First Quarter Calendar
Interims home – October 13, 2008
Report Cards home – November 10, 2008
PEP Kindergarten Literacy Night - September 18, 2008 6:30 pm
Back to School Night – September 23, 2008 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Volunteer Training – October 2nd or 9th 10:00 a.m.
Picture Day – October 10, 2008
Career Day – October 13, 2008
PALS Assessment begins – October 14, 2008
Conference Day – November 4, 2008
No School – November 3rd and 4th, 2008 |
Gingerbread Cookies!
We read and compared several versions of The Gingerbread Man with emphasis on setting, characters, beginning, middle and ending. We sequenced the events and practiced retelling the story using complete sentences. We measured and mixed and made a giant gingerbread man but he escaped from the oven! We toured the school looking for him. The story ended the same – he was eaten!
Apple Sauce!
In celebration of fall, we used an assortment of apples for Apple Math activities.
We used our apples to:
- make a picture graph and sort our apples by color: red, green, yellow.
- estimate how many links we needed to go around our apple.
- introduced our tool for measuring (a scale) and estimated which weighed more – our apple or a block. We experimented to see how many blocks it took to balance our apple.
- experimented to see if our apple would float or sink. We tested other objects too.
- sorted our apples by size: small, medium, large.
- arranged them in order: first, second, third, fourth, fifth.
When we were finished with all our activities, we recycled the apples into homemade applesauce!
Pumpkin Day is coming Thursday, October 30th!
This is a very special day for kindergartners – it is our “in house” field trip.
Many volunteers are needed to make this event a success! Contact your child’s teacher if you can help!
Students will rotate among pumpkin related centers doing the following activities:
- counting and sorting pumpkin seeds in piles of 10
- making Jack – o – lantern faces using shapes (circles, triangles, rectangles, squares)
- going on a pumpkin hunt
- pumpkin /sink or float
- pumpkin carving/jack – o – lantern face graph
- estimation activities
- pumpkin snacks
Our emphasis during our first nine weeks of kindergarten will be:
Recognizing our own name
Recognizing names of classmates
Writing our name correctly (only the first letter of our name is upper case)
Associating letters with sounds
Discussing seasonal changes with emphasis on fall
Listening to and retelling familiar stories
Identifying characters, setting, beginning, middle, ending
Counting 1 – 10
Making sets of up to 10 objects
Writing numbers 1 – 10
Recognizing shapes (circle, square, rectangle, rhombus)
Understanding positional words
Learning The Pledge of Allegiance
Sorting by color, shape, attribute
Learning to be a good citizen (following the Ways to Be at OBE) |
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