August 9, 2017
Welcome to Ms. Colette’s and Ms. Elisa's Kindergarten Class at Discovery School! We are excited to meet all of you!This will be an amazing year filled with wonderful learning adventures!
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Starting kindergarten is one of the biggest milestones in a child’s life. In kindergarten your child will grow socially and emotionally. Their ability to think, use, and recognize language and their fine and gross motor skills will be developed through play, art, dance, music, movement and interacting with others. Most importantly, your child will be learning to become an effective learner.They develop and extend their communication skills, build their self-confidence, learn to be creative, and develop skills that assist them with reading, writing and mathematics.
During the first three days of school we are going to be doing a variety of activities to get to know each other.
Phonemic Awareness: is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes- in spoken words. Before children learn to read print, they need to become more aware of how the sounds in words work. They must understand that words are made up of speech sounds, or phonemes (the smallest parts of sound in a spoken word that make a difference in a word’s meaning).
These first weeks of school we will be doing a lot of activities to identify a letter, a word, and a sentence.
During the first three days of school we are going to be doing a variety of activities to get to know each other.
Some of the stories that we will be reading during the week are:
The Kissing Hand
by Audrey Penn, School is starting in the forest, but Chester Raccoon does not want to go. To help ease Chester's fears, Mrs. Raccoon shares a family secret called the Kissing Hand to give him the reassurance of her love any time his world feels a little scary.
Some of the words we will be discussing from this book are: raccoon, thoughts, thoughtful, nuzzled, scampered, promise, warmth, and nocturnal. We will discuss the meaning of the word fear and children will get to share their feelings for the first day of school!!
Froggy Goes to School
by Jonathan London, Froggy's mother knows that everyone's nervous on the first day of school. "Not me!" says Froggy, and together they leapfrog to the bus stop -- flop flop flop.
Chrysanthemum
by Kevin Henkes, Chrysanthemum thinks her name is absolutely perfect—until her first day of school. "You're named after a flower!" teases Victoria. "Let's smell her," says Jo. Chrysanthemum wilts. What will it take to make her blossom again?
In our first Social Studies unit we will be talking about MY SCHOOL. Some of the vocabulary words we will be introducing in this unit are: stapler, staple remover, tape dispenser, tacks, paper clips, desk, paintbrush, hole puncher, glue, markers, eraser, ruler, scissors.
Phonemic Awareness: is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes- in spoken words. Before children learn to read print, they need to become more aware of how the sounds in words work. They must understand that words are made up of speech sounds, or phonemes (the smallest parts of sound in a spoken word that make a difference in a word’s meaning).
During these first three days we are going to be talking about Kindergarten Expectations. We are going to be discussing the following with them:
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