Your children are curious, creative and kind and I am so excited to be starting this year of learning and growing with them!
I hope your student told you about at least one or two of the fun activities we did, and that they were not too exhausted by Friday afternoon.
If they were, don’t worry! It is completely normal for them to need time to adjust to the new routine of school! It is also normal for your child not
to want to talk about their kindergarten day. For some, it is overwhelming to think about what they did since we do so much.
A few tips for talking to your Kindergartener about their day at school:
1. Start first with recess. Ask what they did, who they played with.
2. Ask specific questions such as “What was your favorite station activity?”, “Did your teacher read you any books?”, or “What did you choose
to play for choice time”.
3. Look at the class blog together and talk together about what is happening in the pictures.
In case there were holes in your student’s report, here is a recap of what we were up to in class last week…
Gingerbread Man Loose In The School! | Celebrating Dot Day! |
Important Safety Request!One of the students in our classroom has a serious peanut and tree nut allergy. We read the book Allie The Allergic Elephant this week and watched a Brainpop Jr. video about allergies to help train the students to be safe. Please help us keep our classroom nut free by sending nut-free snacks to school with your child. | Important Dates...
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Family Homework!
- Log on to our classroom website with your student and go to our Class Blog! page. Look at the photo with your student (there are lots of words that you can read later if you want to) and talk about what has been happening in class. If you feel comfortable doing so, leave a comment about our learning for our class to read.
- Go to the Friend Photos page. This will eventually be where your student's electronic kindergarten portfolio will live, but while the portfolios are being constructed it is housing our class photo page. (password will be sent home on Monday). Look at the pictures with your student and practice names. Ask your student to point out friends. If your child does not feel like she/he knows anyone yet, role play things he/she could say to initiate a friendship. Let me know if you ever want some help with this - I love to help friends become friends!
- If you are on Twitter, follow our class learning @msCLqae. I will tweet when I update my blog each Sunday.
If you have any questions, please always feel free to e-mail me at [email protected].