

Art Table: Play Doh

Mr. Davis (Speech & Language Pathologist) plays with the children.

They work on conversations.

I plan to send A Peek At Our Week when we finish each week.  Please watch for these in your child's Home/School Folder.  I hope it is helpful to see what we are doing in kindergarten.  When time allows try some of the activities to see how your child is doing.  

These do not need to come back to school They are for you and your child.

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.

Three things that would be greatly appreciated:

1. Please 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!

2. Please pack your child's snack separately from their lunch and pack only a couple options (15 minutes).

3. Please send a low (14 oz. or less) spill-proof water bottle.  The bottles keep getting taller and taller every day.  I know they like them, but they are hard for the children to manage.  

THANKS! 😀

Kindergarten T-shirts were ordered.

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Coming soon ... our first field trip! 

It is still being planned, but we will let you know when it is confirmed.