We have had weeks of being, well. Just plain out WILD!!!!!!!
We've be IN the Wild, and we've been Wild about Fire Safety!
So you may have asked yourself... Just what have we been up to the past two weeks that we haven't even had time to update the blog? Well it's a WILD story I tell ya! So pull up a chair, get comfy. It's been a long two weeks since you last heard from us.
We are enjoying our time of discovery in kindergarten at Samsula Academy! That's for sure!!!!!!!!!
I'll get to the fun part, but let's see what we have been up to academically the past two week.
We have learned the letters Hh, Dd, Rr, and Ee to mastery during the past two weeks. We have also learned the sight words: said, red, run, play, one, not, my, me, make, look during the past two weeks. Have you seen our word wall? It is already filled with all the words we can recognize by sight! It is amazing to see how far we already came in fourty days! We will continue the Preprimer list of sight vocabulary. We will know fourty sight words by the end of October! We are also reading sentences that contain our basic sight words and basic CVC words. We are becoming great readers.
Writing is becoming more easy to us now. We can write following our basic star writing rules. We use finger spaces, use punctuation, use an uppercase letter at the beginning of a sentence, and use the word wall to spell words. We should be writing three or more sentences now. Remember to practice at home. We need to gain a lot of confidence in the area of writing.
We have been busy with patterns in math. We are using skittles and all sorts of things to create and extend basic patterns. Who know math could be this much fun? We also learned how to recognize and write numbers to 30. We will continue to add 5 numbers a week. We also also busy learning how to count by 5s and 10s to 100. This is something you can help with at home. Remember, practice makes perfect.
Now on to the FUN!!!!!!
Our last 2 weeks in Kindergarten have just been full of fun! The kids have gotten to be "Monsters" AND "Firefighters"
We were WILD about "Where the Wild Things Are"!
In Mr. Gibbs' class we did a week long study on "Where the Wild Things Are."
In Mrs. Bowden's class, we further studied transportation and did some fun crafts with trucks, cars, and more.
Gibbstown and Bowdenville are already looking busy! We have homes and different modes of transportation now! During our unit on communities, both classes have made towns. We will continue to add to the towns until our studies are done. We are currently learning about the helps in our community.
We were also WILD about Fire Saftey. We are starting to learn about Community Helpers. We had so much fun learning about Fire Saftey. We made fun crafts! We learned all about the importance of fire safety!
Our kindergartners got to experience their first trip to the Scholastic Book Fair. They had so much fun making their wish list and getting to make book purchases. The Book Fair was a huge success and Mrs. Riddle got to purchase 1,000 dollars worth of books for our Library. So thank you to all the parents that let their children make purchases.
Thanks to the Yo-Yo Guy, we have Yo Yo's coming out our ears this past week! He came and showed the kids all about Yo-Yo's and now I think they are all ready to try some tricks out themselves.
We also had special guest from Wachovia Bank. We learned about Savings accounts and how we could open one!
We also had terrific kids this week. We are so proud of them all!
