September in Kindergarten

It's been a busy month in kindergarten. We have been learning so much. The students have been going to Art, Music, and the LRC as well as all our regular class activities. The last two weeks we have been working on letters, rhyming, initial sound recognition and numbers. Everyday during circle time we have been working in our binders keeping track of the days of the week, the days in the month and we talk about the seasons and the weather as well. As the months go on I will be adding more to the binder. It makes the learning more hands on and they are not just listening to me they are participating in the activities and are engaged. We started the star of the week a couple of weeks ago and they get so excited on Fridays when it is mystery bag day and because the new star of the week is picked. We play a little game until there is one student left and that student is the star of the week. It's so much fun. The monday readers have been a big hit. Thank you for taking time out of your day to come in to read to the children. They really love it. I love how creative the parents get. This week we will have our first science day. We will be examining physical and chemical change. The students will be making gak and observing color change, it's a big hit. We will also be discussing Johnny Appleseed this week and start our Farm to table inquiry based unit. It will last several weeks and cover everything from growing food on farms to bringing it to our homes. We will also visit a pumpkin farm during the unit and our next science day will be centered around pumpkins. Johnny Appleseed will be a great start to the unit because he traveled the country planting appleseeds. In Math we will be graphing apples so watch the buzz closely the students will need to send in an apple. Check back again!