Transitional Kindergarten News 

What a busy and exciting week of learning! Our students have been working hard to learn classroom routines, expectations, and how to be great members of our TK community.

📚 Literacy & Learning

This week, we read many books together here are a few!

🍉 The Watermelon Seed – After reading, students drew pictures of some of their favorite things to eat.

🐛 A Bug and a Wish – We learned ways to handle problems with classmates and practiced using our words to solve conflicts. Students also enjoyed drawing some of their own bugs!

⭐ Classroom Rules

We have begun learning our class rules:

Rule #1: Listen when someone is talking.
Rule #2: Follow directions quickly.
Rule #3: Raise your hand to speak.

We also learned our teacher attention grabber: “Class, Class!” Students respond with “Yes, Yes!” This is a fun way to help everyone stop, listen, and get ready for directions.

🏫 Classroom Expectations

Students have been practicing many important routines and expectations, including:

• Using the bathroom appropriately and independently
• Walking safely in the hallway
• Working and playing appropriately in centers
• Packing folders and putting them into backpacks

We will continue practicing these routines throughout the next few weeks until they become second nature!

✏️ Handwriting

We began practicing our handwriting skills and worked on writing the number 1.

🎨 Art

Our students have been exploring lots of different art supplies, including:

• Paint sticks
• Watercolors
• Crayons
• Markers
• Colored pencils

We read The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds and created our own beautiful dot artwork using watercolors. Along the way, students learned the process of getting water and brushes, painting with watercolors, placing their artwork on the drying rack, and washing and putting away their painting supplies.

Students are welcome to independently use these supplies during Discover Centers in the afternoon. Be sure to check out their beautiful artwork displayed in our doorway alcove!

👕 A Quick Clothing Reminder

Our TK students do not follow the school's uniform requirements. Please continue to send your child in clothing that is appropriate for the weather and allows them to comfortably play and participate in all of our activities.

Please also make sure your child wears shoes that they can manage independently. Layers are always a great idea as temperatures can change throughout the day!

Thank you for sharing your wonderful children with us. We had a fantastic week and are excited for all the learning and fun ahead!