GETTING TO KNOW YOU / BACK TO SCHOOL

Objectives:

Children will become familiar with school routines.

Children will identify and relate different feelings (sad, mad, happy, silly etc)

Children will learn the rules of the classroom.

Children will practice cooperation and sharing. 

Children will practice correct pencil grip and basic pencil strokes (circle, line, slant)

Children will be able to read sight words ( My, name)  

 

 

Books 

The following books will be read in class. 

I Like Me by Nancy Carlson

Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes

Froggy Goes To School by Jonathan London 

The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn

Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph Slate  

We Share Everything by Robert Munch 

Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come by Nancy L. Carlson 

If You Take A Mouse To School - By Laura Numeroff

Meet The Barkers - Morgan and Moffet Go To School by Tomie dePaola 

Handwriting and Phonics:

Children will practice correct pencil grip.

Children will practice basic pencil strokes of circle, line and slant.

Children will be able to explain the difference between a letter and a word.

Children will learn left to right progression. 

Here are some of the projects we did in class:

We made Guess Who pictures and and did handprints to see what our hands looked like!

 

We took a look at our fingerprints and decided what kind of fingerprints we have by making a picture called "I'm Thumbody Special"
 
 
 
 
We explored the letters of the alphabet using some of the books seen below and then colored in our very special intials.
 
 

                             

INITIALLY YOURS

Can you find your initials?  They are made of 2 special LETTERS!