Dear Families,
Our next big event in November is our class play based on the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin Jr. The children, with the help of our classroom parents have created costumes depicting bears, cats, sheep, and lots of other animals. They have also practiced singing this story.
We continue to work on our reading skills. Thank you for helping at home by reading our take home books every night and practicing our class poems. These activities are fun ways for children to get lots of practice with a variety of books. To be better readers children need to read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read.
Children have also been learning about being good friends as part of our bully proofing. We talk about how to be good and responsible children everyday, but also have lessons to highlight aspects of our bully proofing and Coyote Code.
Math is also an important part of our kindergarten day. We use our calendar time to count forward and backward, to group to ten, to sequence the days of the week and much, much more. Math skills are often practiced in kindergarten through the use of games which give children multiple opportunities to practice skills like counting, adding, subtracting, counting on, and estimating in a fun and challenging way. We have created games to meet the needs of a variety of learners giving some children extra support and others a little extra challenge.