Getting-To-Know Each Other

This week was all about getting to know the classroom, specific routines, and getting to know each other!! Young Kindergarteners participated in various energizers to build community and friendships. These energizers included “Just Like Me,” “When the Warm Wind Blows”, “Would you rather?”, “Collaborative Musical Chairs”, and “A Tangled Web”. Kindergarteners enjoyed doing a classroom scavenger hunt to get familiar with the classroom. Ask your Kindergartener what their favorite Get-To-Know each other activity was this week!

Buddies

This week, Kindergarteners not only got to get to know each other, but they also got to know friends from other grades. We joined First and Fourth Grade for Lunch Buddies and a backyard scavenger hunt on Wednesday. It was so much fun! On Friday, we had Lunch Buddies with First Grade and will partner up with them again on Tuesday for movement. This buddy time is a great way to make new friends. Students love this time when they get to branch out and play with students from other grades. This leads them to feel more comfortable playing with these other students later on. Lunch Buddies is something we return to throughout the year.

Hopes and Dreams

Every year at The Cooper School, students create and display their hope or dream for the school year. This stays up for the entire year so that at the end of the year, we can look back and reflect to see if their hope or dream came true. This week, we started our discussion by brainstorming, “Why do we come to School?” We wrote these responses on chart paper. Some things your children said were: to learn new things, to learn to be kind, and to challenge themselves. We will use this later to help each other create hopes for the year.

Important Dates:

• Monday, September 4^th Labor Day (No School)
• Saturday, September 16^th TCS Yard Sale 8am-12pm
• Sunday, September 17^th New Parent Social 5:30-7:30pm
• Thursday, September 28^th Curriculum Night 5:30-6:30pm