Kindergarten
My name is Mrs. Irza. This is my 15th year of teaching and my fourth year teaching Kindergarten, all at St. John School. I have enjoyed beginning the students' educational journeys with them each year. I am truly amazed with their daily growth.
Kindergarten has been busy this year beginning our educational journey with learning letters and sounds. We spend our mornings practicing how to write our letters and spell and read words. We use salt trays, clay to form letters some of the time or push up M & M's to segment the sounds in our words. We also make our own books and class books to help build fluency. In math we learn beginning concepts in partterns, classification, numbers, time, money and addition and subtraction. Our afternoons are spent learning religion concepts such as family, the life of Jesus, baptism and our special talents. We also have themes such as farm life, dinosaurs, Fall harvest, winter, home and neighborhood and holidays.
What's new in Fall 2009?
We are learning about the life of Native Americans and Pilgrims. This includes the contributions Native Americans have made to our lives today. We are doing math activities with candy corn and science with popcorn. We are talking about the beginning sounds of the vegetables and fruits found in the cornocupia as well as tapping out the syllables in their names. The songs we sing and their actions show us what the Native Americans and Pilgrims had to do during the day. A special snack we made shows us how to plant a seed (candy corn) in soil (pudding) and fertilize it with fish (gummy fish). Look below at all the fun we had!!!!!!
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