Thursday, Sept. 3

It was a dog day in kindergarten -- because we studied the letter D, of course! We fed the sound muncher, made a dog craft, then sang BINGO, barking as we left off a letter instead of clapping. We read a dinosaur story and sang Dig A, Dig A, Dig A Dinosaur. On our mini whiteboards, we practiced writing all the letters we've learned thus far: A, B, C, D (upper and lower case). Rose Park uses D'Nealian-style letters. For an example of upper case letters, see http://www.writingwizard.longcountdown.com/files/worksheet20064224131904.html. For lower case letters, see http://www.writingwizard.longcountdown.com/files/worksheet20064224421232.html

Many of the students wanted to take a nap after lunch, so I told them they could stretch out of the floor as long as they weren't kicking anyone else. As tired as they were, very few were able to keep still. Many of them were more comfortable sitting up to listen to the story, after all! No of them has fallen asleep in class yet!

We did the first lesson in our math curriculum-- one-to-one matching. Students need to be able to point once for each object they count. This skill carries over to reading, as students need to know how to point to one word at a time as they read. We have several students who are on the verge of reading, already!!