Week 1 Kindergarten News

by | Sep 7, 2019 | Kindergarten News

La Lectura

I am very excited this first week of school. The children were so excited to know everything about what it is to be in kindergarten and were especially interested in learning new words in Spanish. They got to know the names of their classmates by doing fun activities with their names in the form of a necklace. They studied the days of the week, how to say yesterday, today and tomorrow, also the months of the year and the four seasons.

The children heard different sounds and rhythms in order to differentiate them and identify the first and final sounds.
We introduced the vowels in a fun way by singing and motioning with their hands for each letter.
A=Avión (airplane)
E= estrella (star)
I= Imán (magnet)
O= Oso (bear)
U= Uva (Grape)
We drew straight diagonal lines and curves to learn how to write the letters. This activity is an important starting point to learn the process of how to correctly form the letters.
We read the book ¡Prepárate kindergarden! ¡Allá voy! ( Look out kindergarden!, here I come! The children did a great job asking and answering questions.
We worked together to classify images, to expand their vocabulary. The images were about people, animals and school material. The children were asked to group the images according to the kind of object. (All of these exercises were done in Spanish and they did a GREAT job!)

Las matemáticas

This first week the children practiced even and odd numbers from 1 to 3, making strokes to learn how to write them. They studied what a unit is, and learned the concept of ones, as a foundation to teach them others concepts in future lessons, as tens and hundreds.
I really enjoyed working with all our returning students and our newcomers! All of them worked great and with enthusiasm.

 

History & Geography/ Science

         My robot!

What a great week and what a terrific class!  We have had so much fun getting to know one another,  exploring our classroom and learning about our school.  Our classroom theme is space and space robots . Our first field trip this year will be to OMSI  to visit the planetarium . More information to come  soon about this trip .  We’ve been working on a “My First Week of School” Space Robot book.  The kinders have had fun expressing their feelings and interests in it.  They made their own space robot out if playdough. We  began a unit on Nursery Rhymes for Social Studies.  They also learned the ¨Red¨ song.

Our weekly objectives were to:
• get to know one another
• review rules and procedures for our classroom and school
• practice using and putting away our supplies and following directions.
•  listen to and understand “Roses are Red” and “Ring Around the Rosie”

              ¨Ring Around the Rosie¨

 

English Sight Words of the Week

me, red, I, a, can, am