W E L C O M E   T O   O U R   K I N D E R G A R T E N   R O O M

 We are here to learn lots of things this year!!

• Letter Names
• Letter Sounds
• To print upper/lowercase letters
• Understanding letters become words
• Learn words put together become sentences
• Reading books
• Sight Words
• Songs and dancing
• Colors
• Crafts and painting
• Cutting and pasting to make layers
• Counting numbers 0 to 100
• Counting by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s to 100
• Adding numbers
• Subtracting numbers
• Classification of living and non-living things
• Taking walks around our neighborhood
• A new virtue each month
• Write our name
• Compose our own sentences
• Tell a story drawing pictures only
• Days of the week
• Months of the year
• Count and learn about pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters
• Tell time on the hour and half hour

 

 

 

          We have afternoon recess. The great part about the afternoon recess is that when we get back to class, it is Snack Time.  Each month a snack calendar is sent home with the name of the student who is responsible for snacks that day.  These snacks are your choice and can be as simple as cookies to nutritious as carrot sticks.  One thing we know for sure is that on the days it is Mrs. Best’s turn; it is going to be chocolate!!  The student who has snack day also brings a show and tell object.  After we eat our snack, that student has a few minutes in the front of the room to tell us about their object and answer questions from their classmates about it.

          Friday is the day we bring home our Friday Folder to show some of the things we did during the week.   We include any paperwork from the office unless it is time dated and needs to be sent home earlier that week.  Those who bring their empty folder back on Tuesday get a sticker for being responsible. After 10 stickers they will be eligible to pick one item from our classroom store.  Please take time to look at their work and see what our class is doing!!
 

Our schools discipline model comes from the model, Teaching  with  Love & Logic.  Our schools have established strategies to guide our decisions for determining discipline;  these principals are from our student handbook.

1.  We believe students should be responsible for solving their own problems and adopting new behaviors with adult guidance provided the solution does not make a problem for others.
2. We believe that we should make every attempt to maintain the dignity of both the student and the adult during a disciplinary situation.
3. We believe that students should be given the opportunity to make decisions; they should see a reasonable connection between their actions and the consequences that follow.
4. We believe this misbehavior should be handled with natural or logical consequences instead of punishment, whenever possible.

 

     I say this as lovingly and as gently as I can.  The Kindergarten Room looks like “a fun room” to play in but it is a structured classroom.  To keep things in order I am asking you to not bring younger siblings and children into the classroom before, during or after school. 

     Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of your child’s life!!