Last week in Kindergarten...

Last week we introduced the color word yellow with a new song sung to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It."

Y-E-L-L-O-W spells yellow,
Y-E-L-L-O-W spells yellow,
Yellow is a pretty color and because you're a nice fellow
I will tell you 'bout some things that are yellow.
Bananas, lemons, and the sun are yellow,
Bananas, lemons, and the sun are yellow,
Yes all of these are yellow
And I hope you will remember,
Y-E-L-L-O-W spells yellow!

We also added a triangle song to our repertoire of shapes and traced various sizes of triangles to make designs and colored them yellow.  Here's our triangle song (sung to The Farmer in the Dell):

A triangle has three sides,
A triangle has three sides,
Up the hill and down and back,
A triangle has three sides.

It's important when singing the shape songs to trace the shape in the air using your sky writer (which is your pointer finger, of course!).

Our letter focus was Gg and we made paper gumball machines and drew a picture of Gus the Goat to reinforce the letter sound.  Next week we'll be learning about Hh!  We are really working on writing these letters properly as we learn them.  We have a song we like to sing about where to start your letters when you put your pencil on the paper to remind the children of proper letter formation.  Ask your child, "Where do you start your letters?" and hopefully the answer you'll get will be, "At the top!"

Last week four new sight words were introduced: a, an, here, is.  We practiced these words with our new pre-decodable reader, Lunch. Our word from last week, the was also reviewed.  Next week we will be adding two more words: I, see.

Each week we are also introducing number words.  So far we have learned one and two, and next week (quick! take a guess!) three.