Morning Meeting

Kindergarten students and teachers were thrilled to have parents join us for Morning Meeting on Tuesday. Responsive Classroom’s Morning Meeting is an engaging way to start each day, build a strong sense of community, and set children up for success socially and academically. Morning Meeting has four components: Greeting, Sharing, a Group Activity, and a Morning Message. Students practice social skills in structured ways during our daily greetings. They learn the valuable life skill of greeting another person while making eye contact and saying the person’s name. During the Sharing part of Morning Meeting, students learn to articulate their thoughts and feelings in a positive manner. During the Group Activity portion of our meeting, students build community with classmates through active participation. Finally, academic skills and community building are both embedded through class discussions about our daily Morning Message.

Daily Morning Meetings help to create the positive power of community in our classroom! Students are able to fulfill the need to belong, to feel significant, and to have fun! Each day, your child is being taught the skills of friendliness and social interest through sharing, listening, inclusion, participation, and speaking in front of a group. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we do!

Reader Celebration

Kindergarteners were thrilled to finish reading the emergent storybooks and to celebrate with a parade throughout the entire school.  Other classrooms cheered our readers on with signs and chants to congratulate them on learning to read their book. Kindergarteners were then given a key to open up the world of books.  By the end of the parade, each student was beaming with pride!

Boone Hall Pumpkin Patch

Pumpkin experts were thrilled to go on their first study trip to the Boone Hall Pumpkin Patch on Thursday. Kindergarteners spent the morning jumping in the sun on a gigantic trampoline, going down giant slides, and just having lots of fun! Your child then enjoyed a hayride through the plantation. They saw ghosts, spiders, pirates, witches, and so much more!! Kindergarteners learned all about the life cycle of the pumpkin and acted it out through movement and song and then picked a pumpkin in a large field. Pumpkin experts then enjoyed eating lunch together among the pumpkins. We had a fantastic time!

Important Dates

• Wednesday, October 31st-  Halloween Carnival, 11:30 dismissal
• Monday, November 12- ½ Day- Parent/Teacher Conferences
• Tuesday,November 13- ½ Day- Parent/Teacher Conferences
• Tuesday, November 20- ½ Day- Harvest Feast