Kindergarten MP3 Campus

Topics:

Names, reading, writing, speaking and listening

Letters/sounds: A, a,

Sight words: a, am,

Activities:

Students are practicing writing their name with a beginning capital and remaining lower case letters, and are using their “reading finger” to read our poems. We have practiced letters, sounds, and sight words through worksheets, playdough, poems, stories, and discussions. We have also been learning the alphabet with corresponding objects/animals in sign language and have learned A-B, as well as learning helpful signs like bathroom, water, yes, no, and me too. Students have read the poem, I Am a Student (sight words: a, am) and Can You See a Rainbow?, as we work to learn and recognize sight words and practice reading skills. We are learning one another’s names with name songs and students are practicing writing their own names with correct formation. We also celebrated our names by talking about their importance and the importance of respecting other people's names. We read the books That’s Not My Name and Alma and How She Got Her Name to help encourage these discussions.

Some of the important books we have read this month include: Our Class is a Family, In Our Classroom, That's Not My Name, Alma and How She Got Her Name, The Recess Queen, Lacy Walker Nonstop Talker, The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes, and Dog's Colorful Day.

Everyone's goal for the end of the school year is to be able to correctly write their name, to know all of their letters and letter sounds, to know their kindergarten sight words, and to be able to write 2 sentences on their own. These are things that we are working towards and should be a priority at home as well. Please make sure you are really focusing on having them practice writing their name with a beginning capital and remaining lower case letters and continuing working towards knowing their letters and letter sounds, as this will help them so much with their writing as well. A great way to help kids get over that fear of writing and making mistakes is having them do free writing about their day or any topics they like and encouraging 'kindergarten writing'. Kindergarten writing is just doing their best to write down all of the sounds they are hearing in words instead of focusing on it being right or not. It's important to get comfortable making mistakes and trying to do things even when they are hard!

Topics:

Rules and procedures, getting along, getting to know each other, and how we go to school

Activities:

Kindergarteners are getting to know one another and are learning class rules, routines and how to care for materials. Some routines include: entering the room in the morning, sitting at tables, working at centers, preparing for and eating snack, recess, lining up, cleaning up and packing for home. Students have had opportunities to share their “All About Me” posters and other work with the class, and are learning to be superstar listeners and superstar speakers as they share, and listen to their classmates share. We created a chart of classroom expectations together and discussed all of they ways we can help each other learn, have fun, and stay safe.