Word Family Books

Kindergarten made word family books to help them see patterns in words.

2009-2010 Kindergarten Class

Check out our recycling projects

Lanna made an easel and paint box.

Dylan made a bookbag.





Jaden made a supply box.













Millie made a pencil cup.

















Mariah made a doormat.

















































Mariah made a door mat.

Lanna made an easel and paint set.

Dr. Seuss's Birthday!

We celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday on March 2, 2010. The children brought in their favorite Dr. Seuss book to share with their friends. They enjoyed a birthday treat and played "Sneetch-Ball".

The Lorax Story

Feb. 27, 2010
A special guest from the Youngstown Litter Control and Recycling Program came to our room to read The Lorax. The children made puppets from the story and participated in the reading of the story with their puppets.

Kindergarten Boys and Girls

Pajama Day February 25, 2010

Kindergarten enjoyed sleeping in class on Pajama Day! We had three treats that started with the letter P for our letter of the week. We ate popcorn, pretzels, and popscicles!

Our 100th day of school was February 3rd....

Hat Day

100th Day of School

Our 100th day of school is upcoming. It will probably be on Feb.3rd if there are no snow days between now and then. The children are excited as I have planned some fun learning activities centered around the number 100.Your child will be asked to bring in a 100 collection of something small in a zip lock bag. Please help your child count these things out.A note will be sent home at the end of this week.

Reading

The students were introduced to the number words one to ten this week. Flashcards were sent home. These number words will be the focus for the next two weeks. Please practice these with your child nightly. Also, the children are learning winter theme poems and fingerplays. Ask your child to recite them for you.

Kindergarten has learned many poems and fingerplays. Ask your child to recite our poems for you. We have learned two poems for Thanksgiving ( Turkey Stew and Let's Eat ) along with There was a Little Turtle for letter t. Reciting these will help increase their memory skills along with building confidence.

Thanksgiving Feast

Here, too, are some of the posters we did for the Ohio State vs. Michigan Week...

And our Thanksgiving Feast...

Visit to Ford Nature

The students really enjoyed our visit to the Ford Nature Center.

November

Kindergarten will be learning about Native Americans and the story of Thanksgiving during the month of November.They will be creating an Indian village for our study . We will then conclude with a Thanksgiving feast with our first grade friends who will be the pilgrims and kindergarten the Native Americans.


Look for the new letter of the week each Monday along with the weekly 5 high frequency words. Please practice these nightly with your child they will greatly benefit from this.

October 19-23,2009

Kindergarten will be doing many math and science activities using a pumpkin during of October. Please send in a small pumpkin with your child this week.



This weeks letter of the week is m. There will also be 5 new high frequency words this week. Please practice these words nightly with your child. Every Monday they will be tested on these words.