Kindergarten

Miss Krista’s Kindergarten Newsletter; February 3, 2012

by Krista 02.03.2012 Curriculum

Hello Kindergarten Families! Thank you to all the families who drove to the playhouse field trip. Please remember to turn in the $5 for the tickets if you have not done so already. Also, I would like to say thank you to the families dropping off at the door in the morning. VALENTINE’S DAY: As [...]

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Miss Krista’s Newsletter; January 10, 2012

by Krista 01.10.2012 Curriculum

Welcome back to school! I hope that everyone had a great holiday break! As we get back into our rhythm, the students have been working on strengthening their self-help skills. This includes many things in the classroom. During snack and lunch, children are expected to open and close their food containers as well as open [...]

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Miss Krista’s Kindergarten Newsletter: 11-11-11

by Krista 11.11.2011 Curriculum

5, 4, 3, 2, 1…. BLASTOFF!!!! We began our thematic unit on Outer Space this past week in kindergarten. By using thematic lessons in the classroom, we are able to take a large topic, such as space, and incorporate it into every subject area. In social development, we transformed our dramatic play center into a [...]

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Miss Krista’s Kindergarten Newsletter: September 26, 2011

by Krista 09.27.2011 Curriculum

MATH WORKSHOPS in Kindergarten: For our math curriculum, we set up daily math stations. During this time, children rotate freely between various math activities. On average, three new math activities are introduced each week. Lately, we have been working on numerals and creating a set. We have done this with several different activities. One of [...]

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Miss Krista’s Kindergarten Newsletter

by Krista 09.14.2011 Curriculum

What happens during Morning Meeting? Morning meeting takes place every day at 9am. During this time, we start off by greeting our friends. We may greet them using a different language to say hello, or tossing a ball to our friends. This helps us to learn everyone’s names, and to say hello by looking at [...]

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Miss Krista’s Kindergarten Newsletter; September 6, 2011

by Krista 09.06.2011 Curriculum

It has been an exciting first full week of kindergarten. We started the school year by studying the book “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.” Most of the children are very familiar with this story. We used this popular story to play several alphabet games while working on letter recognition. Many of us participated in creating a [...]

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A Summer Walk On Our Nature Trail

by Steve 06.17.2011 Camp

What would summer camp be without a chance to be outside running, playing, and exploring? The wildflowers are just starting to bloom, and the weather these past few days has been beautiful! After lunch our kindergarten campers went looking for lions, tigers, and bears, oh my!

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Miss Krista’s Kindergarten Newsletter: May 17, 2011

by Krista 05.18.2011 Curriculum

The end of the school year is quickly approaching. Although summer is very near, we have a lot of exciting things still in store for our kindergartners. We finished learning about chicks and eggs last week. We had an exciting unit learning about oviparous animals. We even had 5 chicks

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