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Fall Conferences Fall conferences will begin on Tuesday, October 27th. Be sure to sign up for a conference. These conferences will be a time for us to speak about your child’s transition into kindergarten, some of the skills s/he has demonstrated, goals for the year and other information you believe is important to share to […]

Each week we will learn a new poem and practice reading it all together throughout the week. Our poem this week was called “The Apple Tree”. The first day we read it a few times all together so we could hear what it sounds like. Students watched as I modeled how to point to each word […]

This week we kicked off our first Reader’s Workshop unit all about our names. We’re learning that our names are actually words! Words are made when letters come to together in a particular order. We’re quickly making the connection that our names have a certain amount of letters and only when these letters are written […]

Welcome to KB! I hope you enjoyed your summer vacation. We are fortunate to have Ms. Hagopian working with us in our classroom this year. I am looking forward to spending the year with you and getting to know your family. Home/School Folders: In order to foster ongoing communication, each child will receive a folder […]

We have certainly been busy over the few weeks in kindergarten.  Last week we were lucky to have a special visit from author and illustrator, Miko Imai. She shared with us 3 of her published books: Little Lumpty, Lily’s Secret, and Sebastian’s Trumpet. She even showed us step by step how to draw one of her characters, Little […]

CONFERENCES Thank you for signing up and attending a spring conference. I enjoyed speaking with each family about the progress your child has made in kindergarten. BALANCED LITERACY Phonics: This month in Fundations we will learn the following letters and their sounds: Qu/qu-queen-/qu/ and Zz-zebra-/z/. This month we have also started learning about syllables. We […]

Your kindergartener may come home talking about Reader’s Workshop and you may still be wondering what this time of our day  looks and sounds like. Reader’s Workshop provides students the opportunity to practice reading skills and strategies through differentiated literacy centers and guided reading groups. Take a closer look at what some our literacy centers […]

KB is 100 Days Smarter! Our first day back from February vacation was the 100th day of school! We celebrated by having a whole morning of 100th day math centers: Center 1: Playing 100th day path game Students took turns with a friend to play the 100th day path game. The first to move their […]

The past few weeks have been quite exciting in kindergarten.  Our ladybug larvae came and we were able to watch them go through their life cycle and turn into adult ladybugs. Although we were sad to release them last week, we discovered amazing things were happening on our playground.  Yesterday, Troy noticed something small and […]

Here’s what we had to say about our trip to the Harvard Museum of Natural History: “In our group we got to touch copper in the rock room.” “We got to touch a real shark’s tooth and skin.” “We saw giant dinosaur bones.  It was the length of the WHOLE room!” “We got to see […]