10/29 Kindergarten Blog
Dear Kindergarten Families, This week in our Morning Meetings, students paired up with someone new each day to share something about ourselves, and then shared to the group what our partners said. The children are getting to know everyone and working on their listening skills! We introduced a tricky new song called “Dreams of Harmony,” where we sing “Goodnight” in many different languages. We also learned “You Are My Sunshine.” The big news of the week is that we have student jobs! The children were very excited to learn that starting Monday, everyone will have their very own classroom... Read More
10/22 Kindergarten Blog
Dear Kindergarten Families, This week, we got creative with our greetings! We’ve gotten used to greeting each other individually in our Morning Meetings, but now we’ve added in fancy waves and movements to our greetings for friends to mirror back to us. We also learned a new alphabet song called “Alligators All Around.” As part of our continued study of sharing about ourselves and learning about others, we had an interesting discussion about what Kindergarteners can do! We made three lists, things that all Kindergartners can do (draw, play), things some Kindergarteners can do (read, ride a bike,... Read More
10/15 Kindergarten Blog
10/15 Kindergarten Blog Dear Kindergarten Families, This week we learned new games in Hebrew, Math, and P.E., sang new songs and old favorites, and are continuing to make friends with each other. In our Morning Meetings, we introduced two new songs: Down By the Bay, and This Land Is Your Land. We shared our favorite movies, books, places, and songs, and began a class-wide conversation about daily rotating student jobs, which will be introduced next week. As we continued to set up our classroom for the year each child made their own batch of playdough, carefully following... Read More
10/8 Kindergarten Blog
Dear Kindergarten Families, Our fourth week in, and it was finally a full week of school! The children had their first music class, we continued with our Morning Meeting singing and getting to know each other, and are growing more and more accustomed to school! In Writer’s Workshop we continued working on information books. It has been exciting to see children begin to add letters to their work, usually labeling items that they have drawn with their first letter of the item. They are also beginning to add more details to their pictures. As mentor texts we read Where Do... Read More
10/1 Kindergarten Blog
Dear Kindergarten Families, It’s getting chilly! The children had so much fun during our Simchat Torah celebrations on Monday, began learning about Fall in Hebrew, and conducted an exciting experiment in Science called “Sink or Float”. In our Morning Meetings, we sang songs that we know by heart at this point, and began to learn a new one called “You Gotta Sing”, replacing “sing” with our own verbs to move our bodies and make the song our own. On Monday, we had almost a full day of Simchat Torah events. The children constructed their own sukkot out of... Read More
9/24 Kindergarten Blog
Dear Kindergarten Families, What a fun week it’s been! The children had their first Art and Science classes and started learning the brachot for t’filah! In our Morning Meetings, we continued getting to know each other by sharing our favorite animals and treats (cotton candy was the most popular by far!). We learned a new song, Deep and Wide, and continued practicing ones we learned last week, including our special Hebrew Sukkot song. In General Studies we had our first phonics lesson, studying the name of our classroom mascot, Mabel the elephant. We looked at her name, counting the... Read More
September 17: First Week of School!
Dear Kindergarten Families, Please be sure to read the whole blog so as not to miss important reminders at the end! We had a wonderful first week in Kindergarten! Even though we were only in school for 2 ½ days, lots happened during the first week of Kindergarten. We started each day with a Morning Meeting where we started to get to know each other’s names with a different greeting each day. We sang Willoughby Wallaby and Baby Beluga. We began to learn about all the different routines such as putting our snacks and lunches in the correct... Read More
Welcome to Kindergarten!
Dear Kindergarten Families, Welcome to Kindergarten! We have been busy getting the classrooms organized and can’t wait to meet the students and begin our year together. Emailing the Team It is very important to use this email address and send messages to all three teachers rather than just one of us. Thank you!! kindergartenteam2021@hannahsenesh.org. Reminders: First day of Kindergarten is Monday, September 13. This will be a short day which will begin at 8:45 and end at 11:15. Tuesday will be a full day, 8:25-3:30. We go outside in all weather. Please dress your student for the day’s weather. Pack... Read More
Kindergarten Blog 6/10/21
Dear Families, We made it to the end of the year! Thank you all for being our partners in the Kindergarten journey! Enjoy these pictures from our last few school days! Shabbat Shalom, and Have a Great Summer! Dawn, Anat, Talia, and Atalya Music with Heidi Kindergarteners ended off their musical year with a review of their skills – they performed their Music Rules rap to tempos and dynamics of their choosing, sung Bonnie the Beautiful Butterfly, played their shakers, created rhythms with their rhythm sticks, created a thunderstorm with their body movements and danced with their scarves to... Read More
Kindergarten Blog – 6/4/21
Dear Families, In phonics, we continue to work with vowel sounds and word families through games and puzzles. We are working on end of the year preparations, such as signs for eighth grade graduation. Students are also writing letters to their first grade teachers! They are writing about themselves, and what they want their teachers to know. As part of our coin study, Kindergarteners are creating a store. We are making some items to sell in our store, like mini crowns, paper airplanes, and notebooks. Students are discussing what jobs are needed in a store, how they should price the... Read More