The first week of school has come and gone and your children seem to have adjusted well. We have spent the week doing "guided discoveries" which are focused, purposeful, and playful ways to introduce materials, areas, and activities in the classroom. This helps in the use and care of the materials and also promotes independence at cleanup time. Our expectations are clear and encourage students to keep a kind, caring, and safe classroom. This is all part of Responsive Classroom and will be continued next week.
We have read many stories, which we call "read alouds". The children have read our news and announcements and have answered questions in morning meeting. We have sung songs, done activities, and read poetry. We are also getting to know one another better every day. We have completed three days of work centers. The students have a job list to complete each morning and will eventually rotate through their jobs independently (although need quite a bit of support at the beginning of the year). They have improved each day!
The nurse would like to remind parents to make sure all medical forms are turned in ASAP. Please send them to school with your child in his/her blue folder and we will make sure they get to the nurse.
It was so nice seeing so many of you at our Back-to-School Night this past Wednesday night. I know there was a lot of information presented that night. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you for your willingness to complete the coloring project! The students haven't seen them yet but I know they will love them when we go through them this coming week!
Our principal, Mrs. McDonald has scheduled another Confidentiality Meeting. It will be this Tuesday morning, September 20th, from 8-8:15am. I would encourage you to attend the meeting if you weren’t able to make it to the meeting this past week. There will be other meetings scheduled throughout the fall but maybe not before our first field trip in October.
Mrs. Sullivan and I are both enjoying our time with your children and are excited about working with them for the remainder of the year. We are looking forward to working with all of you too!
We hope you enjoy the pictures below. They capture small glimpses of some of what we did during our first week of Kindergarten!
Have a great weekend!
Melanie Duncan
Please don’t forget to send in the $5 to cover the cost of the field trip t-shirt. You can send either cash or a check made out to Francis Wyman Kindergarten. Thank you!
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