We have had a great first week and a half of school! The kids have done a wonderful job. We have begun to set the tone for an awesome Kindergarten year packed with learning!
We have been working on establishing a community of learners this week. This includes setting routines and expectations. This will be our focus for several weeks and continue throughout the year. Children are much more willing to take a risk in a comfortable, supporting environment where expectations are clear.
Cute kiddos!!
David Goes to School by: David Shannon helps us with rules and expectations at school
We are also working on many social skills such as looking at the person talking, taking turns, actively listening to peers, participating in discussions/conversations and raising their hand to speak.
Many of our lessons/activities have revolved around our names: how they are all special and unique, spelling them, recognizing them and learning our friends and teachers names.
Torn paper name craft focuses on learning our names and fine motor skills
Look how we can write our name!!
Friday Folders will come home each week with important papers and a behavior checklist. We don’t start the behavior checklist in Kindergarten until September 16th because it takes awhile for the children to learn school rules and expectations. Kindergarten, however, has chosen to do behavior checklists online with Google Docs. We will send them to you via email once this begins, rather than a paper copy. Look for more information on this closer to that time.
Please look through the folder each weekend, clean the papers out and return every Monday.
Have a great weekend! Don't forget to send the kiddos to school in their Beulah shirts for Spirit Monday and remind them to go straight to the gym, rather than the classroom on those days!
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