Seasons!

We spent some time in Social Studies discussing seasons so we took the time to graph our favorite season!  This was fun and it was a close race to see which one has the most votes and FALL won!! You can check this graph out by our door!

Pumpkin TIME!!

We spent some time on Friday finger painting pumpkins to hang in our room!  We had a great time doing this and we LOVE to paint!  Hope you get to enjoy them when you come in during conferences!

Newsletter Information

Mrs. Hendershot’s Class

Friday, October 4, 2013

Dates:

    October 9 – Early Out

    October 14 – No School

    October 23 – Early Out

    October 24 & 28 – 1:05 Out

    October 24 & 28 Parent Teacher Conferences

    October 29 – Picture Retakes

    November 1 – No School

Reading:

We have been working very hard in our Daily’s every morning.  We now have all of them in place and do three each morning for 20 minutes.  While the students are doing their Daily’s I am working with small groups on a variety of reading skills.  Some are working on letters, sounds, blending words, word wall words, and reading books.  Keep working hard at home on all these skills.  It will show in the classroom!

Math:

We have spent the last 2 weeks working on counting to 5, writing numbers to 5, ordering numbers to 5, and comparing numbers.  We have been very busy.  Please work on ordinal numbers to five, as this is very hard for the students.  Also please continue to practice writing numbers at home as we do occasionally still write them backwards.  J

Writing:

We have been very busy working on our lower case letters these past weeks.  We are working on 2 letters each day with our Friday writing time being spent on reviewing the letters we have learned.  Practice these as they come home also! 

Helpful Hints:

    Begin practicing working on two letter words with your child like if, it, is, etc.

    Start looking at the numbers in the teens for your child to recognize.

Partner Discussions!~

A favorite thing to do in Kindergarten is to turn to our neighbors and discuss.  We will ask each other questions, answer teacher asked questions, and even come up with ideas in these groups!  We love turn and talk time! 

Johnny Appleseed Sequence

We spent a lot of time the last couple of days discussing the life of Johnny Appleseed.  We really discussed how he went about planting his trees and the different stages the trees would be in.  So we decided to do our own sequence of Johnny planting his trees!  We brought it home to share his story to you!  Enjoy!

Homecoming Spirit!~

We got into the homecoming spirit on Friday the 27th by decorating some footballs for the big game!  Then we were able to walk down to the high school for an all school pep rally!  Finally we got to watch the BIG parade go by!  It was a great day!!

Johnny Appleseed

We enjoyed a celebration of Johnny Appleseed on September 26th!  We made hats and LOVED wearing them that day!  Hope you enjoyed them at home too!