Ms. Braun’s Kindergarten  Room 6 Scholars 

 

We are Scholars! 
Kindergartners started the year off on a positive note. 

Week of September 9, 2019 

What a great start to our school year! We had four learning- and 
community-filled days. We learned about how to be Scholars in Room 6 
and we also learned how to be Scholars across environments in our 
school. Ask your Scholar how they show POWER on the playground and 
in the cafeteria. We had our first PE (physical education), music, art, 
REACH (technology), and library classes this week. We celebrated 
Dahlia’s birthday and also got to spend time learning about being safe in 
case of a fire at school. Ask your Scholar how they think a Scholar 
would act while learning in the classroom. 

At Mendota we call our students Scholars because we know that they 

are here to learn and have endless capacity to grow and lead. We also 
use Scholar POWER as a way to guide our behavior. Ask your Scholar 
what Scholar Power cards mean and how they can earn them. They 
may have already earned one!
  
  
 What we did this week 
Learning links 

Literacy work 
Next week we will learn the letters ​a, t, ​and ​m.  
This week we read several fun, back-to-school books: ​First Day Jitters, 
The Lorax, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, a ​ nd ​E-mergency. ​These books 
helped us learn about retelling a story so that we will be able to retell 
other stories during independent work time. Ask your Scholar what the 
important parts of retelling a story are (beginning, middle, and end).  

Math work 
Next week we will work on noticing attributes.  
This week we started our Number Corner routine. This is a time when 
we get to learn about numbers, count the days we’ve been in school, 
and build counting fluency. Ask your Scholar who Hap the happy 
grasshopper is! 

Date  Upcoming events 

Every Monday  Early release - 1:15 pm 
Every Tuesday and Thursday  Food Pantry is open at Mendota  
Tuesday 2:30-5:30 / Thursday 1-3 
 

  

 
 
elbraun@madison.k12.wi.us 
608-204-7883 
Mendotakinders.com