Dot Day

Hello everyone,

I am so excited to be celebrating Dot Day with your children next week. This is a project inspired and created by child author and illustrator Peter Reynolds. Reynolds has written and illustrated eight books independently and illustrated other author's works throughout his career. Reynold's goal in writing these stories is to encourage and support the creativity and talent that he, as do I, believes exists in each student.

On Friday we will be celebrating this ideal by reading and re-reading some of Reynolds work and partaking in some dot related activities. Students will create their very own dot math manipulatives and use them in math workshop, we will create our own dot stories in writing, and have both small and whole group discussions about the books Ish and The Dot.


We will be documenting and sharing this celebration via the blog so that you can all share in the experience. I have also included a link to his website so that you can explore as well if you wish. This celebration will mark the end to our first author study in kindergarten, we will be following with Gail Gibbons and David Shannon. I will ask students to wear dots on Thursday night, but this is not mandatory, we will have plenty of our own dots to decorate!

http://www.peterhreynolds.com/meet.html
Ms. Davison

Writing Workshop

Hello again,

You may have noticed at school that there are some great stories hanging in the hallway! We have been working on retelling stories we read and sharing stories of our own.  Authors we are currently studying in writing are Mo Willems, Lois Ehlert, David Shannon and Chris Raschka. We are focusing on these authors because they, like us, use illustrations and few words to share their stories. Students have also been taking an active role in our echo alphabet time. This is a time where we work on letter recognition and letter sound.

Ms. Davison

Math Workshop

Hello everyone,

Every day we have three main workshops for reading, writing, and math. The students have been transitioning into these stations wonderfully every day! Here are some snaps of our recent work in math workshop. We have been focusing on writing numbers, counting by ones, counting by twos, sorting, and classifying shapes! Many of these activities can be easily re-created at home if you are looking to squeeze in some extra practice. Enjoy, your children are working very hard and doing a fabulous job!

Ms. Davison

Snaps of the First Two Days

Hello everyone!

Here are some snaps of our first couple days. We have been working hard and creating some fantastic  patterns, stories, games and friends. Welcome to kindergarten, we are having lots of fun!

Making Friends

Hello Everyone,

I hope these first couple of days were as wonderful for you as they were for us! This week we spent time getting to know each other and the school around us. We will continue this throughout the week.

This week we have had a theme of making new friends. We have been reading stories such as Chrysanthemum  by Kevin Henkes and David Goes to School by David Shannon to help us understand all of these new rules and relationships.

Tonight or at some point this week it would be great if you could have a discussion with your child about friendships and school. (Not that you aren't already) Tell them about some of your friends and why they are an important part of your life. Or share some of your own first days of school stories.

Here's to new friends!

Specials Schedule

Hello Families,

I hope you are all enjoying the final days of summer, it is gorgeous out there. I wanted to share the specials schedule with you all. Please note that we will have gym on the very first day, so be sure to wear some gear you can move in! I can't wait to see you all, only four more days!

Ms. Davison


Mondays: Gym

Tuesdays: Art

Wednesdays: Gym

Thursdays: Library

Fridays: Music

Lemonade Meet and Greet

Hello Everyone!

It was so wonderful to meet so many of you today. I know we are going to have a great year together. We had a lot of fun making new friends, doing art, playing with our car garage, and making patterns. Here are some snaps of today's introduction, if you have not yet given me your technology permission form please try to have that for me next Wednesday. See you next week!

Ms. Davison