FOUR teachers :)

Hi everyone!

As it turns out, McKenzie no longer has three K teachers! We have four! Mrs. O'Keefe has joined our "ranks"! :) She spent a lot of good time preparing her classroom as we split up our over-flowing classes. Her room is beautiful too, with a fun dramatic play window, and lots of animal prints to make it all flow together.

This week at McKenzie we are jumping in to more learning! Our goal is for everyone in Kindergarten to KNOW their letter by October 1st and their letter sounds by November 1st. We are working so hard at practicing all our letters in our names, the alphabet, saying the sounds, and learning to spell new words. This week we are talking about what we "like" as we practice over and over the four letters that make up that word!

Computer lab has started! Thanks to some amazing teachers and helpers at our school, Kindergarten is working hard in the computer lab on reading-based programs. Today the kids were exclaiming that the computer knew their name and they spelled it on their own! It was so fun to see those minds getting excited over their fun new way to learn.

We are so thrilled to be in to week three here at McKenzie; we know our schedule, our routine, and how to act at school. There is SO much more to come... stayed "tuned"!