Welcome

Hello PHS Kindergarten Families! Welcome to the 2019-2020 school year of Kindergarten at Panorama Hills School. We are very excited to share your child's learning experiences with you through this blog this year. We will be sharing regular updates including photographs, details on what we are working on and important details about our year in Kindergarten.

We Thinkers!

In Kindergarten, we focus a lot on our social skills and how to kind, caring, helpful, empathetic, responsible, and attentive in the classroom. Working with our team of our Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), Occupational Therapist (OT), and Physical Therapist (PT), and Therapy Assistant, we are using the We Thinkers! series to help engage our learners and learn about many social skills. Here is more information about what we have learned about so far: 

1) Whole Body Listening: "Whole body listening is when your eyes, ears, mouth, hands, arms, legs, and feet are calm and quiet. When you listen with your whole body it helps you pay attention to what people are doing around you and it shows others you are thinking about them."

Here is more information- Click here!

2) Thinking Thoughts and Feeling Feelings: "Social learning is all about thoughts and feelings. The ability to think about others, play collaboratively and establish friendships is all about thoughts; knowing our own, sharing them with others and taking others’ thoughts into account as we act and react."

Here is more information- Click here!

Poems and Songs!

Here are the songs and poems we sing daily in our Kindergarten Classroom! We are sharing them with you so that you can sing them along with your child.

5 Little Pumpkins:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm1qvX1ygOo

Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate,

The first one said "Oh my, it's getting late!"

The second one said "There are witches in the air,"

The third one said "but we don't care!"

The fourth one said "Let's run and run and run."

The fifth one said "I'm ready for some fun!"

Then Ooooooooo went the wind, and out went the lights,

And the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.

Way Up High In The Apple Tree:

Mother Nature, Did You Sneeze?:

"Red leaves, yellow leaves, orange leaves, brown,

Big leaves, little Leaves, on the ground,

Everywhere are falling leaves,

Mother nature did you sneeze?

A- A- Chooo!"

Counting Snowflakes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee639qaoYnE

Well, I'm just sitting outside, counting the snowflakes

one two three four five.

Six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve.

Thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen,

twenty little snowflakes on the ground.

Let's count! One two three four five six seven, eight nine ten eleven.

Twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen,

twenty!

Yeah!

Well, I'm just sitting outside, counting the snowflakes one two three four five.

Six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve.

Thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen,

twenty little snowflakes on the ground.

Lot's of little snowflakes coming down.