Hooray! We made it through a full week of Kindergarten! The students are becoming more comfortable with their new school each day. This week we began teaching our curriculum. In the Michael Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Program, the students listened for and repeated such things as rhyming words, beginning sounds of words, compound words, letter recognition, and letter sounds. During reading time we read stories such as, Now I'm Big, Mice Squeak, We Speak, Let's Play and We Go To School. We worked on compare/contrast, left to right directionality and size words. In Jolly Phonics we practiced the sounds for s & a using our whiteboard program. Be sure to practice those sounds at home...s (sssss) & a (a as in aaaaple). In handwriting we practiced proper posture and pencil grip and explored some of our handwriting manipulatives. In math we have been working on sorting objects by color, size and shape. We've been using the words, alike and different when we compare objects. The students also had recess, went to gym, and visited the library. We had a great week! Have a wonderful weekend!