Happy New Year!

Favorite Apple?

As part of our unit on apples, the children participated in an apple taste-test yesterday. They got to taste a piece of a Red Delicious, a Golden Delicious and a Granny Smith apple. We explored the flavors, textures, colors, and sizes of this familiar fruit. The children enjoyed watching our "Favorite Apple Graph" change after each of children had their turn to taste.  The favorite apple?  YELLOW!!  The children are looking forward to our field trip to Dame Farm and Orchards next week.

Kindergarten fun!!

Dear Parents,

We are off to a great start in Kindergarten!  We have been having so much fun these first few weeks.  The pictures tell the story... smiles all around.  The children are getting to know more and more about their classmates through the fun "getting to know you" activities we have done.  They love playing the "Guess Who" game the best!

I am sure that, for many of you, when you ask your child what they did in school today they don't offer much information... but we have been very busy... 

• Check out our Guess Who paper plate faces the next time you are in the classroom.  Can you guess who is who? 
• We made flower name glyphs that are hanging in the hall outside of our classroom.  The number of petals = the number of letters in their name and the number of leaves = the number of syllables. 
• We have added our first poem to our Poetry binder.  The children highlighted the sight words (I, me, am) and illustrated the poem. 
• We  made our first Word Wheel for the word "I".  The children loved making these and then reading them to each other.  Be sure to keep these in a special place so that the children can refer to them during the year.
• Our Word Wall is growing every day.  We have names, color words, shape words and, of course, our sight words.
• We have been counting candles on cupcakes and adding apples to a grid.
• Our Let's Find Out magazines are always a big hit. 
• The Cutting Center opened!  The children are practicing their cutting skills by cutting on the dotted lines around coupons.  If your child comes home with coupons, now you will know why!
• We have been reading great books. 
• We are beginning our unit on Community Helpers.  We watched a DVD called What is a Community?  We will be walking to the Rochambeau fire station in October.  More information to follow...
• We adopted a tree in the playyard that we will watch all year.
• We have been observing in the garden.
• We are making a class book called Kindergartener, Kindergartener, Who Do You See? which should be completed soon.
• We have started our Rainbow Colors book. 

The list goes on....

I have received one scrapbook page so far!!  Once we have everyone's page, the book will start to go home for sharing with the families.  The children are so excited for their turn to take the book home.

Enjoy the smiles!!