What a crazy week! We have never had 2 days of school canceled because of heat. The teachers were at school on Tuesday and Wednesday working together to plan things for the year.It was super hot so I am so glad the children did not have to endure it! It was wonderful to feel the cool breeze come through on Thursday. Hopefully the hot weather is over and we can enjoy the fall temperatures.
Our theme next week is colors. We will practice reading color words,
read books about colors and do some projects. During science, we will do our first "experiment". The children will be working with lemonade and fruit punch. We will make a hypothesis, conduct an experiment, record our data, and interpret our results. Kindergarten students love to be scientists! We will also continue to practice the Daily 5 skill of "read to self" and be introduced to "work on writing".
In math we will be exploring patterning, counting, and one to one correspondence. The students will be introduced to several games too as we begin to prepare for our math work stations. Eventually the students will be able to play games independently, or with a partner, while I work with small groups of students on reteaching or enrichment.
Next week
we will also start practicing how our morning centers work and start learning
how to rotate through them. We still have many procedures to learn
before we become independent workers.
As you know the May Watts Orientation had to be rescheduled. It is now on Wednesday, Sept. 18. I look forward to seeing you there. Hope you can make it.
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I am looking forward to the cooler weather this weekend. Hope you get to go out and enjoy it!
