Friday, December 14, 2018

Happy Holidays and yes, only 4 days next week!!!

We will enjoy a week taking a look at the many holidays that are celebrated this time of year and reading lots of books helping us learn more! Math and Writing will continue with a holiday theme too.

On Thursday, we will have our Holiday Party from 11:30-1:00.  Our Room Moms, Lindsay and Kim, sent an email with all the info and details of how you can help. I look forward to seeing all of you!

Hope you all enjoy a very relaxing winter break! See you next year!!!

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Dear Families,

Happy December. We are working hard during this short month and getting ready to be on our nice long vacation!

Star of the Week:  Please look at the schedule, right hand side of this post, to see when it is your child's turn to be Star. If the week I have chosen doesn't work for you, please let me know and we can change it. There is a lot of flexibility with this program so feel free to change the activities to best suit your family. Have fun and we can't wait to learn more about all our Stars!

Language Arts: Our stories continue to be fiction stories that help us work with cause and effect.

Grammar:  We will start to learn about contractions and continue to find words with long vowel sounds.

Writer's Workshop: We will celebrate with our friends now that we completed our opinion writing. Enjoy reading it with your child when it comes home.

Word Wall Words: Your children will learn new word wall words each week and together we will put them on our Word Wall. Listed below are the word wall words from Kindergarten. It is my hope that you will make a word wall at home or make flashcards to practice daily with your child. This will help your child with reading, writing, and spelling.

New Word Wall Words:    now        over      old

as a are am also all and after about by be because can come could do day every each first from favorite friend find for good girl get go her his house he have here is I know little like me my make many most of one once of other play people she saw said see there time they that this the to the this to very what water where went will we with was want your you
  
Phonograms: These are letters that when put together make one or more sounds. We will learn several phonograms each week to help us read, write and spell. Look for the completed phonogram worksheet in your child's folder.

Math: We are working with subtraction using this skill in word problems as well as reviewing telling time to the hour and half hour.

Spirit Days 
December 12... Ugly Sweater Day
January 23....... Pajama Day
February 6.......Crazy Clothes Day
March 6.......... Crazy Hat Day
April 17.......... Super Hero Day
May 8............. Hawaiian Day