I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend despite the dreary weather! Please see below for a few highlights from our classroom last week. 😊
Announcements:
Quiet Time Towels
Quiet Time towels were sent home on Thursday for washing. Please have your child bring their clean towel back with them to school tomorrow (Monday). Thank you!
Nut Free Classroom
A friendly reminder that we are a nut free classroom. Please be sure not to pack foods that contains any nuts or nut products for snacktime. Since there is an allergy safe table in the cafeteria, nut/nut products are ok for lunch. Thank you so much for all of your help and diligence. It is greatly appreciated!
Curriculum Update:
Fundations
Last week in Fundations we learned about the letter t, b, and f. We also practiced the sight words "to" and "the". During the first few weeks of school we will be learning to read and spell color words as well! Last week's color was blue. Click here to listen to a song we used to help us practice this color.
Math
In math we began the first unit in our new Bridges curriculum! For our whole group lesson we practiced counting, sorting, and classifying shoes. The children then moved onto work stations where they got to explore math manipulatives such as unifix cubes, geoboards, pattern blocks, and polydrons.
During one of our whole group lessons we made a human graph and sorted our shoes by various attributes including sneakers/not sneakers, laces/no laces, velcro/no velcro.
Writer's Workshop
Last week in Writer's Workshop we practiced a very important pre-writing skill, drawing! We learned that shapes such as circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles can be used to make pictures (and people too!).
Reader's Workshop
In Reader's Workshop literacy and science came together last week as we read many poems and books about apples! We will continue our apple exploration this week as we also learn about Johnny Appleseed in preparation for his birthday on September 26th!
Special Guests
Last week we also welcomed many special guests into our classroom! On Monday, the Kindergarteners enjoyed a very special visit from Officer Hart and Rebel who taught us about school safety.
The children also enjoyed meeting Mrs. Carroll, Boyden's Digital Learning Coach! Mrs. Carroll taught us how to take care of our Chromebook computers and helped with the tricky process of logging in for the first time.
On Wednesday Mrs. Alden, one of Boyden's school counselors, came by for our first guidance/SEL lesson! She reviewed the Boyden behavior expectations and taught us about her job as a school counselor.
We ended the week with a visit from Mrs. Rinaldi, one of Walpole's amazing math coaches! She introduced us to JiJi the penguin and ST Math. The class was very excited to start solving puzzles and get moving on their own math journeys!
Thanks so much for taking a peek at our week! Please check back soon to watch us learn, grow, and play in the wonderful world that is K! 🍎📖🚌
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