Kindergarteners Choose Nutritious Foods

A Successful Learning Adventure on our First Field Study

All Kindergarteners enjoyed their first field study to BI-LO last week. The staff taught us how to shop for healthy foods and how to make good food choices. They also demonstrated how the grocery store is divided up into the 5 healthy food groups. Hopefully your kindergartener saw a new food they would like to try. Please continue to send in notes if your child has tried a new food so that we may issue a food badge. A big thank you to all of the parents who have embraced trying and eating healthy foods.

Happy Halloween!

We look forward to seeing all kindergarteners all dressed up this Friday, October 31st. We will start the day off with a fun Halloween Parade that will begin promptly at 8:15. Please send in a uniform change of clothes for your child to wear after the parade. Be sure to label all parts and pieces with your child's name. Please remember no masks or weapons of any kind can be brought to school.

Sight Word Study - October 29th - November 3rd

brown, gray, white, pink

Math Update

In class we have been learning the number poems for proper formation of number zero through ten. We encourage children to say these poems as they are writing numbers because we find that it can greatly reduce reversals. Please remind your child to say these poems when practicing at home.

It's Turkey Time

In this week's Tuesday envelope, you will find a letter with directions for your family to disguise a turkey so that it won't get eaten for Thanksgiving dinner! This has proven to be an exciting project for the kindergarten students and their family members to enjoy each year. Please return your turkey no later than Wednesday, November 5th. The "turkeys" will be displayed in the hallway then sent home before Thanksgiving break.
 Have fun, and be creative!
The pictures below are a few examples of turkeys from years past.

 

 

It's Great To Be A Skyhawk!

Fall Fest A Huge Hit!

What a fun time! Everyone enjoyed Fall Fest last Friday night! A great big THANK YOU to all of the parents that volunteered. Everyone has been talking about it nonstop!

Kindergarten's First Guest Speaker

Your Skyhawks enjoyed a special treat last Wednesday!  Mrs. Mary Ann Grainger is a registered dietician, and she helped us understand how to make healthy choices with the foods we eat. We played informative games and learned how to check the grams of sugar and fiber content in packaged food items. Don't be surprised if your child asks you to check the food labels and requests that you make another choice if the sugar content is more than 10 grams! They may even request 100% fruit juice or whole wheat bread!

Parsa, Addie and Jackson play Spin and Win with Mrs. Grainger

Kate Lindsey tries a Star Fruit


 


 

     As an extension activity to our study of Nutrition and healthy eating habits, the kindergarteners will experience how we get food from plants. We will discuss and taste the edible parts of various plants (seeds, roots, stems, leaves, flowers).

 

First Field Trip This Week

As we continue our study of nutrition and healthy eating habits the kindergarteners will experience their first field trip of the year this week.

The Bear Cubs and Ducklings visited the local BI-LO on Forest Drive this morning.
The Tiger Cubs and Friendly Frogs will be visiting BI-LO this Thursday.

This field study is a good way for the children to discover fruits and vegetables after they have been picked, cleaned, and shipped from small and large farms. The staff teaches our kindergarten students various ways to make wise decisions about the food they eat.

Sight Word Study

black, green, purple, orange

Suggested sight word activities and games.

• Place sight words in a container. Invite your child to shake the container, spill out the words, and read the ones that fall face up. Give your child a score that is equal to the number of letters in the words he/she reads. Record the total, then place the remaining words back in the container, shake and spill again. Add the total to the first score. Continue until all words have been read.
• Choose a newspaper article and see if your child can spot one or two sight words at a time. Use a highlighter and count how many times the word appeared.
• Turn the sight words into rainbows. Ask your child to write a sight word on paper in big letters. Using different crayons, have your child trace around the word again and again, reading the word each time.
• Have your child write the sight words on the driveway using sidewalk chalk.

 

 

 

Healthy Skyhawks

Welcome back!

We hope everyone had a very fun, restful Fall Break!

The kindergarteners are continuing discussions about healthy eating habits and the importance of good nutrition. Tomorrow is an exciting day! We have our first guest speaker coming in. Mrs. Mary Ann Grainger, a registered dietician, will be here to talk to the kindergarten about how to make healthy choices. Be sure to ask your child what they learned.

 In an effort to encourage our students to try new healthy foods, we are offering a food badge for each NEW food tasted at home. Please send in a note stating which food your child tried. You can jot the name of the food on any piece of paper, then have your child draw a smiley face or a frown to indicate what they thought about the new food.
 Happy Eating!




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

Science Update

Using cross curricula connections, the kindergarteners will be spending the month of October learning about healthy eating habits. Eating is the most important thing we do each day, and this unit of study will explain why

We will find out:

• Which foods you need to eat everyday
• Where food goes after you swallow it
• Why it's good to eat breakfast
• What vitamins and other nutrients are for
• Why you can't eat only candy!!

 

Sight Word Study for the Week of October 14th

• this
• that
• will
• red
• yellow
• blue

 

Healthy Days Ahead!

The kindergarteners are beginning discussions about healthy eating choices as we study Nutrition. We will learn that healthy habits include getting plenty of rest, eating healthy foods, brushing our teeth, and exercising. This unit of study is always a favorite!

Sight Word Study for the Week of October 7th

• he
• she
• we
• be
• have

Be sure to look back at our first post for ideas and activities to reinforce these words. Don't forget to practice the sight words we have previously studied. We can now make sentences with all of the words we know. You can even write them!

Math in Kindergarten

We have started introducing money. We are beginning with the penny. The children are learning this penny poem that you may enjoy practicing at home.

 

 

"Penny Poem"

Penny, Penny

Easily spent

Copper brown

And worth one cent.