Super Spellers!

As you know, we are into the third term now, and summer is fast approaching! In order to help students prepare for First Grade in the Fall, we are going to begin having a weekly spelling test.

Your child has a small booklet in their backpack where I will paste their word list and then the completed spelling test. Please help your child practice spelling the words several times during the week to prepare for tests on Wednesdays. You may practice in the booklet if you like.

Some ideas for practicing spelling words and keeping it fun:

Rainbow Write – write your words with one color, then trace over with another color and a third so your words look like rainbows

Window Write – write your words with a dry-erase marker on glass surfaces in your home (windows, mirrors, etc.)

Sentence Write – write a sentence for each spelling word, or see how many spelling words you can get into one sentence!

Typing – type your words on the computer using different fonts and colors. Email them to Mrs. White so she can see your fancy words!

Online – go to https://www.spellingcity.com/FBCSKinder/ to find your spelling list and activities you can do to practice. If you are not sure which list is yours, ask Mrs. White.

Outside – write on the sidewalk with chalk, in the sand with a stick, or use objects like rocks, shells, sticks, etc. to make your words.

November 14, 2014

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!

September 19, 2014

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.

April 6, 2014

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

March 22, 2014

It’s Spring Story time with a Twist

Making bread- a little differently from little red hen

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.

September 27, 2013

Weekly Newsletters

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September 20, 2013

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September 14, 2013

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