End of December 2016 first week back in 2017

Dec 21—1/2 day/Sing-a-long at 8:30

Christmas party, PJ day, gift exchange.

January 3—school resumes

Book order should arrive any day!

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.

Christmas party sign up

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

We will be working on the following some this week and the first week back in January.

Reading:

Book:  Roadwork

Letter: Review Ii, Nn, Oo, Cc, Dd

Sight Words:  First 15 sight words

Vocabulary:  improve, community

Category Words: position 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 a period, exclamation or question mark.

Writing:  We write every day in our journals—December journals go home on Wednesday.  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: Finishing our exploration of our 5 senses as well as reading about Christmas and holiday things families do.
When we return in January we will begin investigating winter.

Student of the Week: Sophie

Sophie likes to color.  She likes the color blue and zebras.  Her favorite foods are spaghetti, fries and cupcakes.  Her favorite movie is Tangled and favorite book is The Lion King.  She wants to be a doctor and get a cat.