We have now been through the alphabet one time and starting today, we are repeating it. By now, your child should be able to recognize most of the uppercase letters. We are working hard on writing and recognizing lowercase letters. It is my goal to get your child writing his/her name in lowercase letters (except for the first letter, of course). We are also working on counting and recognizing numbers. Our Star of the Day was Riley. Riley has a twin brother in the other kindergarten class, an older sister, and a pet guinea pig. He likes macaroni and cheese, monkeys, the letter R and the number 6, as well as toy sharks. Since everyone has had their turn as Star of the Day, we are now moving on to writing during that time. Today, students drew a picture of themselves in their Halloween costume and labeled the picture. I will send them home after I make copies. Don't be alarmed by the spelling--they were told to write the sounds that they hear. For example, Cinderella may be spelled sindrla. That's fantastic in my eyes because it means that they know their letter sounds!! Yay! We won't worry about spelling for a while, and mostly for the high frequency words that are on our word wall.