1. BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT OUR KINDERGARTEN CLASS

2. We began the year learning to: Be Kind Work Hard Stay Safe

3. Sitting “Criss Cross Applesauce”

4. Standing in Line

5. Cleaning the classroom

6. Communication You can contact me through email: whitacej@pwcs.edu or by sending a note in your child’s yellow folder. Please include a phone number or email so I can get back with you.whitacej@pwcs.edu Our class has a website which can be accessed by going to: http://www.pwcs.edu/ I will send a weekly newsletter home (usually on Tuesday). I will include our learning objectives for the week, reminders, and suggestions for helping your child at home.

7. Homework Please read with your child for 20 minutes each night. I will send home some of the books that we make in class for you to read to/with your child. You may keep these at home or return them. Other suggestions for home practice will be included in my weekly newsletter.

8. Reading Children learn to read by having many opportunities to read collectively and independently. We read every day in class. Please read to your child daily at home. Students will make books in class and use the books for reading at school and at home. Your child keeps a poetry notebook containing poems and songs learned in class. We use the notebook to provide additional reading practice.

9. Literacy Centers During our daily literacy centers, children practice reading and writing skills while the teacher and teacher assistant work with individual children or small groups. The center activities are designed to strengthen letter/sound knowledge, listening skills, oral language expression, rhyme, letter formation and cooperation.

10. ABC Sorting

11. And More ABC Sorting...

12. Making letters

13. And making words...

14. Reading

15. Art Center with Ms. Persian

16. Computer Center

17. Reading with Ms. Whitacre

18. Lunch and Snack We will eat lunch at 12:15 each day. Because we eat so late in the day, we have a daily snack break at 10:30. PLEASE send a small snack and water for your child every day. Parents are welcome to join us for lunch.

19. Writing We write in our journals daily. Writing begins with drawings and proceeds to labeling pictures with beginning sounds, words, and eventually sentences. Please provide your child with writing tools, such as pencils, crayons, markers and paper at home.

20. Journal Writing

21. Math We are learning to form the numerals. We have learned to sort objects by color, shape, and size. We are currently learning to identify and repeat patterns.

22. Making Patterns

23. And more patterns...

24. Forming Numerals

25. Playing BUMP!

26. Report Cards and Interims Report cards are issued every nine weeks. Report cards come home in a folder. Please sign and return the folder. You keep the report card. Interim reports will be sent home halfway through each marking period. Please sign and return one of the two copies sent home.

27. We are off to a great start!