November 28-December 2

DATES:

Dec 19—Delayed start

Dec 21—1/2 day/Sing-a-long at 8:30/Christmas party,

    PJ day, gift exchange.

Thank you so much for your donations and help with everything with Stone Soup!  The children had a great time!  There wasn’t much soup left!  A few went back for seconds!

Please send in the November Book-it calendar.  December has been sent home.

December book order due by Monday December 5.  If they are gifts please send me a note and I will contact you when the order arrives.

We had our Pizza party for being in first place with the Coins for Kids!  The children enjoyed pizza, cinnamon sticks and a small glass of pop.

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 will include a list of items you signed up to bring for the party.

I am attaching a list of the sight words Kindergarten needs to know by June.  We will be through the first 15 this month.  Report cards go home the end of January.

I hope you enjoyed reading through the November journals.  Remember the notebooks you brought in the first week of school are your child’s scrapbooks!  Hang on to the journals if you want them in the scrapbook!

READING:  We are reading about places we go (neighborhood, community)

Comprehension:  setting, character, events of the story

         (As you read with your child, have a discussion of where the story takes place, who is in the story and what is going on in the story)  Have your child retell the story to you.

Letter: Cc

Sight Words:  go, in

Vocabulary:  routine, neighborhood

Category Words:  sequence words (first, next, then, last,)

Writing:  We have begun our December journals.  We are also looking at pattern books and will be writing a pattern book of things we see.

Math:  Sorting and identifying shapes according to attributes—what is the shape, is it big, small, thick, thin, what color is it?, etc.)

Science/Social Studies:  December will be a month of exploring our 5 senses as well as reading about Christmas and holiday things families do.