Kindergarten

Better beware!

Skeletons and bats, zombies and black cats (and more!) have inhabited our room these last two weeks, and Halloween poetry, stories, and art activities have occupied our time.  The children made spooky skeletons by tracing and cutting their own hands and feet and can now name numerous bones in their own bodies.  Each student has written a Halloween book based on Eric Carle’s Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?   They listened to Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and other stories in which one’s imagination conjures up all sorts of frightening things.  In the dark, eyes closed, listening to “In the Hall of the Mountain King” by Edward Grieg, each child imagined his or her own wild thing and then drew and wrote about these terrific creations!  We ended our week with a rollicking Halloween parade, assembly (where we recited two poems for the entire student body – talk about scary!!) and party back in our classroom.  Thanks to all parents who helped out!

Mountain Day was a great event.  Along with Grades 1-3, short but strong kindergarten legs hiked up the trail at Kennedy Park where they enjoyed a variety of games and activities, had a picnic lunch, and then hiked back down again.  The weather was on the cold side and rainy at times, but  we all had a great time nonetheless.

In handwriting, we’ve completed learning the proper formation of all numerals.  The class has done well with this, and very few numbers are reversed.  Another handwriting goal is using a correct and comfortable pencil grip, and everyone is on their way to achieving this.  Next week we will begin letters.  In math, we’ve continued to work with patterns, learning dot patterns and also Halloween voice patterns. Fun!

Now November is here.  Our skeletons will disappear and a new unit will begin in the next few days!

Andrea