Our First Week of Kindergarten

After you enjoyed your Boo Hoo Breakfast, our day started with a WOW assembly held in the dining room, featuring The KTG Musical Entertainment group. It was awesome and we all totally enjoyed it.
Most of Monday was spent teaching rituals and routines, practicing a Fire Drill, Tornado Drill and touring the school. On Tuesday, we started our day with our Skills Block. During this time all the children practice reading and sounding out each other’s name along with a Letter Name and Sound song. During Reader's Workshop we heard and "read" Nursery Rhymes and other poems.
During our Writer’s Workshop Mrs. Meissner read the story The Night before Kindergarten by Natasha Wing. The students were asked to think about what they did the night before Kindergarten. After turning and talking with each other, the students were asked to go to the tables and draw and write about what they did the night before Kindergarten. The children were also introduced to our “Star Books”, Caps for Sale, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, and Where the Wild Things Are. The children will hear these books several times this month.
After reading these books the children were asked to retell their favorite part with pictures and words. The students shared their work front and center in the “Share Chair”
In Math Workshop the children were able to explore with our manipulatives.
Each child used interlocking cubes to count out the letters in their name. We discussed and created patterns with our colored shapes. Calendar Math was also introduced. We could hardly wait to see what next week will be like. Thank you for entrusting your children to us.

Awesome Orientation!

Welcome to Kindergarten!
It was such a pleasure to meet so many of you at Orientation on Friday! We are looking forward to getting to know your child very well in the coming months. We will be communicating often in these first few days and weeks, as there is so much new business to take care of. Please make sure you have filled out and returned ALL forms that were sent home with your orientation packet. It is very important for us to have the information for our classroom records and for the school’s records.
If you have any questions please email or jot us a note in your child’s Home-School Folder. We look forward to an exciting year! :)

Kindergarten Supply List 2009-2010

Each Kindergartner should bring the following items to school:
Every student needs a backpack (No rolling backpacks - space limitations)
• Please purchase plain-colored materials (no designs)
• Please do NOT label individual items with your child’s name (except art shirt)
Supplies
• 2 plain (solid colored) spiral notebooks (1 subject; wide ruled)
• 4 plain (solid colored) duotang folders with prongs and pockets on each side
• 1 pack of Crayola markers
• 1 pack of Crayola colored pencils
• 1 box of 24 Crayola crayons
• 3 glue sticks – boys
• 1 large liquid glue - girls
• 1 package of gallon-sized Ziploc bags – girls
• 1 package sandwich-sized Ziploc baggies – boys
• 1 package of copy paper
• 2 packages of baby wipes
• 1 oversized shirt for art (old shirt from Mom or Dad will work)
• 1 bottle of liquid soap
• 1 box of tissues
• 1 bottle of waterless hand sanitizer
• 2 PRIMARY composition journals by Mead

Welcome to Kindergarten

Welcome to Mrs. Lankford and Mrs. Meissner’s new Kindergarten classroom blog. Our school theme this year is "Orchestrating a Symphony of Student Success." The year will be about experiencing life through the moves of music. Kindergarten will keep it simple as our little ones boot scoot and boogie into school on a Country beat.
We look forward to sharing with ya’ll our weekly experiences!


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