A Little Insight!

If your child is anything like mine, who also just started kindergarten, he doesn't explain things very well! :-)  So to help give you a better understanding of what's going on this week, here is a rundown of some of what we've done:

Stories
We've read several stories this week:

• "Animals in the Park".  Ask your child what genre this book is (it's an ABC book!).
• "Library Mouse".  This one is about a mouse named Sam.  Ask your child what Sam's does in the library (reads lot of books and then writes some of his own!)
• "The Kissing Hand".  You should have gotten a picture with your child's handprint and a poem about this one!
• "Anno's Counting Book". This is a math book with scenes in it.  Ask your child what they drew on their scene of 2 page today. (They were really awesome!)
• "The Ugly Duckling".  Ask your child to tell you what is special about the ugly duckling!

Phonics

• We've talked about the letters A-D so far.  Ask your child if he/she can do the letter chant for those letters!
• We have been working with the word "I".  We've practiced writing it (not on paper yet!) and using it in a sentence.  Have your child complete this sentence: I have __________.
• We've been reading poems and counting how many words are in the lines.  We've done: Jack and Jill, Mary Wore a Red Dress, and Wee Willie Winkie.

Math

In math yesterday we used our math tools for the first time!  They got to explore with them for a while and then we put the number tiles in order from 1-5.  After counting them we found the number 3 and the kids showed me what three was with their square inch tiles!

And today, after talking about the scenes in "Anno's Counting Book", we all drew our own scenes of 2.  There were some pretty creative drawings!