So much fun!

It was great seeing many of you at Parent Information Night last week.  Please remember to send back the "You're the Expert" form that was at the back of the packet.  Thanks to those of you who have sent them back in to me.

We have been moving right along learning letters and sounds!  Each week you will receive information about the letters/formation.   We have been working on printing the lowercase letters and once we've gone through all 26 will then work on the uppercase.  So far we have learned t,f,b,m, and n!  On this day, we counted the letters in our names and graphed them!  Some people have really LONG names!

We have also been counting away in kindergarten.  Number poems have been helping the kids print the numbers.  We are also working on one to one correspondence.  We've been playing partner games and dice games to help us with the formation and identification.

We've also done a couple of "Open Circles" (a social competency program designed to help create a sense of community in our class, we talk about how to show respect, care about others, be safe, listening skills, body language and cooperation to name a few topics.)  We've talked about "Double Ds" when something is dangerous and destructive, you should let an adult know or when you can just use your words.  We have also talked about being calm and some breathing that we can do to help us if we are feeling angry or upset (balloon breathing and flower breathing, ask your child to show you!)

We had a very exciting program called Ocean World!  We got to touch live ocean animals!  Everyone was so brave...some of the sea creatures were a little intimidating!