Amy Kahofer's Kindergarten: August 2016

Friday, August 19, 2016

A New School Year

It is hard to believe school is beginning in 10 days! I have been busy getting our classroom organized and ready for 15 kindergarten students. Thatcher Brook will open its door at 7:30 and children can arrive anytime between 7:30-7:50. Breakfast is available or you can pack a simple breakfast to eat in our classroom. We are a tree-nut/peanut free room this year so please plan on snacks/breakfast accordingly. I have a busy and fun first week planned, a good nights sleep will go a long way!! Our "Specials" schedule is as follows:

Monday -Art
Tuesday -P.E.
Wednesday -Health and Music
Thursday -Library
Friday -Music and Guidance

If any changes to this schedule occur, I will let you know! To start the year, a backpack, lunchbox, snack and change of clothes is all that is needed. I will provide a "Take-Home Folder" for children, please check these daily and send back any notes to me or for the office in them as well. I will send home a paper newsletter the first week but then plan on using our class page to tell you about our week together. I look forward to a great year of learning and growing in our kindergarten class!

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100th Day of School!

We are celebrating the 100th day on Tuesday, February 6th. We will be completing all sorts of fun math and literacy activities on this day. One activity is “Sharing Collections”. Students are asked to bring in a collection of 100 items. All collections need to be back by our 100th day. Examples of items to collect are:

Pennies, crayons, beads, matchbox cars, lego’s, erasers, marshmallows, toothpicks, pebbles, noodles, paper clips, stickers, goldfish, cereal… the possibilities are endless!

All About Books

Our Animal Research Books are complete! We have included many facts about our animals, used "Kidspirartion" to organize our facts on the computer and used "Kidpix" to make diagrams with labels on the computer. We also included headings, bold print, a glossary, a table of contents page and a "Meet the Author" page. This project came together beautifully as children incorporated technology into their research and final products. We are now experts on many animals!! (and non-fiction text features!)

Adventure Play

One component of our weekly routine is Adventure Play. These games and activities invite children to challenge themselves, practice cooperation, provide opportunities to practice decision making skills, and build upon our classroom community skills.

One of our favorites is called "Car and Driver" where children are encouraged to participate in "challenge by choice". One child is the "car", and may close their eyes for the "challenge", but may open their eyes at any time "by choice". What fun it is to "drive" our "cars" around our classroom!