Fun week and WOW...my kindergarten friends are learning so much!

We have been busy owls this week and I am amazed with all my kindergarten friends are learning! I can't believe it's already September...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 10 days of school! I am so proud of them! In structured literacy, we have finished all the uppercase letters that use straight lines and are now moving on to letters that have curved lines. Today, we practiced making curved lines with proper line placement and ensuring they were making the shapes from top to bottom the correct way. We practiced on whiteboards first and then they showed me what they learned by completing a workbook page with the same shapes. Way to go, K-1!

In reading, we have been learning all about nouns. Today we learned about the difference between singular and plural nouns. We practiced this skill together and then they showed me what they learned by completing a workbook page. I am so proud of how well they can identify nouns! What smart owls I have in K-1!

In math, we have been learning all about the numbers 0-5 understanding how to write them the correct way from top to bottom and understanding the quantity of them. We have also been working on one-to-one correspondence to ensure they are counting things correctly. I have taught them to cross things out while counting on paper. They are doing such a great job learning all about these numbers and the cute rhymes that go with forming the numbers correctly!

Besides curriculum that we have been working on all week, we made our first class calendar yesterday. 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 yesterday! 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 Iris and Jayden's 6th birthdays on the calendar. We will be excited to celebrate with them 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 and they couldn't wait to hang them up at home!