Our First Full Week!

We have had a wonderful week in kindergarten!  I have been so impressed with how quickly everyone is getting the hang of being in school.  We have been learning a lot of new things!  We are still working on reviewing the correct way to form our letters.  A lot of children came into kindergarten knowing all of their letters, but were not making them the correct way.  That is why we review it so often in kindergarten.  We have a little saying we recite for each letter of the alphabet.  You can find the sayings I like to use HERE and use them at home with your children. 

We will continue to work on colors and color words this next week.  Most children already know how to recognize all of the colors, but we are working really hard on learning how to spell and read the color words.  We read the story "A Color of His Own," about a chameleon that is tired of changing colors everywhere he goes.  The kids picked a color for their own chameleon and decided where he could hide to be that color.  We now have them on display in our hallway. 

We also started centers this week.  Centers is a time where the children work in small groups and practice concepts we are learning in class in a more hands-on way.  This week, the students had to learn how to find their center group, find their center, do their center the right way, cooperate with their friends, listen for a signal to change centers, and clean up centers.  They are doing a wonderful job with it!  Here are some of the fun things we did this week:
 

We also had our first round of specialty classes on Friday.  We started off our morning by going to the library.  We learned how to take care of library books and met the Shelf Elf!

We also went to PE and computers...and my camera broke.  :(  So I don't have any pictures of our class doing that.

I am looking forward to one more great week before we go off track!