Full Swing of Kindergarten

After 24 days of Kindergarten, we are definitely in the full swing of learning.  We started reading groups this week and did great.  Remember homework sheets do NOT need to be returned.   Check the white binders daily for reading homework.

We ended the day on Friday with a science lesson on the five senses of taste, touch, hear, smell, and sight.  We popped popcorn in an air popper and used all five senses.  As you go about your day, ask your child what senses he/she is using to accomplish the task.  We discussed that most activities do not use all five senses.  

Please help your child to remember to pack his/her library book for Tuesday's visit to the library.  

We continue to work with complex patterns this week.  We are experts at the ABABAB (ex. red, blue, red, blue) pattern.  This week we will investigate AABB, ABC, AABBCC, and any other patterns the children create.  Your child should be noticing patterns in the environment.  Patterning is a foundational math skill.

This week we are investigating the letter  "Mm" as in "monkey on a mountain."  The word wall words for the week are:  five, go, so, no.  We will celebrate the letter Mm on Thursday with a Micky/Minnie Mouse day.  Please send one item to school that has Mickey or Minnie Mouse on it.  If you do not have an item, please let me know.  

Hopefully your child taught you the motions for Tony Chestnut from our poetry journal.  The children are so excited when we find a word wall word in our poetry notebook. Thank you for taking the time to celebrate our beginning reading skills.


If you have a family member or close friend that is deployed, please send me his/her name and address.  Blount participates in Adopt a Troop and we would be honored to write to your service member.

Book orders for this month are going home on Monday.  Book orders are voluntary and come home once a month.  You may order on-line or send in payment (check payable to Scholastic) by Friday, September 17.  

The students will be bringing home an Innisbrook fundraiser on Tuesday.  Far away friends and family may order on-line at www.innisbrook.com with our school number being 112533.  Thank you so much for supporting our school.  

The policy at Blount is birthday invitations may be distributed at school as long as you have an invitation for every child in the classroom or an invitation for every girl or an invitation for every boy.  I will give you contact information for specific children if your party is small. 

The writing center is by far the most popular center in Room 115.  Book making is a hit and I try to find time during the day to read all of their books.  The most successful writing at this age is telling stories.  Please refer to the handout I passed out at the small group meeting on ways to help your child become a writer at home.    We always have a need for paper for our writing center.  White paper is great but so is colored paper, stickers, envelopes, stamps and anything else you think we would like to write on or with.   

Thank you supporting the learning of Room 115.  Please contact me with any questions or concerns.