September 3-6

Monday, September 2 Labor Day No School	Tuesday, September 3 Literacy Phonemic Awareness:  Rhyme Time with Picture Cards Read Aloud: Now I’m Big Skill:  Compare/Contrast Writing:  Letter K Math  Recognize, Count, and Write the Number 1
Wednesday, September 4 Literacy Phonemic Awareness:  “Blowing Bubbles” (rhyming) Read Aloud:  Mice Squeak, We Speak Skill:  Compare/Contrast Vocabulary:  Size Words Writing:  Letter L Math  Recognize, Count, and Write Number 2	Thursday, September 5 Literacy Phonemic Awareness:  Rhyming Words with Picture Cards Read Aloud:  Let’s Play Skill:  Compare/Contrast Math  Recognize, Count, and Write Number 3
Friday, September 6 Literacy Read Aloud:  My Many Colored Days Skill:  Feelings Kindergarten Benchmark Assessment:  Identify Something that Makes You Happy and Something that Makes You Sad Math  Recognize, Count, and Write Number 4	Notes from the Teacher: *Remember to sign up for our kindergarten blogs! *Skills we are working on:  Counting and number recognition 0-10, upper/lower letter recognition, writing our first names, and simple graphs. *Please reinforce at home what is being taught at school by encouraging your child to show you how to write the letters and numbers we are working on! *A Friendly Reminder to:  Check Take Home folders nightly and Return to School. J * Mrs. Jenison, Miss Maas and Ms. Markwardt

Kindergarten News Aug. 26-30

Monday, August 26 Literacy Read Aloud:  The Kissing Hand Craft:  Handprints Writing:  Noodle Names Math  Graphing Activity:  How many letters in your name? Independent Work:  Chrysanthemum Activity Large Group: Create Class Graph	Tuesday, August 27 Literacy Read Aloud: Owen Craft:  Watermelon Craft Writing:  Names for Watermelons Math  Graphing Activity:  Favorite Food Tally and Graph
Wednesday, August 28 Literacy Read Aloud:  Chicka, Chicka, Boom Boom! Activity:  Letter Count Writing:  Yarn Names Math  Graphing Activity:  What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?	Thursday, August 29 Literacy Read Aloud:  Revisit Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom! Craft:  Palm Trees Math  Graphing Activity:  What are you wearing?
Friday, August 30 Literacy Read Aloud:  Revisit Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom! Skill/Craft:  First Name Sponge Painting Math  Graphing Activity:  Rootin Tootin Round Up	Notes from the Teacher: *It was so nice meeting most of you at Back to School Conferences!  Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have questions and comments throughout the year! *Remember to sign up for our kindergarten blogs! *Skills we are working on:  Counting and number recognition 0-10, upper/lower letter recognition, writing our first names, and simple graphs. * Mrs. Jenison, Miss Maas and Ms. Markwardt

September Snack and Specials Calendar

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1	2 No School Labor Day	3 Celebrate Kinslie’s B-day 6-17 Art	4 Celebrate Ava’s B-day 7-31 Music	5 Celebrate Lila’s B-day6-4 PE/TAG	6 Jamarria Art	7
8	9 Damian D Music	10 Lucas PE/TAG Poetry Notebook	11 Zack Art	12 Kendra Music	13 Caleb PE/TAG	14
15	16 Briseida Art	17 Callum Music Poetry Notebook	18 Clementine PE/TAG	19 Will Art	20 Happy Birthday Alondra and Jackson Music	21
22	23 Evie PE/TAG	24 Elsie Art Poetry Notebook	25 Jadyn C Music	26 PE/TAG	27 Art	28
29	30 No School Teacher In-Service

August Snack and Specials Calendar

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21 Conferences 10-6	22 Mrs. Jenison PE/TAG	23 Celebrate Vanessa’s B-day 8-20 Art	24
25	26 Celebrate Jadyn J’s B-day 8-9 Music	27 Celebrate Damian T’s B-day 8-11 PE/TAG	28 Happy Birthday Jack! Art	29 Happy Birthday Sierra! Music	30 Celebrate Derek’s B-day 8-1 PE/TAG	31