August 27th-August 31st

The first week of school has been a very exhausting one for the students.  They are learning how to work in Kindergarten centers and realizing they are responsible for more things this year.
I will be posting pictures here on a weekly basis.  I will also list the sight words, letters of the day, word family and skills that were working on.
Sight words:  the, and
word family:-at (cat, bat, rat, hat, fat, mat, pat, sat)
Letters and sounds:A-G
We have also been working on rhyming, counting, patterning, beginning sounds and following directions.
Please work on some of these skills at home too.  All can be done as a game.  For example, kids love to play "I spy".  You can play this game with letters and beginning sounds.  The adult (or older child) can say "I spy something that starts with c".  
Also, please read with your child 15-20 minutes each night.  Have them pick out the sight words while you are reading.
I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend and we will see you Tuesday.  Please feel free to email me with any question, deirdrepatricia@yahoo.com

A little about myself....

My name is Deirdre Clark-Garcia and I currently teach Kindergarten at St. Sylvester School.  I have taught here for six years, five of which have been in Kindergarten and one year in preschool.  I absolutely love this school and have three of my own children attending here.  I love teaching Kindergarten and creating fun and exciting ways for the students to learn.  I will be posting all the fun things that we do this year along with any special announcements.
We have begun this school year with a pirate theme!  Arrrg you ready for Kindergarten?


The students started on Wednesday and to get a little comfortable in the classroom, we started with an art project.  The students made pirate faces and then printed their name underneath the face.  This was a good assessment to see which students were familiar with writing their name.  After that, the students went on a treasure hunt.  Each student was given a treasure map of the school.  This was to give them a tour around the school in a fun and exciting way.  The map led us to the playground where there was a hidden treasure full of prizes.  The students picked a prize and were off to play.  I think they had a great first day.  Except for the crying when they realized we took all their supplies from their backpacks.:)