First in math wall of fame

Sheriff tuffey tooth

Ruth Lilly health education center

Have your child tell you something the learned today.

Pretending we are baby teeth!

Tooth fairy came to visit to tell us about taking care of our teeth.

Mini Economy

We are off to a great start with mini economy. The children were assigned jobs for the week. They do their jobs at the end of the day and then they receive their pay for a job well done. On Friday afternoon the children will have the opportunity to visit Mrs. Catton's Kindergarten Store. They will have the opportunity to purchase from the store or they may choose to save their money until they have earned enough to purchase a more expensive item from the store. I am going to encourage saving. We got some really great items donated for the store- pencils,erasers, note pads, puzzles, books, play doh, matchbox cars, etc. Feel free to continue to send in items that you may run across when you are out shopping ( the dollar store is awesome especially after a holiday). I am really proud of how seriously the kids take their jobs!

Being paid after doing our jobs.

Using the Smartboard during math workshop!

Student ambassadors sharing a lesson on respect.

February- What's Happening

Wow! I can't believe that we are into February already. After a crazy January with snow days and delays we really have no time to waste. In language arts if your child knows all of their letters and sounds they should be working on site words and sounding out words as well as rhyme (Dr. Seuss books are great for hearing rhyme as well as poems), writing simple words by sounding out and writing the letters of the sounds they hear (do not worry about correct spelling at this point), identifying beginning, middle and ending sounds in words, and reading emergent text (remember that retelling a story, reading the pictures and reading the words are the three ways kindergarteners can read text). If your child cannot identify all of the letters of the alphabet capital and lowercase yet that needs to be their only focus. In math if your child can identify numbers 0-10 and can accurately count a set to a number they should be working on 11-20 identification and accurately counting a set to a number. If they can not accurately identify 0-10 and count a set to number they need to focus on those numbers and not worry about 11-20 at this point. We are talking about feelings, health and nutrition, President's Day, and dental health this month. We will be taking a field trip to Ruth Lilly on Thursday, February 27 to help us learn about what we can do to keep ourself healthy. More information about the field trip will be coming later in the month.