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 in the correct order can our names be spelled and read. In the pictures below you will see us busily working on our name posters that will be posted in the classroom when they are completed!
This week we have also begun exploring our math materials. In order for us to be able to use our manipulatives in meaningful ways we need some time to explore and play with them to see what we can do.
Some families have asked about the kindergarten songs that we have been learning and singing at school. It sounds like many have enjoyed singing them at home too! Here are the lyrics to a few favorites so far. Stay tuned for more songs coming soon…
Happy singing 🙂
Doughnut Shop
Oh, I walked into a doughnut shop
for something good to eat,
‘cause I was so hungry
from my head to my feet,
so I picked up a doughnut
and I wiped off the grease,
and I handed the lady a five- cent piece.
Well she looked at the nickel
and she looked at me,
and she said, “Hey, mister,
can’t you plainly see,
there’s a hole in the nickel
and it goes right through?”
Says I, “There’s a hole in the doughnut too!”
Shave and a haircut, shampoo!
The Fishing Song
Have you ever been a-fishin’
On a bright and sunny day?
When you see the little fishies
Swimming up and down the bay.
With their hands in their pocket,
And their pockets in their pants.
And all the little fishies do the
Hoochie, coochie dance!
Mrs. Wishy Washy
Way down in the valley
where nobody goes,
There’s a wishy washy washer woman
washing her clothes.
She goes ooh! ah!
She goes ooh! ah!
That’s how the washy woman
washes her clothes.
Da-da-da da, da,
Boogedy boogedy boo
Da-da-da da, da,
Boogedy boogedy boo
That’s how the washy woman
washes her clothes.
Little Green Frog
Mm ah! Went the little green frog one day
Mm ah! Went the little green frog
Mm ah! Went the little green frog one day
And its eyes went mm mm ah!
But we all know that frogs go na-na-na-na-na,
na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na,
we all know that frogs go, na-na-na-na-na,
They don’t go mm mm ah!
