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 Leaves falling from a tree

Nov 3rd, 2026

 

Dear Parents,

The past two weeks have been exciting and fun in Kindergarten! Our highlight of course was the Halloween parade and party. The kids had so much fun!

Morning Meeting- We have a morning message to outline each day's activities. We had a greeting each day. Our share last week was our favorite candy. We greeted each other like bats, monsters, with a wtch cackle and a ghost sound. On Halloween, we went on a ghost hunt. I hid paper ghosts around the room with sight words on them. I put on the music to ghost busters and everyone found ghosts and brought them back to the rug. We read the words. It was good practice and super fun!

Halloween themed work: We learned about bats. We read fiction and non fiction books about them. We made a project of a bat and glued some facts about them on their wings. We listened to a story called pumpkin Jack. Then we carved our pumpkin and we are observing how it decomposes in a rubbermaid box. We are recording what we see each day. We listened to the story, Room on the Broom, about a witch and some animals that ask for a ride. The children worked on comprehension as they told which animals went on her broom first, second, third and fourth. Then they made a witch puppet and glued the animals on the broom in that order. 

Math-We finished the unit on greater than and less than. We learned what one more than a number is. We also finished the lesson on 2D and 3D shaped. Everyone can tell the difference between the two. They also learned some attributes for each 3D shape and their names.

Writing: We wrote in our journals about our weekends. This week everyone either labeled their pictures with beginning sounds, middle  and ending sounds or they tried writing a sentence. We also had a few Halloween label it pages. It's good practice for them to write as many sounds in the words as they can. We also started a new activity called "Write the Room."  There are themed pictures hanging around the room. This week it was Halloween pictures. Everyone has a paper with the same pictures in a thumbnail size and they have to write the word next to it, hearing as many sounds as they can.

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 heard some songs (The More We Get Together and The Ants Go Marching). We learned the sight word My in the song. We also picked out rhyming words.
 
Handwriting- We are using a new program this year called Handwriting without tears. It is a multi-sensory approach to handwriting. ​The past 2 weeks we learned how to form the letters C,O, G, Q. We also worked on these letter sounds. One activity the class loves is sorting objects that begin with the letter sounds of the week.
 
 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 worked on breaking words apart by syllables and blending syllables to make words. We counted how many words are in an oral sentence.  We also practiced the letter sounds for every letter including the short vowel sounds.
 
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: like, my, are

 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

​In science, we worked on seasons, weather changes. We went on a walk outside and noticed the changing color of the leaves. Then we made a fall tree with tissue paper leaves. We made breeze buddies to hang outside. This is a decorative piece of cardboard with streamers hanging from it. This helps the kids notice when it is windy outside.

In Social Studies we read a new magazine about laws.

We​ had a great few weeks in Kindergarten!  

Sincerely,

Mrs. Fishelman