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Oct 2, 2026

Dear Parents,

Dear Parents,

It was a very exciting week in Kindergarten this week during apple week!

Morning Meeting- We have a morning message to outline each day's activities. We had a greeting each day. We had pass the apple greeting,  Our shares this week was: Would you rather have fresh apple slices or apple pie? Our activities have been: Go Danny's apple orchard, Wiggle Wednesday, 

Apple Day- We made apple sauce! We started the day cutting up apples with a fun gadget that peels the apple, cores it and slices it all in one crank. Mr. Cook even had a turn! Then our centers were all apple themed. We made a pot hat just like Johnny appleseed wore. We made apple people for fine motor skills (tracing, cutting and folding paper), We read apple books. It was lots of fun! In the afternoon we got together with Mrs. McGuires class and ate our applesauce and watched a story about Johnny Appleseed.

Math-Our new unit is on sorting. We started the week by sorting apples (big, medium, small) and by color. We looked at some every day objects (a clear cup, a coffee cup with a lid and a little left over coffe inside), a paper party cup and a paper plate.  I asked everyone which 3 have something the same and which one is different. The children saw there were different possibilities. The 3 cups can go together and the plate is different. the cup with the coffee in it is different because its the only one with a lid or its the only one with something inside.  Someone said the clear cup is the one that is different because you can see through it.  Then we went on to work in our books on this very idea of sorting by an attribute. I took small groups to work with while the rest of the class eitehr worked on an apple roll and cover game or a worksheet putting apple trees in number order.

Writing: We wrote in our journals about our weekends. This week everyone labeled their pictures with beginning sounds and ending sounds. Some even heard more sounds in between. We also made an apple book that is in their book box in the classroom.

Being a Reader Program-In this program we listen to good books and poems and discuss some aspect of it with our partner. This week we listened to Kipper's A-Z. Kipper and his friend get a box and want to put insects in it. The first one they find is A-ant.  You would not believe it, but at that very moment an ant was crawling on one of the student's pants! We all decided it had to be the ant from the story! At different stopping points in the story, everyone discussed what happened so far. This is building their reading comprehension. We also discussed their favorite part. Throughout the week we worked on 4 letter sounds. We also sang and then read on a poster the words to 2 poems: I'm a Little Teapot and  The itsy bitsy spider.  We learned that all words have spaces between them. We also learned our first 3 words (is, the, and). We put them in our marble notebooks. Next week I will have the students take them home to review with you.
 
Handwriting- We are using a new program this year called Handwriting without tears. It is a multi-sensory approach to handwriting. ​This week we learned how to form the letters P,B,R,N,M. We practiced with skywriting, wet/dry/try on chalk slates and finally in their handwriting books.
 
 Phonics- This week we worked on rhyming words,​ hearing beginning sounds, ending sounds, adding an ending like er, iest, ing and then taking it off of a word and hearing what word is left. We counted how many words are in an oral sentence. 
 
Sight Words and High Frequency Words: These are the words that appear in early readers. Some of them can be decoded ( ex. can)  while other words just need to be memorized (ex. was).  This week's words were: is, the, and

 Independent Work-The children work in 3 centers each week. During this time, I can work with a small group on a skill or individual students with assessments. This week we worked on handwriting, letter recognition and read to self.

Science/Social Studies

​This week the science was all about apples, the apple tree life cycle and apple parts.  We read apple books. We watched a disney short film about Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman). We read the story: The Season's of Arnolds Apple Tree. We discussed the 4 seasons. We also learned about how an apple tree grows and what it looks like in each season. Then everyone made a project of an apple tree's life cycle from seed to seedling to tree and tree with apples.

We finished our week on Friday with a Buddy Class gathering. Our buddy class is Miss Andrew's class. Everyone was assigned a buddy. We will get together with our big buddies every month for a school wide activity.This first gathering was just a meet and greet to get to know each other.

We​ had a great week in Kindergarten!  

Sincerely,

Mrs. Fishelman