Kindergarten is in full swing in Room 113!

The children are busy making new friends and learning about our classroom routines and procedures.  Our theme for the month is "friendship."

We are working on hearing chunks of sounds in words.  Children are practicing syllabication (clapping the beats in words) and rhyming.  These skills prepare children to listen for and work with individual sounds in words to spell and decode ("sound out").

In Handwriting Without Tears, we are learning about uppercase letters.  Children have used wooden sticks to build the letters E, F, D, P, R, B in teams.  We are working on pencil grip and have begun our handwriting books.

In Lively Letters, we have been introduced to the partner lowercase letters b and p, t and d, v and f.  We will continue to work with these songs to solidify the connection between the graphemes (letter shape) and sounds.

In math, we have begun Section 1 of Everyday Math 4.  The children have been exploring materials, looking for numbers in their environment, and practicing counting.