This week in kindergarten

Please note; there is no school Friday (October 30) due to a teacher planning day.

Grandparents and Special Friends Day is this Thursday.  We will have activities in the classroom for grandparents and friends from 10:00 to 10:45.  Many thanks to Morgan for coordinating this.

We are beginning to focus on blending letter sounds together to make simple words.  We are working with the "letters we know" -- m, t, a, and p.  With these letters we can make many words including at, mat, pat, map, tap, Pam and more.  Many students are very quick to "get it" when we substitute first letters (mat to pat) but have a more difficult time when we substitute last letters (mat to map).  This will continue to grow in complexity as we add more consonants and when we begin adding more vowels.

Lea, our Room Parent

Many of you have met our room parent Lea, mother of Stevie (and 2nd grader Poppy).  She may be sending out information about all things Kindergarten (or PTA) and is helping, along with Morgan, to coordinate our auction project.  Please be sure to thank her for all her hard work.

And, again, thank you to all the volunteers who have helped in the classroom.  This has been a great year,thus far for volunteers.  We need volunteers both for special events, like our field trips or the auction project, as well as to help with our daily routines!  Thank you!

There are tons of clothes and more in the lost and found in the main hall.  These will be bagged up and donated soon.

I still have four or five pictures.  Try to stop by and grab them.  I hope to keep them out of backpacks.

This week's themes:

Theme Book: Animal Babies in Grassland.
Literacy Theme: Main idea
New words: we, my like.
Words we know: I, am, the, little, a, to, have, is.
New letter: Pp
Letters we know: m, a, t, p
Math: Numbers to 10.
Song: Do, Re, Mi