The First Weeks of School

We are off to a great start! Check out the first page in your child's digital portfolio. The link to our class work is to the left. You can also see pictures from the first days of school in our new slide show, also to the left.
In reading, we are working on identifying all capital and lowercase letters, including the funny "g" and funny "a." I will be checking these for the October report card. Students are also expected to write their first name, in either uppercase or lowercase letters. We sing the alphabet song just a little bit differently than they may have already learned - can your child do it for you? Our first word wall word is "the."
Our journals are filling up with wonderful pictures. We are practicing making up oral sentences to go with a picture. Since a sentence might be too difficult to write for most kindergarteners at this point in the year, we pick the most important word to sound out and label our picture with that word. You can practice sounding out words orally with your child. Start with short words. If hearing all the sounds is too difficult for your child right now, just ask for the first sound.
In math we are counting orally by 1s and 10s. We are identifying numbers (numbers up to 10 are expected for the October report card.) We practice place value and coins everyday when we keep track of our days of school during calendar time. We graph the weather for each school day and are graphing the teeth we've lost since the first day of school. Students are learning the days of the week and the months of the year. Maybe they have a song to sing for you!

Have a wonderful weekend!