Kissing Hand Snack

We read the story "The Kissing Hand" today!  We loved this story.  We were able to go on a tour of the school and hunt for Chester the raccoon while on the hunt.  We never did find him.  By the time we got back to our classroom Chester had disappeared back into the book.  He did leave us a treat of a chocolate kiss. 

So for snack we had our own Kissing hands.  A sugar cookie cut into a hand shape with a kiss inside it.  They loved it!

Working hard~

Here are a few shots of us working hard today on one of the many activities we did in our classroom!  I hope this first day was as special for the students as it was for this teacher!

Class Picture!

Here are our class pictures from the first day.  Some are silly!  Hope you LOVE them!

What a first day!!! ~

We had an excellent first day of Kindergarten.  We were super busy all day long.  We spent a lot of time learning the rules and routines in our school.  All the students tried very hard to learn them as best they could!  We will continue to keep practicing these as the days continue on!  We started out of our and ended our day the same way.  We were busying working on our social skills by having our center activities out!  Here you will see some pictures of just a few things we were able to do during this time!  Enjoy!

Welcome Back!!!

I hope everyone had a great summer!  Welcome back to a new school year!  I have very excited to have your child!  I know it is going to be a great school year!

I hope you enjoy this blog as much as I enjoy providing you with what we do in our room.  I do put MANY pictures up here so you can see what is going on in our room!  Plus it is always fun to see your child having a great time at school.  :)

Let's have a great year together!
Mrs. Hendershot

Newsletter Information

Tips for the summer and Dates

·      May 24^th – 2:00 Dismissal

·      May 27^th – No School

·      May 29^th – Kindergarten class picnic at Liberty Park

·      May 30^th – Last Day of School!!!  11:00 Dismissal!

* Please practice basic addition and subtraction.

* Work on writing numbers to 100 and practice skip counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s.

* Have your child read a book and retell the events in the book to you. 

*  Write a story using a beginning, middle, and end.

Reading

We have finished up our final book club books for the school year.  We worked on these new levels for 3 weeks and the students began to really understand their levels.  Comprehension is one of the keys to reading and we worked hard at understanding our books.  Keep reading this summer to maintain your child’s level.

Math

We have finished up our math for the year.  We worked very hard all year to understand a wide variety of concepts.  These past weeks we worked on money!  This can be a difficult unit but we worked very hard!  We learned the names of the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.  Then we spent time learning how much they are worth.  We even did a little counting of money.  Please continue to work on this at home over the summer.  They had a great time doing this and cannot wait to show you their ability.  Keep up all the hard work this summer!

Newsletter Information

Dates:

May 13^th – Late Start

May 24^th- Return books!

May 24^th – 2:00 Dismissal

May 27^th – No School

May 29^th – Kindergarten Picnic-more info coming soon!

May 30^th – 11:00 Dismissal- Last Day

Tips:

·      Work on counting pennies, nickels, and dimes.

·      Work on telling time to the half hour.

·      Have your child write you a story using at least five sentences.

Reading:

We have been working very hard on our book club books.  We were all just re-tested and trying out our new levels before summer.  These levels are very important to the students!  They love to see how the books change as they move through the levels.  Please keep reading over the summer!   By practicing their reading skills over the summer they will be able to maintain their level.

Math:

We spent the last weeks working on skip counting.  This can be a difficult task.  We really spent most of our time working on counting by 5’s and 2’s.  Please work on this at home some also!  They have been skip counting by 5’s to 100 and skip counting by 2’s to 10.  Ask them to show you what they have learned!

Science/SS

In Science they are discussing living and non-living things.  They are very excited because this will lead into an animal report!  In SS we just finished up our unit on People, Places, and Events.  We are now focusing our last unit on People and the Government.  We are excited to learn about all of this!