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Kindergarten - September 2022

Our Kindergarten class is having a fantastic beginning to our school year. We have 16 kindergarteners this year. The children have been working hard these first few weeks

, learning new rules and routines and building stamina for both physical and academic

activities. We have class values that we refer to often. We discussed how value is something important and worthwhile that we believe in and live out to the best of our ability.

Each value has a Bible verse that shows that God values these things too. As a class, we are striving to be  Attentive (Hebrews 2:1), Obedient (1 John 2:3), Kind (Ephesians 4:32),

Self-Controlled (2 Timothy 1:7). In addition, our school-wide character trait for the month of September is "Honesty," so we have been learning about how to be truthful in our lives and words.


On the first day of school, we read “How Full Is Your Bucket For Kids” by Tom Rath and discussed how to fill each other’s ‘buckets’ with kind words and actions. We have a class

bucket students can fill with pom poms when other people are kind to them. When the bucket is full, we celebrate with a class party. We just earned our first party, and the kids voted to have an extra recess! It takes many pom poms to fill a bucket, so there have been

many acts of love and friendship in this first month!


Sue Ullestad returned to Trinity this year to teach Kindergarten religion. We are learning

the Lord’s Prayer and Luther’s Morning Prayer, plus several hymns. Our Bible stories have

been about creation, Noah and the ark, and Abraham.


In Literacy, we have learned seven letter sounds, the difference between letters, words, and sentences, and have studied authors and illustrators. We’ve been doing a lot of writing: in our journals, in our handwriting books, making books of our own, and practicing writing our first names correctly. We’ve also read many, many books!


In Math, we have studied colors and how to spell color words and have sorted them by color, shape, size, type, and quantity. We just started positional words like above, behind, and beside.


Calendar is a big part of our morning routine and incorporates many different literacy

and math skills. We count days of school, spell the month and recognize and continue

patterns. This is another area where we’ve been practicing good writing as we write the

month and day of the week every day in interactive calendar notebooks. We also chart

weather to introduce bar graphs.


Every day of the week, we have a different learning activity. On Make It Monday, we do art which has included careful coloring, gluing, and cutting so far. Look in the Kindergarten hallway for our adorable apple cores and rainbow fish! Techie Tuesdays are STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) activities. We made lemon volcanoes, had our visiting teacher, Mrs. H, from the Farm Bureau, teach us about farm products, and learned about apples to start off. On Walking Wednesdays, we take a walk around the neighborhood to enjoy God’s creation. We work on our walking in line skills and on observing the world around us. The kids really enjoy Thinking Thursdays when we do puzzles or play memory/thinking games. Fridays, we work on Fine Motor skills such as scissor skills and handwriting.


Our first few weeks in Kindergarten have gone by quickly and have been filled with fun and learning. I look forward to seeing all the ways the kindergarteners grow this year, both academically and in their faith and character.


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