September Already?

I can't believe it will be September 1st on Monday! Wow...time is flying by! I am have been so proud of ALL of my kindegarten friends and how well they have adjusted to full-day kindergarten following directions, sustaining stamina throughout our long day, being kind and respectful while at school to everyone around them and getting all their work done. They have learned SO MUCH in the past 7 days of school! I am so proud of them! Besides curriculum that we have been working on all week in math, reading, writing and SEL (social-emotional learning), we made our first class calendar. When it is a new month here at school, we make a calendar that has all the events happening here at Olive and in our classroom. Each month will have a theme to go along with the month. For our calendar today, it was a school house for September since it is the beginning of school. To make this calendar, I first handed out a school house color by number to the class. I showed them how to read the color key at the top and I showed them that they look at the numbers on the picture and color that part the color it says in the color key. They had so much fun coloring the school house today! When they were all done, I gave them the Septemeber calendar and we talked about all the important dates on it. THey were excited to see Jack's 6th Birthday on September 9th. We will be excited to celebrate with him here at school. I showed them how to trace the numbers 1-30 with a pencil and to ensure they traced the numbers correctly from top to bottom. Next, I gathered them on the rug and I showed them how to put the whole calendar together. They glued the calendar on the bottom first, their cut out school house on top and then I asked them to add some fun detail with crayons. Their calendars turned out great and they were all so proud to show me their finished products.

Have a wonderful long weekend, everyone!I will look forward to seeing all my kindergarten friends on Tuesday!