We've had another great week in kindergarten!  We read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, and other fun stories by Laura Numeroff.  The vocabulary words that we introduced through these stories were generous, nuisance, energetic, and exhausted.  If you hear these words at home, it's because we talked about them a lot this week and tried using them in our conversations.  In Jolly Phonics we learned the sounds of i & p.  We made words with the letters that we have learned so far (s, a, t, i, p, n).  Our new popcorn word was, I.  We heard it popping up in our reading all week.  We introduced and practiced the next daily 5 activity: Listen to Reading.  The kids were able to practice listening to a story on our listening center and on the computers.  In math we did counting activities.  The kids are counting objects, matching the amount to the number, putting numbers and number words 0-20 in order.  We are also learning place value with the number of days we are in school (12= 1 stick of ten and 2 ones).  We've been counting forward each day from 1 and also backwards to 1. The students seem to enjoy having class jobs and we will start the student of the week program next Friday.  Thank you for getting those posters in on time :)  Have a great weekend!