Back to School

Yay for the first and second weeks of Kindergarten!

We spent the first week of school getting to know each other, the classroom, and school. We spent a lot of time talking about treating others the way you want to be treated and the Pleasant Ridge High Five Rules. Week one ended with an assembly on the High Five. The Kindergarteners learned from the third graders what the high five rules are and why we need to follow these rules.

Week two was just as busy! We continued getting to know everyone and remembering each others' names. We started our Math curriculum with lessons on sorting and patterning. We practiced counting to ten and explored how to illustrate the numbers 0-10.

We started practicing handwriting by writing our names starting with an uppercase first letter and lowercase for the rest. When learning how to write letters, we follow the Handwriting without Tears curriculum. This starts with the frog jump capitals. With a little practice, our handwriting is already improving!

During week two, we also started learning the Zoo Phonics Letters, Sounds, and Hand Motions. The children had a lot of fun singing the songs and doing Zoo Aerobics!

Now on to week three! Can't wait for all the fun times to come this year! :)