Mt. Horeb School

 

 

 

Welcome to Mt. Horeb and to our Kindergarten Class! This will be a wonderful year of new beginnings and new adventures. We will learn, grow and build friendships. We will also spend much time fostering social and emotional learning. Thank you for sharing your children with us and entrusting us with their growth!

Feel free to reach out to me any time. You can email me at  mfishelman@warrentboe.org 

or you can call the school and leave me a voicemail at ext.  5461

 

 

This week we  will work on the following:

Math-length and height. We will look at objects and compare using the words longer, shorter and taller, shorter.

 

In Being a Writer -This is our formal writing program. The format of the program is to listen to stories, discuss the story,  make a connection to the story, write about the story and finally share our writing.  This week's story is The School Book.  Everyone will discuss what the kids in the story do, what they do in school and then write about it in a picture.

 

Being a Reader Program-This program is our reading program. We will work in the large group to hear stories and poems read and modeled for us. We will focus on letters, sounds and phonics. We will work on handwriiting, vocab words and high frequency words. Eventually as we get closer to December we will begin small group reading. This week the story is called The Alphabet.  We will work on matching upper and lowercase letters. We will work in independent work centers. During this time we will read books to ourselves and we will play with a variety of letter games. We will also listen to and sing some songs and poems. Then we will pick out the rhyming words.

 

 

Heggerty Phonics- This is a ten minute phonics drill that has the kids practicing listnening for sounds and manipulating words around. We will: supply rhyming words, listening for beginning sounds in words, listening for ending sounds in words, taking away the first word of a compound word to see what word is left, changing the first word of a compound word to change the word entirely., counting  the number of words in a sentence.

 

 

In Science, we will work on colors and mixing colors again. We will listen to Mounse Paint. then we will mix primary colors in a ziploc bag to see what happens. We will finish the week making a rainbow.

 

Your partner in educating your children,

Meredith Fishelman