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Kindergarten 2017 – 2018 Blog

Celebrating Passover in Kindergarten!

Dear Kindergarten Families, We had a very busy and fun week! We learned all about making Matzah and had our own Model Seder! In Math, we are learning how to count forward and backward to and from 10 in preparation for addition and subtraction. We have been practicing figuring out parts of 10 (1 and 9, 2 and 8, 3 and 7, etc.). The children were counting how many objects they had and how many they would need to get to 10. For example, “I have 4, I need ____ to get to 10.”   While practicing counting to 10, we...
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Reptiles and the Letter Y!

Dear Kindergarten Families, We had lots of fun this week in Kindergarten! We continued talking about using kind words and being careful not to hurt others with our words. We read the story “Have You Filled a Bucket Today?” by Carol McCloud. We talked about using kind words and doing nice things to fill each other’s buckets. In Math, we continued learning about Time. We read “The Grouchy Ladybug” by Eric Carle and created our own pages saying what time the grouchy ladybug met an animal of our choice. We also practiced telling time on the hour with clocks. Additionally, we learned...
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Music, art and puppets!

Dear Kindergarten Families, We had lots of fun this week in Kindergarten! It was great to speak with all of you during conferences! We also talked about using kind words and being careful not to hurt others with our words. In Math, we began learning about Time. We had a discussion of what we know about time and talked about the fact that time can be measured in minutes, seconds, hours, days, weeks, months, years, centuries, etc. The children were practicing reading the names of the days of the week. We listened to a fun song by Eric Carle “Today...
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Maps, Birds, Letter W and much more!

Dear Kindergarten Families, We had lots of fun this week in Kindergarten! In English Language Arts, we learned the letter Ww and the sound /w/ it makes (as in ‘win’). We practiced forming upper and lowercase Ww letters using our Handwriting Without Tears books, wooden planks, and finding words that start with W and drawing pictures of them. In our Words Their Way Spelling program, we practiced reading and sorting words with the short vowel /o/ and with the /sh/ sound. The children have been introduced to the /sh/, /ch/ and /th/ sounds and we will continue practicing these digraphs....
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Happy Purim!

Dear Kindergarten Families, What an exciting and busy week we had in Kindergarten! We started on Monday by celebrating the 100th Day of School. We were excited to welcome Wren’s mom to teach us about being a vet for letter V. We also had lots of fun dressing up and celebrating Purim! And, on Friday, we had a Drum Circle presented by an amazing company called Musical IQ! You can see a video of our Purim Parade and other fun photos on the Hannah Senesh Facebook Page here (6:30 minute) In Math, we have been learning about comparing and combining...
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Pajama Day, Lunar New Year and much more!

Dear Kindergarten Families, We had a very exciting week in Kindergarten! We welcomed in Adar with Pajama Day, a Talent show, and a parade! We even got to enjoy yummy treats and have snack with our buddies! In Math, we have been learning about counting and comparing numbers and sets of objects up to 100. We compared sets of various objects and decided how many more or less each stack had than the other. On the first day after our mid-winter break, Monday, February 26, we will have the 100th Day of School. It will be a celebration of learning and...
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Delet P’tucha, Winter Olympics and more!

Dear Kindergarten Families, We had a wonderful week in Kindergarten! It was fun welcoming you into our classrooms for Delet P’tucha and sharing our learning with you. In Math, we have been learning about counting and comparing numbers and sets of objects up to 100. We practiced deciding whether an item could be counted or not (grains of sand vs marbles) and counting them to compare whether there are less or more. We also introduced the Winter Olympic Games in our Math class and did many fun activities related to math and winter sports (patterns, graphs, counting, and much more!)....
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Tu B’shvat, Curiosity on Court, Science and much more!

Dear Kindergarten Families, We had a wonderful week in Kindergarten! On Wednesday, we enjoyed the Tu B’Shvat Fair with our buddies learning about trees, the environment and tasting the fruit of trees. On Thursday, we had lots of fun climbing, running around, exploring and playing at Curiosity on Court! Thank you to Lisa, Almah’s mom for organizing the trip and to our wonderful chaperones: Jinah, Yulia, Lana and Zina! The children are bringing home a book about Rainbow based on a song (a gift from Scholastic to our class) and here is the site to listen to this book/song. The children...
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Musical “Beauty and the Beast,” Writing Fairy Tales and more!

Dear Kindergarten Families, We had a wonderful week in Kindergarten! As part of our “Fairy Tales” unit, we learned more about “Beauty and the Beast” and even had a chance to see part of the 8th grade Musical on Wednesday morning! In Math, we learned about counting by 5s and 10s. We also continued practicing using “tallies” and counting by 5. The children used craft sticks to create various amounts using tally marks. Ask your child to show you how to count using tally marks and how to count by 2s, 5s, and 10s. We also learned about coins and...
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Learning about Animals in Science and Judaics and with AriSafari!

Dear Kindergarten Families, We hope you enjoyed your long weekend! We had a great week in Kindergarten! The highlight of our week was Ari Safari with his amazing animals. The children really enjoyed the show “Animal Defenses” and got to learn about and touch some rare animals, such as a toad, snake, chameleon, legless lizard and a chinchilla. Ask your children what their favorite animal was and what was the most surprising thing they learned. In Math, we learned about pairs and counting by 2. We practiced making pairs of socks, gloves, shoes, tiles and much more. We also practiced...
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