December 5-9
DATES:
Dec
19—Delayed start
Dec
21—1/2 day/Sing-a-long at 8:30
Christmas party, PJ day, gift exchange.
I’m sorry I forgot to send the book orders home last week! December book order now due by Thursday,
December 8. If they are gifts please send me a note and I will contact
you when the order arrives.
Please
remember to send in shoes every day. Gym shoes on Tuesday and Thursday. I don’t allow boots in the classroom as we are
on the floor often and we want to keep their clothing and floor dry and clean
for our activities. Children are welcome
to leave shoes in the bottom of their locker.
The
children are doing an amazing job getting ready to go outside for recess and
undressing after recess! Keep practicing
with zippers and putting on mittens!
It’s helping!!!
December
21 is our last day before Christmas vacation.
It is a half-day. Kindergarten is
having a PJ day! Children can come to
school in their PJ’s or change when they get here. If they come in PJ’s, have extra clothes in
their back pack just in case. At 8:30 we
go to the cafeteria to sing carols with the rest of the elementary, followed by
gift exchange and our party with a Christmas movie. For the gift exchange, each child brings a
gift between $3-5—wrapped. Girls buy for
girls and boys buy for boys. The tag
should read “To: a boy (or girl), From:
(your child’s name). (Art
supplies are a great idea!) Please have
the gift at school by Monday December 19.
We will have a class Christmas tree to put them under.
I
also forgot last week to include a list of what you signed up to bring for our
Christmas party—I have it this week! J
Reading: Jobs
Book: Whose shoes?
Letter: Oo
Sight Words: you, on
Vocabulary: equipment, uniform
Category Words: job words
Beanie Baby strategies: With a vowel this week, we are using Flippy the
Dolphin to remind us when sounding out a word we may have to flip the vowel to
either a short or long vowel to make the word make sense! Chunky Monkey helps
us chunk up the work to learn to sound out –like /s/ at for sat, /m/ at for mat, etc. Dot the Giraffe reminds us to look at the end
marks and use our voice to reflect wither a period, exclamation or question
mark.
Writing: We write every day in our journals—December
journals are mostly related to Christmas and families. We will also be continuing our work on making
pattern books.
Math: Math this week will be looking at teen
numbers, reminding them that teen numbers start with a 1! Then we will look at making numbers (1+2=3,
3+1=4, 2+2=4)
Science/Social Studies: December will be a month of exploring our 5
senses as well as reading about Christmas and holiday things families do.
Christmas
party
24
plates—Nathan
24
napkins—Levi
24
cups—Payton
1
container raspberry sherbet—Natalia
1
container raspberry sherbet—Lyndon
1
2-Liter 7-Up—Abby
1
2-Liter 7-Up—Emelia
Apple
Juice—Natalia
24
candy canes—Brian
Finger
Jell-o—Kaitlyn
Snack
Mix—Sophie
Cheese
& Crackers—Bailee
Hot
Cho mix for January sledding party—Easton
Parent
Volunteers for the party—Ashley C, Jessica O, Katiane M, RJ
Student of the Week: Chloe
Chloe
is silly, very outgoing, loves learning!
Her favorite food is apples.
Chloe’s favorite movie is Tinker Bell. She wants to learn as fast as she can and
make friends. Her favorite books are Princess Adventure stories, Rapunzel and
Little Mermaid.
