Ready for Reading!
Parents, your child should have come home with an envelope last Friday containing a book and a reading log. I am hoping that each child will make a habit of spending 20 minutes every day reading. These folders should be returned on Thursdays so a new book can be sent home each Friday.
20 minutes may seem daunting, but never fear! It does not have to be all at once, and it does not have to be only your child reading to you. In fact, children learn many skills that will help them learn to read better just by listening to you read to them.
The 20 minutes also does not have to be only the book sent from school. Your child should be able to read this book to you at least once during the week, but they do not have to read it every day. Please let me know if a book I send seems way too hard or easy for your child. We Give Books is a nice website to read books online with a free sign-up. They have many different levels of books as well.
Please do not feel like you must log every single book or every single minute exactly. The reading log is as much for YOU as it is for me. The important thing is that your child is making it a habit to spend time reading and enjoying books every day, not that something is written in the reading log.
Reading Rockets has some good tips for building language skills at home as well. If you would like any additional tips or ideas for helping your child at home, just ask!
Introducing Bubbles and Kermit!
Here in Kindergarten we have two little friends who help cheer us up when we are sad or missing Mom and Dad. They also enjoy listening to stories and hearing children count and say their ABCs. Kermit the frog lives in Kindergarten A and loves giving hugs. Bubbles the fish lives in Kindergarten B and enjoys snuggling.
Each of the students in Kindergarten A will have a chance to bring Kermit home for a weekend, and each child in Kinder B will get to bring home Bubbles. The friends will be sent home in a bag along with a notebook where you can record the adventures you have with them over the weekend. We will share these adventures at school each Monday.
Cayman Flower Projects… Wow
A job well done. The kindlers presented a wide array of Caymanian flowers and spoke about their projects with enthusiasm…. Makes me so proud. Take a look
It’s Spring Story time with a Twist
Once upon a time there was a very enthusiastic kindergarten teacher who wanted to open up her kindlers to the world of storytelling.
Well how exactly do I do that?
Make it as real to the kindlers as possible.
This week we read Little Red Hen.
Not exactly a spring themed book but it falls in the fairy tale category ( not really- but go with me). The kids learnt from this story that hardwork has sweet rewards-literally.
Enter my bread maker. As usual there are no pictures of them eating the bread because like little red hen, they ate it all.
Next Up… Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens.
This clever tale with a fairy tale formula, teaches this kids about the various parts of the plant that we eat. Interesting approach to teach kids about the edible parts of plants.
I love this story.It makes me laugh every time.
Weekly Newsletters
Hey Parents!
Have a great Weekend
The latest Newsletter is here Curious K’s Dec 2
Past Newsletters
Curious K’s Sept30 is ready for your reading pleasure. Enjoy
Newsletter for September 23
Very hungry catepillar kebabs!
We have been reading “A Very Hungry Caterpillar” as part of our author study. It was a story the children were very familiar with and after reading it through a few more times, we thought about the story in relation to bears. What would this story sound like if it were about a very hungry bear?
More on that later. Cooking class then was to make a fruit salad with all the fruits that the very hungry caterpillar ate. This was a great opportunity to expose the kids to fruits they had never tried in the safety of a bite sized piece. They enjoyed skewering the fruit along the kebab sticks and nibbling away. Here are a few photos.
Hart is contemplating which fruit he would like to use next
Kai digging in. He lost his toot shortly after
Kylie all done with her kebab. Aiden and Hannah still going. Almost time to eat.
Weekly newsletter September 16
Here is the newsletter for the upcoming week.
I have also put the take home book as well for easy access. Sorry about the mix up with the photocopying last week. peg the hen
* I will post the memory verse on the blog so check back
Stars of the week
The students are randomly selected (I plug the names into a online name pick generator and press go).
I also thought I would amend it so that we have a boy and a girl being selected each week. as of (September 16)
Week of September 9th
Emma Kelley
“My favorite color is Purple.”
Week of September 16
The two names coincidentally that popped up were:
Daniel Cooper Abriann Cooper
“I practice jump rope everyday.” “I like dolls. I have a ton.”
Week of September 23rd
John Mark Lewis Hannah Kang
“I like to draw.” “School is fun.”
Week of September 27th
Abby Stubblefield Ljay Garcia Ebanks
“I like my friends.” “I like to play.”
Week of October 7th
Hunter Babb Annabelle Olynik