First Days of Kindergarten 2016!

Kindergarten Connection

Mrs. Cota's Class

Charlotte Central School

WE TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES
WE TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER
WE TAKE CARE OF THIS PLACE

 

Welcome to our classroom blog!

The children and I will post weekly about our classroom learning and play experiences. The blog will also keep you informed of important CCS dates and events.

Highlights of the Week

We had a great week! The children are quickly learning classroom routines and how to engage as a respectful and productive community of learners.  Furthermore, the children are so enthusiastic about learning how to read, write and work with numbers.  We are going to have a very successful year learning and playing together in Kindergarten!  

Literacy Highlights

We are already on our way to becoming super readers and writers.  Our focus this week was on reading and writing our names, reading the alphabet, making connections between letters and sounds, rhyming, counting syllables, and reading together with predictable texts. 

Math Highlights

Our focus this week was on oral counting, using our math hands, working with five frames, naming shapes and extending patterns.  We also had multiple opportunities to explore with math materials that will become Workplace Stations in the weeks to come.

  

Friendly Reminders

Please send your children to school with water bottles.

Please help your children pack their Peace Time (Quiet Time) towels every Monday morning.  I will send towels home on Fridays to be washed.

Please send your children to school in sneakers on Physical Education days - Thursdays and Fridays.

Say cheese!
First day of kindergarten pictures

We read The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn and made text to self connections with Chester the raccoon who was scared to leave his family and home on the very first day of school. 

We met Mrs. Vicki Nelson, our You Skills teacher. Mrs. Nelson will visit us on Mondays. Mrs. Nelson always brings her puppets, Luke and Same, to help us learn about taking care of ourselves, taking care of each other and taking 
care of this place.

Explore Time!

We are builders!

We are writers!

Mrs. Woods, kindergarten special educator, visits the classroom and lends a helping hand to a friend learning how to use scissors.

We made first days of kindergarten self portraits. We will make self portraits at the end of every month to celebrate our hard work and growing skills.

Look at us on the first day of kindergarten!

Reading starts with our names. We decorated our names with paper squares and looked closely at how letters are shaped and formed. We're excited to learn how to write letters the kindergarten way.

We read Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister at our very first Kindergarten Community Meeting with Ms. Rowntree's class. This book taught us the value or sharing and working together.  

WE LOVE KINDERGARTEN!