September fun!

During math we traced our names

 with scented markers. Next we cut

them a part, mixed up the pieces,

put them back in order 

and glued them onto a strip of paper.

Next we sorted to find out how many

 letters are in our names.

Jenna Nicloe has the longest!

 

 

 

 

We made our first "Thinking Map."

We defined what kindergarten will be!

 

 

The next day the children

made their own cirlce map

about kindergarten.

 

This past week our theme was

I AM SPECIAL!

We decorated mirrors and painted

our faces to glue onto our mirrors.

 

We used beads, feathers, foam stickers,

 flowers and pom-pom balls

to decorate our mirrors.

 

For cooking we made "Friendship Fruit."

Since the weather was 100 degrees

on Friday and we do not have air conditioning.

This was a yummy refreshing snack!

 

Friday afternnoon I introduced

"How to get your book box."

We have two mini books we wrote

over the last two weeks,

 a Brown Bear mini book that the children colored and our poerty journal

with three poems in it to get us started.

 

 

My kiddos did such a great job

choosing a reading spot.

 They were so excited to start reading!

Next week we will work on what

to do while reading,

the different ways you can read a book.

 (pictures, words, retell)

 

One of the read alouds I chose this

week was the Alphabet Mystery

by Audrey Wood.

The children loved it!

 

The letters in the Alphabet Mystery

solve the mystery

by flying on magic pencils.

 My friends at Weaver Elementary

shared this idea with me last year and

I just had to make it this year!

One thing we found out is that the children searching

for all the letters in their names takes a while.

So do this in small group or with a parent volunteer. Not all at the same time with 24 kiddos!

(You may need a drink after!)

We had to do some creative letter making as you can see in this photo we ran out of vowels so we turned the letter L into and i by chopping off the bottom.

Whatever works :)