6 Simple Things

Here's what is making me smile this week...

1. Students being able to sign their names in Sign Language.
2. Asking great questions to get to know more about our Student of the Day.
3. Students finding sight words in our classroom library books, on signs around the school, and on papers that get sent home.
4. Counting by 10's during calendar time.
5. Greeting each other in different languages each morning
6. Being fortunate enough to go to two different workshops this week to continue to better myself as an educator.

Here are some pictures of the students enjoying their time at recess:

Sight Word Practice

We have been busy in Kindergarten!  We have learned every letter in the alphabet and are spending our time this week reviewing the letters.  Students have the opportunity to play a variety of educational games and participate in learning activities.

In addition to reviewing letters, we are also continuing to learn and review our sight words.  The word for the week is 'see.'  To help the students review the words, we have been playing a game called "Roll & Record."  Here are a few pictures of students reviewing some sight words:

What tools, games or activities do you use to practice sight words?

Work Stations

We have recently started going to stations in our classroom (Thank you Debbie Diller!).  Students get to go to two different stations for 15 minutes each.  The stations will continually change, however, this week we are working on the computers, creating words with magnetic letters, alphabet puzzles, reading to self, and a letter match game.  Here is a picture that the students use to know where they are headed:

Students are working hard and are learning a lot!  Eventually, I will be pulling students to work in a small group setting.  Below are pictures of students working during stations. What is your child's favorite station? 

Six Simple Things That Make me Smile

Every Friday I like to reflect over the previous week and remember those moments that made me smile.  I decided to share my reflections as many of them include moments from our classroom.  So here they are...my 6 simple things that made me smile this week:

1. Having an amazing turnout of parents and students for Back to School Night.
2. Mya recognizing our sight words in a book from our classroom library.
3. Starting stations and the students doing a great job moving from each one.
4. Students ending the day on the red and being so proud of themselves.
5. Getting a McDonald's Diet Coke after a long school day.
6. Caleb asking a great question during Writer's Workshop.

What 6 simple things made you smile this week?


Here are a few pictures that were taking during Stations:

Back to School Night

Back to School Night will be September 13 from 5:30-8:00pm.  You will learn more information about our blog, classroom procedures, and see what your child has been learning! Hope to see you there!