Week One Highlights!

We made it through the first week of kindergarten! We have been busy learning all about classroom and school routines and procedures, beginning with the Eagle Essentials.  Please ask your child to share with you how we can be respectful, responsible, and safe in Room 116 and Irving School.  Ask them to share how we can earn an Eagle Slip!  We monitor our classroom behavior using our behavior calendars.  Please check your child’s green folder nightly to see how their day went.  At the end of each week, please sign your child’s behavior calendar so that I know you are in the know about how your child is doing at school.  In the green folder you will also find student work, which can be left at home and notes about important Irving opportunities and events, which can be returned in the right pocket.  You will also find homework assignments in the green folder each Friday afternoon.  Please remember that homework is due the following Friday. 

This week we began establishing many of our academic routines such as Writer’s Workshop, Reader’s Workshop, Reading Stations, Math Whole Group, and Math Stations.  During Writer’s Workshop we introduced our writing journals and began developing writing stamina.  Please ask your child to share how we write a story—think, draw, write! 

Our story of the week was Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.  The reading comprehension skills we focused on this week were retell, connect, problem and solution.  Please ask your child to share their opinion about their favorite part of the book.  Our kindergartners have become so familiar with the text that they could probably read the book to you!

In Reader’s Workshop, we selected books for our personal book bins, learned how to be a book lover, and began developing reading stamina.  Please ask your child to show you how they are book lovers.  In reading stations, we focused on working in a group and working the whole time.  Please ask your child to share with you their favorite reading station this week. 

This week in math, we discussed how things can be the same and different.  We loved sorting our kindergarten shoes!  This week’s focus was sorting by color, size, and shape.  We explored math manipulatives during stations this week.

Finally, we had our first Cooking Friday of the year! Please ask your child to share with you how they made their own coconut trees from Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. 

Upcoming Dates

Labor Day—September 7^th NO SCHOOL

Back to School Picnic at Barrie Park—September 11^th-I hope to see you there!

Irving Curriculum Night and Open House—September 24^th 6:30-8:30pm