Hello and Welcome to kindergarten fall 2021
The kids are all off to a wonderful start. They are extremely flexible especially with mask wearing. I am very impressed at how prepared they all are with extra masks! One idea that I noticed is a ziplock bag labeled "dirty" masks. The class has a very early lunch so we are having an afternoon snack each day. Please send in at least two-three snacks (we may phase out the afternoon snack but for now they are so hungry). I do have some emergency snacks just in case...donations are always welcome.
Here is this week's Swoop Scoop just in case you missed the email. There are some changes!
Here is a snapshot of the last two weeks in kindergarten!
Activities included:
- making Kindergarten crowns
- visiting our outdoor learning space and taking a mask break
- learning the names of our new friends
- math-playing with pattern blocks, roll/cover chester game, and Play Doh numbers
- reading books, letter A work, rhyming our names, and listening to the beginning sounds of words
- morning meeting activities greetings and games
- making a Chester raccoon puppet
- making a kissing hand necklace
- eating lunch in the cafeteria
- kept our masks on! (except for at lunch/snacks and when we went outside for a mask break)
- went to specials
- Started writers workshop "we are writers"
- Caterpillar/Butterfly Science and Journals
- Self-portraits and family portraits
The books we read or listened to included:
- The King of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes
- My Name is a Song by Jemilah Thompkins-Bigelow
- Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready For Kindergarten by Joseph Slate
- The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn
- Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
- The Family Book by Todd Parr
- and so many more!
