Ben's School Years: September 2012

Friday, September 28, 2012

This weeks art

Ben brought these home throughout the week.

Goals of the week 10/1–10/5

Recognize Uppercase and Lowercase A
Letter A sound recognition
Words that start with A
Identifying animals that live on the farm
Number Recognition & Value of 1-5
Mixing two colors to make a new color

Monday, September 24, 2012

Academic Goals

I am trying to catch up on a few posts. Here are the goals for pre K that was presented to us:

Recognize and identify all Uppercase Letters
Rote Count up to 20
1:1 Correspondence
Recognize and Identify all colors and shapes
Sight words/Dolce Words, Begin to write their name
Begin to write letters and numbers
Other(cutting, pencil grip, socialization…)

A couple of weeks ago when we had asked Ben what they had done at school, he said that they had read a book. We asked him what book was read he said The Kissing Hand. Not being familiar with that book, we had to look it up and found it on You Tube.

A latter day, he brought home the following.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Hands

We were presented this at the open house on Thursday.

Friday, September 21, 2012

Goals of the Week 9/24–9/28

Here is what they have planned for next week.

Pets – Domestic Vs. Wild, Pet Care, Identify & Name various animals that can be pets
What is a pictograph and how to read one? (Graphing the weather for the week)
Rain Cycle
Fall Season – Characteristics of fall (colors, harvest, changes in our environment)
Name recognition games & the letters in our name
Practice tracing & Writing our names

This Week: Colors and Shapes

They are doing themes/goals for each week. This week was colors and shapes. Each day they wore a different color and brought in a shape for show and tell.

Monday – Wear Red and shape was circle. Ben took a light up ball in.
Tuesday – Wear Orange and shape was square. Ben brought in a Elmo book.
Wednesday – Wear Yellow and the shape was triangle. Ben took an angry bird.
Thursday – Wear Green and the shape was rectangle. Ben took a Domino.
Friday – Wear Blue and the shape was oval. Ben took one of his knee pads.