September Highlights

It is already October???  Where did September go?  It certainly was a busy time.  So let's see what happened in kindergarten last month.

 

We finished our Gingerbread Man activities, we will revisit the Gingerbread Man again at Holiday time!

 

And we finished our Brown Bear, Brown Bear characters!  This took a whole lot of cutting and gluing with our gluesticks, but by the end we were assembling them with little or no help from me!

 

 

 

Here is our "wall story" of the book!

 

 

We enjoyed more stories about our favorite cat...Pete.

 

 

 Read books on the carpet.

 And started working in Literacy Centers!  What are Literacy Centers you ask?  Well those are the games and activities we do to help us become better readers and writers.  They are also the activities that we start doing independently or with a partner so Mrs. Windom can get the FAIR test done, or work with a small group of students.

 I start Literacy Centers with a whole bunch of reading games and puzzles that I have accumulated over the years.  We are building words, practicing the letters of the alphabet, and matching beginning sounds and  rhyming pictures.  This just gets them started "working" with others.  I really emphasize that this is not a play time, it is a working time, but working and learning can still be fun!

 

We are practicing staying put and completing an activity, so the no switching rule is put into place at the beginning, otherwise I tend to see a bunch of "roamers", who just look busy.

 

We practiced our "kindergarten coloring" as we learned about sequencing by putting the nursery rhyme in order.

 

 

We started our Math Series and learned how to use the wand on the ActivBoard.  The wand is really coming in handy this year as we have a bunch of teeny tiny kindergartners in our class.  It is also easier for them to move things around on the board with the wand, no matter what size they are.

 

 

We found out that every Friday is Puzzle Day!  Instead of an activity set out at our tables we get to spread out, socialize and do puzzles on Friday mornings!

 

 

 

 

 

We also celebrated 2 more Zero the Hero days in September!  Who is Zero the Hero???  Well he is our very own version of a super hero who just happens to like numbers that end in zero!

 

As part of our morning calendar, we are counting the days we have been in school and coloring in the days on the 100 chart, of course we are also making it a pattern!  But as we get to the number that ends with a zero, we find this bag on the rocking chair.  It has a note inside, but more importantly, it has a treat...shaped like a zero, of course!

 

 The first two Zero the Hero days featured those yummy little donuts, Zero, (aka Mr. Windom) got a buy one get one deal at Publix!

 

and for our third Zero the Hero day, who doesn't love a few life saver gummies to start the day!

 

We also survived our first full moon followed by three full days of rain!

 

to be continued...