elc kindergarten

Week 3 Update                                                 August 26, 2012

What an awesome week!   From swirling with neon scarves in our first music class, to writing letters in colored shaving cream, to experimenting with color mixing and finger painting, it was a very colorful week too!  We even made our own popsicles.  We’ll be eating them Monday due to an over-thawing issue!  We’ll continue with colors a bit longer while we complete our color collage books and work on being able to recognize the color words.  We visited the Computer Lab and the Library for the first time this week.  Library books may be kept for one week. (Return each Monday)  It may be easier to bring them back on Friday so it’s not forgotten on Monday morning.  Some students have requested to bring home some of the small books in our classroom collection.  These are books that your child is beginning to be able to read by themselves with little or no help!  Please return those daily so they can be passed around quickly.  They will have my name or “Classroom” written in them. 

I’ll be sending home our first homework assignments this week.  They are just practicing a few things to reinforce what we’re doing at school.  I sent the color/puzzle for the sight word “the” last week, for your child to color/cut and keep at home.  The sheet for “see” will come home today.  You do not need to return it.  It would be a great addition to your fridge door! It can be colored and cut into a puzzle; you could even glue it to cardboard before cutting. (An empty cereal box would work) These will be great to collect for sight word practice. The other pages should be returned on Friday.   As always, please try to read at least 15 minutes with your child each night and record it in the Reading Log of the F.R.O.G. Notebook.  Any time the A Bekka readers come home, you can include that in the reading time.

We will be learning a poem for recitation on Friday.  Here it is so you can work on it at home. 

THE PURPLE COW

I never saw a purple cow;

I never hope to see one.

But I can tell you, anyhow,

I’d rather see than be one.

        --Gelett Burgess

Have a great week, Thanks for all you do!

Mollie Roberts

Homework

·        Read 15 minutes each night

·        Make a puzzle out of the sight word “see” page(keep at home)

·        Practice “The Purple Cow” poem

·        Complete the Handwriting page

·        Practice your name, address and emergency telephone #

·        Count the number of pennies in someone’s purse or pocket Write it on the Handwriting page.

·        Show and Tell – Bring something that begins with a vowel sound (keep it a secret from the class) and think of 3 clues to help us guess what it is.