Friday, September 11th - Welcome Back!

Hello Weckie Families and Welcome to Kindergarten!

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It has been a most AWESOME week to be a Weckie! I have had so much fun getting to know your children this week and am the most blessed teacher to get to spend my year with your children. We have been having so much fun and already the kids are soaking up everything I have been showing them like little sponges! New friendships are being formed daily, routines are being learned and I can already tell, this is going to be the best year!

We have spent a lot of time this week learning the routines of Kindergarten: how to make a line in the hallway, how to get to different places in the building, how to work at our tables, how to eat snack at our spots, how to play with the toys and then clean up, how to use scissors, how to use glue sticks, coloring practice, etc. We have been learning new songs to help us learn the days of the week, months of the year and our abc's with the sounds of the letters.

We have read several back to school books and then spent a lot of time working with the book: Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom and created our own class book about our names going up the coconut tree! If you are not familiar with the story or want to hear it again, click this link below to watch the video at home with your son or daughter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH4bBMW8eus

Another important routine of Kindergarten is our daily calendar routine. We have already begun counting the days of the school year using base-ten blocks, filling in a September calendar, learning how to check the weather and learning new songs we will sing daily at calendar time. It's pretty neat to watch the kids begin to do the calendar routine instead of Mrs. Weckstein in the next few weeks up on our interactive whiteboard.

Over the course of the next few weeks a lot of notes will be coming home. Please make sure to send your child's green folder back to school daily! I hope to see everyone at Curriculum Night next Wednesday night at 6:30pm in the old gym.

Have a fabulous three-day weekend!
Mrs. Weckstein :-)