We met our 2nd grade buddies today!  We went into Mrs. Zellmer's room and her friends taught us to play the card game WAR.  I hope you and your child will have a chance to play this fun game at home!

We also celebrated the 20th day of kindergarten.  Zero the Hero brought us a special 0 treat...apple cinnamon cheerios.

Happy Monday!  I hope you had the chance to enjoy the BEAUTIFUL weather this weekend...I'm lovin' it, and have my fingers crossed that the warm, sunny days will stick around awhile.

Even though it feels more like summer, we've started learning about FALL.
Last week, we graphed fall leaves and made these awesome torn paper leaf pictures.

Today, we read a story about apples, then tasted 3 different varieties...red delicious, golden delicious, and granny smith.  We also graphed which was our favorite.  Can you believe how many friends liked the tart granny smiths??

We also welcomed a new friend~Jaden~ to our kindergarten class!  

Here are a few pictures of our literacy centers for this week.
Our focus is letters and color words.

We started literacy centers today.  I have 5 stations set up, and the children will visit one each day.  We work with 2-3 learning buddies to practice skills that will help make us awesome readers!
This week we are working on reading and writing our friends' names.

Matching letters to spell names

Name puzzles

playdoh letter stamps

Stamping names

We had SO MUCH FUN visiting the Pineview garden this afternoon and picking beans.  In fact, we picked enough for everyone to take a bag home. Enjoy!!

Welcome to our class blog for the 2014-15 school year!  I hope that you will check back often to find out what we're learning each week in kindergarten.  Feel free to leave a comment, so we know you've stopped by :)

During our literacy time in the morning, we are doing a quick intro/review of letter names and sounds. Some friends know the letters from 4K-and home-but for other students, this is new learning.  We are also practicing forming the letters the "kindergarten way"...starting our lines at the top, and pulling down.

During our math lesson, we played our first partner game!  I was so proud of the way the children were talking and learning together.  We've been using the words "same" and "different" to describe shapes, and we've also been writing and counting using the numbers 1 and 2 (so far :).  Our Math program spends a lot of time on the numbers 1-10, so students have a great understanding of what those numbers actually mean, and different ways to make them (ex...2 and 3 are the same as 5).

We've also been getting to know our friends!  Each day, we spend some time getting to know one of our friends a little better by asking them questions about themselves.  Then we talk about their name, and draw a picture of them (your child will bring their pics home in a class book!)
But the best part is just playing together...it's great seeing all the smiling faces during playtime!!