| Here are some ideas to focus on when asking your child "What did you do at
school this week?"
Week of
This week we…
*Practiced writing uppercase E and lowercase e. Ask your child to tell you
Ms. Marney's letter Ee poems. E: Long Line down, top across, middle across,
bottom across" e:"line across, up and around"
*Practiced writing "e" words and the words "be" and "me". Ask your
child to spell these words.
*Continued to work on sorting different objects.
*Used the activboard to complete a flipchart on the letter "E"
*Worked on reading our color words. Can your child spell red?
*Practiced drawing a teddy bear picture step-by-step, and labled our
picture "My Bear".
*Used gummy bears to help us practice our color words. We sorted our gummy
bears by color, counted our gummy bears, and graphed the different amounts on
graph paper.
*Bean talking about community helpers. Ask your child to name 3 people that
help in our community. How do those people help us?
*Were visited by Mrs. Carter, our guidance conselor. We enjoyed a story, and
talked about what it means to be a kindergartner.
*Practiced our color words in the computer lab, as we colored in a bear
template and labled the picture with the color word that best described our
bear.
*Continued working on counting to 10 in Spanish with our Spanish teacher
Senora Ivonne.
*Septmeber Calendar topics include:
-How many days we've been in school
-Name of the month (September)
-Number month (9th)
-Year (2008)
-Writing the date (9-xx-08)
-Patterning
-Counting numbers 0-30
-Daily Depositor (using pennies to keep track of how many days we have been
in school each week. Using nickels to keep track of how many weeks we have
been in school. Making a "fair trade" by trading 5 pennies for 1 nickel.)
-Working with sets of 5.
-Ordering the days of the week.
-Vocabulary: Yesterday was ________, Today is _______, Tomorrow will be _____,
above, below, outside, inside, in front of, beside, behind.
*Dolch words
and a away big blue can come down find
for go funny help here look make the two
I me jump play red said see to up
in my little we where yellow is not three
it one you
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