Stop Drop and ROLL!!!!!

This week we have been talking about community helpers. We have focused a lot on firefighteres, police, teachers, builders and doctors. Next week our Old Fort Fire Department will be visiting for our annual fire prevention program. The children have practiced how to stay safe in the event of a fire. Please make sure you read all the great community helper books we have made this week. The books should go in your child's book box. I hope you enjoy reading them with your child. Check out this STOP, DROP and ROLL video we have used in class. Its quite catchy!!!

WE LOVE APPLES!

Teaching our Apple unit is probably one of my most favorite themes. I don't know about you, but when I see pumpkins and apples come out in the stores....I'M READY FOR FALL! I literally love everything about it.
We are going to be busy this week. We will be connecting our apple unit to our five senses.
Here are some questions we will be learning how to answer! We will even be putting our five senses to use.....with lots of tasting. YUMMY!

How do apples grow? How do apples change during the seasons?

Can  I hear, smell, taste, see and touch apples? How?

How does an apple get from a tree to our plate?

How can we describe apples?

What products can we make or buy made from apples?

Lastly, I will leave you two songs we will be using in class. I LOVE APPLES!

 

5 Senses

Letter Reversals.....try this trick!

I have had several parents ask about letter reversals. This is very common in both first and kindergarten. This is the best way I have found to combat the reversal of B and D. I think this trick is age appropriate and easy to remember. I hope this helps yourguys at home.

Also, don't panic when you see your child has written his/her name backwards. Usually this is just developmental. For some of our little ones, we are just learning the direction in which we read and write. There will be times you see your child forget  and as a result.....a well written name BACKWARDS!

Have an awesome Sunday!

Sorting, Patterns and Graphing....OH MY!

Wow, where is time going? Its almost the middle of September. We have been super busy learning many concepts. We have been working hard on learning to sort and make patterns. During a recent lesson we played a game with sorting. I sorted the children into groups and they had to guess my sorting rule. We sorted by hair color, eye color, shoes/flipflops, boys/girls and tall friends and shorter friends.

We have also been taking the sorting information and creating graphs. We have graphed our hair color, eye colors and the numbers of boys and girls in our classroom. We have been trying to use fancy words like DATA and ANALYZE. I know those are big words for small minds....but you would be surprised at what they can soak up!

Try some of these sorting activities at home. You could sort laundry, pets, toys, shoes....you name it!


***** Thank you so much- for helping your child with their reading treasure boxes. The boxes are on display until the end of this week.....They were just too good not to leave out a little longer- Awesome job ********