September Letters, Themes, Events

Be sure to look for our Weekly Class News in your child's folder each Friday - all you need to know about BSLK (and more!) will be on the newsletter!  In addition, a monthly calendar will be stapled inside your child's daily folder.  REMINDER:  our team color is the same as the daily folder.

Fall Tree Family Projects will come home this month as well as our first Progress Report.

Labor Day holiday this month in addition to Fall Pictures, Book Fair, & "Grand" Open House (combo of Grandparents' Day & Open House - LOTS of FUN!)

BEGINNING OF THE YEAR THEMES continued:   

• PEACEMAKING  continue with:  Rules & Procedures & Colors & Letter Introduction
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, First Names, Chrysanthemum
• sing alphabet song - emphasizing vowels

"STAR WORDS"/SIGHT WORDS SO FAR:  I, am, the little, to, a

LETTERS AND SOCIAL STUDIES/SCIENCE THEMES:   

• Mm & Me, playful monsters, monkeys
• Bb & My Body, My Brain, My Birthday
• possibly Aa & Apples

MATH:   

• continue with Shapes, AB Pattern, Sorting/Classifying
• Graphs, early Calendar Concepts
• counting one-to-one (pointing to objects as we are counting them)
• Number Poems
• Represent, Count, & Write Numbers 0-5
• Compare Numbers to 5

• FOCUS NUMBERS:  refer to weekly Class News

Your child has the opportunity to Build-A-Rainbow by learning all of our Kindergarten Sight Words (also called "Star Words").  Your child can earn a rainbow piece by reading the star words (each reading unit has a set of star words, each unit is a color of the rainbow).  Once your child's rainbow is complete, we celebrate, take a picture by our rainbow wearing our headband, AND are given a First Grade Packet to work on at home!  Remind your child to let Mrs. Barclift know they are ready to pass-off a set of Star Words once they are able to!

Your child has the opportunity to earn THREE OWLS.  To earn an owl, your child must (1) count to 100 by 10's (we sing a song in class), (2) count to 100 by 1's (we have a song & a slap/clap pattern to learn this skill, and (3) correctly name numbers 0-20 out of sequence.  Remind your child to let Mrs. Barclift know they are ready to pass-off once they are able to do any of the three skills above!

BELOW ARE SOME VIDEOS WE ENJOY DURING THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER!!!  HAVE FUN!