Week of August 14

The first week of school is always the busiest!! I have lessons planned and I will do my best to get to all of them... However Rituals and Routines trump everything this week!! We will discuss our "BEE Attitudes" and our class rules for being a CHAMP. (Bee Attitudes are our school wide rules. Look out for the posters around school. They will be posted at every water fountain in the building. CHAMPS explain to the students what is expected with their voice level, who to ask when they need help, whether the activity is an independent one or a partner one, what they need to complete the activity and how much moving around the room is acceptable. )

The BEE Attitude poster that will be hung near the water fountain at the end of the Kindergarten hallway. :) 

CHAMPS example... 

My CHAMP pictures are hung on the front of the bathroom door. They are Kindergarten friendly.

READING: I love reading and we are beginning week one discussing the following Sight Words= red, green of & a. (A slideshow to help you practice these words will be found at the end of this post.) We will also complete a class Predictable Chart titled~ Colors We Love! The repetitive sentence structure is I like ____.   Along with sight word readers on all of the colors!! The books I chose for this week are Rainbow Hair, Cars and The Monster Color Book. The students are going to love them!! Plus we will begin Nursery Rhymes. The ones we will listen to this week are Roses Are Red; Ring Around the Rosie; Rain, Rain Go Away & It's Raining, It's Pouring.

MATH: We will sing songs and dance for number recogntion and counting to 100. (There is a link to a few of the counting songs I use at the top of our blog. It's one of the hot pink quick links I made. ) We will also break out MATH Journals and discuss the district Mathematical Practices!

Learning for Life Lesson: Every month we will complete a lesson that supports a life skill. (I am told to do these by the District. Thankfully I can gear them to the needs of our class.) This month the skill is HONESTY. We will watch a video and discuss why the people no longer believed the boy and thought he was telling tails. (The video can be found at the end of the post~ The Boy Who Cried Wolf.)

WRITING: Kindergarten writing starts out very simple!! The main focus right now is to get your child connecting the pencil to the paper and drawing pictures. We will be working a lot on getting our pictures of people DETAILED.  Detailed faces, a neck, arms coming out of the upper torso, legs coming out of the lower body, etc. (Keep an eye out for some pictures to be posted next week on the blog.) 

Also... Every Friday we have Fun Friday Snack and a special little dress up activity. This Friday, August 18 is School Color Day. Please have your child dress in Chimney Lakes Colors by wearing yellow and blue. They can choose to wear as much or as little as they want!  I make a slideshow of picture every Friday of the students that participate. :)