Welcome to Kindergarten!

We had a wild week! Here are some of the important things we learned..

Our cetners this week were all about monsters! We wrote power words, found and wrote CVC words, sequenced events in Where the Wild Things Are, and made text to self connections. We started Reading group during centers and are excited to learn to read together each day!

In Phonics this week, we worked on the letters and sounds for Ww, Jj, and Ee. We learned two new power words: to and do. We continued blending and segmenting and isolating beginning and ending sounds.

During Reading, we listened to and discussed the story Josie's Lost Tooth. We continued to make text-to-self connections to relate the story to our own lives. We revisited songs and poems that we have learned and found power words in the poems in our poem book. We learned new vocabulary words: sneak, persistent, imitate, and champion.

We practiced writing "I like" sentences during Writing. We worked on writing left to right, leaving spaces between words, and capitalizing the first word in our sentence. We are focusing on tapping out sounds we hear in words and recording each sound on paper.

In Math, we are learning about Comparing Data. We are practicing sorting and classifying objects by their attributes, collecting information, and organizing data into categories using objects and picture graphs. We are counting and comparing groups to determine which has more, fewer, or the same number of objects, and answering questions about the information shown in a graph. You can practice these skills at home by sorting toys, snacks, or other household items into groups and asking questions such as, “Which group has the most?” “Which has the fewest?” and “Are any groups the same?” We will continue this work over the next couple of weeks.

We visited the Lab and labeled our new themes. We had fun playing with Mrs. Silvey's class in the afternoon! Play Lab photos can be found here.

Halloween parade and party pictures will be posted next week.

Looking ahead...

No School 11/3
Picture Retake Day 11/4
Veteran's Day Assembly 11/11
Book Fair 11/16-11/20

Thanksgiving Break 11/25-11/27

Have a great weekend!

Jena

We had a short but busy week! Here are the important things we learned...

We explored books and activities about spiders and pumpkins to get ready for Halloween! Some of our activities during centers included building power words, playing CVC games, learning about the life cycle of a pumpkin, and finding pumpkin power words around our classroom.

In Phonics, we learned the letters and sounds for Hh, Rr, and Ll. We practiced writing and reading the power words "look" (heart word) and "and". We blended and segmented sounds and worked on beginning and ending sounds.

During Writing, we listened to and discussed good writing, generated ideas and wrote about ourselves, practiced telling our stories orally, and worked on writing from left to right. We also started using our word wall and sound wall to help us write power words.

We continued our numbers unit in Math by comparing numbers to ten. We will wrap this unit up in the coming days! Please keep writing numbers at home with your child.

In Reading, we have been working on making text to text and text to self connections. We are working on pointing to words as we read familiar poems and songs. Our new vocabulary words that we learned include greet, excited, lonely, and invite.

In our We Thinkers unit, Listening with Your Brain and Body, we are learning what it means to be a good listener. We are practicing using our eyes to look at the speaker, our ears to listen, our brains to think about what is being said, and our bodies to show we are paying attention. These skills help us follow directions, learn from others, and build positive relationships with our classmates.

We spent time with the Ladue Fire Department and talked about ways to be safe at home! Ask your child to tell you all about it.

We visited our new areas in the Play Lab! This quarter's themes include Farmer's Market, Animal Shelter, Community Helpers Theater, Space Station, Pizza Parlor, Nursery, Voting Booth, and Sink or Float center in the Science Lab!

Check out this quarter's Play Lab themes HERE!

Play Lab pics are found here.

Dear Parents,

We’re excited to share our upcoming PreventEd lessons for the K-4 grade levels that focus on building strong social and emotional skills. Each grade will explore important themes through engaging activities:

Kindergarten: Winning Friendships – Building positive friendships with kindness, sharing, and problem-solving.
1st Grade: Caring 4 Classmates – Developing self-respect, embracing differences, and supporting others with kindness.
2nd Grade: Friendship Rules – Learning key friendship principles: inclusion, giving chances, accepting differences, and enjoying time together.
3rd Grade: Building You, Building Me – Exploring how words and actions impact friendships, and how to work well with others.
4th Grade: Taking Charge of Me I – Focusing on self-awareness, goal-setting, and personal responsibility for actions.