Can it really be December???

Monday, December 11, 2017

I can hardly believe it's December already!  This year is flying by.  With December weather now upon us please send big coats, hats and gloves to school each day.  On most days we do go outside and are outside for around 20 minutes each time.  It gets very chili and lots of layers help us stay warm. 

A HUGE thank you to all the families that sent in dry erase markers!  We are stocked and ready to go.  We greatly appreciate it!

Beginning next week, we will start sharing about some of our families traditions.  In this week's Friday folder, you will find a bag.  Please put something small in the bag to represent a tradition your family has.  Then write a short bit about your families tradition on the attached sheet.  Have your child practice telling about the tradition.  We will take a few minutes each day to share them.  We did this last year, and it was a very neat time to learn a little more about each other.  

Learning Objectives:
Fundations:  We finished all our letters and sounds!  We are now learning about segmenting three letter words and blending them back together to read them.  We are also learning how to form capital letters and learning about placing our writing on the lines.
Reading:  We are reading Jan Brett books this week.  We have been looking for story clues in the pictures.  We have also practiced retelling the events in order.  
Writing:  We have learned what a personal narrative is.  We are writing stories about something that has happened in our life.  We are working on saying words slowly and writing all the sounds we hear. 
Math:  We are looking at shapes within shapes.  We also looked at 10s frames and with a quick flash and had to try to figure out how many dots were in the tens frames.  There was some fantastic language happening!  Lots of kids grouped the dots and added them together in their head.  Pretty amazing!

Here is our week in pictures!
Practicing our uppercase letters!


 We went to see a third grade's presentation about being safe online.





 Learning about shapes within shapes








Maker's Space



Here are the highlights from last week too!  

Mental Images of our Poem


Making Snowflakes






Our name was drawn at morning meeting to get the lego tub.  Our beautiful creations are in the case in the main hallway this week.






 Happy Birthday Friend!  Thanks for sharing treats!  







Things to Remember:
  • December 21 - Kindergarten Cozy Day
  • December 21- Winter Party
  • December 22-January 3rd- Winter Break
  • January 4 - School Resumes
  • January 11 - PTA meeting @ 6:30
  • January 15 - No School Martin Luther King Day
  • January 26 - Brown Bag Breakfast 8:00-8:30 ( More information to come in January.)

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