Friday Fun Facts!

It was quick, but we had fun this week.  Everyone is working hard at trying to move their clip up. Starting next week, the kids will be bringing home a daily sheet about where their clip ended each day.  You can keep it in your child's folder and on Friday, you can take it out.  I will put a new page in each child's folder every Monday.

You may or may not have heard your child come home and talk about our "big news" of the day.  We start every day out by letting everyone share some big news that they may have.  If it is a day where a child does not want to share they can always pass.  Items to share can be anything.  I have heard about fun trips that have happened, dinner plans from the previous night, play dates, etc.  The sky's the limit with our big news.  It is always a fun time to learn a little about everyone as the year goes along. :)

We have been focusing a lot on the beginning kindergarten skills this week at centers.  The kids have been practicing their number writing and recognition skills at the red center (math center) by using a number line and filling in the missing numbers.  The yellow table (writing center) has been working on making a complete sentence about their favorite apple.  The purple (language arts) table has been working on letter formation skills.  The pink table (science, social studies, creative) has been very popular this week.  We have iPod shuffles that we use during daily 5 time to listen to books and respond to a story.  This week, I have introduced the iPod shuffles to the children and they have practiced using them to listen to a story.

Finally, on Thursday, we had our first convocation.  It was a lot of fun.  The topic was about bullying and learning about being kind to people and respecting everyone's talents.

I have also added some new pictures under the photo tab. Have a great weekend!