A Great Week So Far!

We are having a great week so far. We began practicing writing our names. The children are working hard practicing to make sure their names start with a capital letter, making sure that all the other letters are lowercase. Your child will be bringing home a paper to practice. Please work with your child on this. We began introducing our math center. The students had a great time counting, making patterns, and sorting the different manipulatives in our math center. Mrs. Whitaker began calendar time. During this time, the children are exposed to the days of the week, months of the year, seasons, weather, place value, odd and even, a song of the month, counting by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s, counting money, patterns, telling time, ordinal numbers (first, second, third, etc...) and shapes. The students help Mrs. Whitaker with the daily news. A special friend of the day is chosen, and this person dictates something he/she would like her to write in the daily news. After the daily news is written, the children find the word matches, count the words in each sentence, discuss which sentence is longest, and other important skills. Please encourage your child to be a good listener during this time, because a wealth of important skills are reinforced each day at this time. We also visited our specials classes for the first time yesterday and today. The children had a great time! Please remember to always keep a pair of tennis shoes and socks in your child's bookbag in case we have P.E. on a day your child is wearing sandals or Crocs. We also continue to enjoy lots of great music. We sing "Welcome to School" each morning. Our latest numbers include "Gumslot", "Chicken Dance", and "You've Got a Friend." We hope your child is enjoying school. It is our mission to make learning fun! Thanks for sharing your children with us!