Apples

Here are a few pictures from the past few days of us celebrating Johnny Appleseed's birthday and studying about apples.  Enjoy!

 

We sorted them into colors.  We also counted our apples, talked about which color we had more of, and how many were left over after each child took one.

We created a pattern with our apples.  

Apple picnic at the carpet:)

We created our own ten apples up on top after reading the book.

Book Pig

This morning on Red Tricycle, I read about a new service for kids who have an appetite for books.  Book Pig, is like Netflix, only they send you books instead of movies.  You and your child select books to add to your queue, books come each month, you read the books and send them back, then more books come...  If you really love a particular title, you can pay for it and keep it forever.  If you want a recommendation, they can offer suggestions based on your child's reading level and interests.

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The good ol' library is obviously a cheaper book borrowing option, but if you tend to buy a lot of books, this might be worth a try.  Right now, they have a good back-to-school deal happening, so if you're interested, now would be the time to check it out.  



I thought some of you might be interested in this.  I follow a lot of teacher blogs.  This came from a mom who stays at home and posts about all of the ideas she uses at home with her child.  I thought this was post worthy!!  Enjoy:)  If some of you try it, let me know how it goes.  Thanks!

Popcorn Party

Our goal is to have a Popcorn Party soon.  I want the kiddos to be able to recognize all of their color words and names of the children in our class.  Almost all of them can do this right now from practice in the classroom.  Continue to work with your child.  When we all know them, we get to have the party.  They can do it!!!

Check out the color words on a previous blog and the class names I will send via e-mail for you to use as practice.  Thanks!

Bird's Nest

Today, a friend in our class brought in a bird's nest with 2 blue eggs.  How cool!  The kiddos loved it!  Thank you, friend:)

Glittering, Green Gs

Yesterday, we made glitter green gs.  Check them out!

C, O, G

This week we started Letterbook G.  I wanted all of you to be aware that it is important that you work with your child at home on these letter sounds.  They will begin putting these letter sounds together in the next couple of weeks to start reading short vowel words.  It's so exciting, but can be frustrating to the ones who do not know these sounds.  We review and work on them a lot at school.  However, it's so important to take the time just to review a little.  This builds their confidence knowing you want to see what they are learning at school.  Get excited!!

Also, review their number 1-10.  We are working on letter 6 this week.  This means, recognizing the numbers and being able to write them.  

Thank you!!

Picture Day Tomorrow!

Picture Day is tomorrow, Tuesday, September 14th!

Color Words

We started the year off with just our names on the word wall.  This week we added our color words.  Please review these with your children at home.  We do a lot at school, but of course you reviewing them at home will help.

You can use:

• index cards
• write the color word in with the same color marker
• spell it out and have them say the word

Be creative!

Here are the color words we added:

1. brown
2. blue
3. black
4. green
5. gray
6. orange
7. purple
8. pink
9. red
10. white
11. yellow

Picture Day

I wanted to go ahead and post that picture day will be Tuesday, September 14th.  I posted it under the Important Information tab.  Please always check that, even though I will always send home reminders in their folders.  I thought you might want to think about an outfit ahead of time:)

Also, we began the # 4 today.  I talked a lot about you draw a # 1, then draw an uppercase or capital L on top of the # 1.  That seemed to really help them with their formation of the number 4.  

I hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend!

hAppY GAME dAy wEEkeNd!!

Hope you all have a fabulous Labor Day weekend.  War Eagle!!

Right Vs. Left

Today, we began talking about the concept of left and right.  Another Kindergarten teacher came up with the brilliant idea of writing a R and L on their hands.  I took this idea from her and used it today.  So if you see a r and l on their hands, you now know what it is for.  You can ask them questions at home such as:

What hand are you eating with?

What hand do you brush  your teeth with?  

What hand are you writing with?

What hand do you throw the ball with?

I had one Mom tell me that the dad used a Barbie car and would say, "ok, which way am I turning now"? She would have to answer that the car is turning left or right.  What a great idea.  Talk to them about you turning in your car.  Which way are we turning?  

These are all just ideas.  You can do whatever you wish.  

Any question to bring awareness to to this concept will help!

Thanks:)