DECEMBER 4-8

DATES:

Dec 15: Family movie night  (CANCELLED!)

(Polar Express—wear Pj’s!)

Dec 18:  Delayed Start

Dec 20: Wear your favorite 

             ugly or beautiful

          sweater/shirt to school

            Christmas party (PM)

 Dec 21:  PJ day, sing along (AM)  

               ½ day (dismissal 11:35)

Dec 22-Jan 2: Christmas break

Thank you again for having hat, mittens, shoes and folders---all the necessary supplies for your child to have a successful day!  It helps them to be ready to learn!

Please send notes for bus changes to school with your child if possible.

CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES:

For our Christmas party on December 20 in the afternoon, the children are going to do a gift exchange.  Girls will buy a girl gift and boys a boy gift.  They will put to a girl or boy on the tag and then from them. 

(Example: 

To a girl. From Ms. Thompson). 

The children can bring in their gifts any time!  Our tree is up!

  Our helpers for party day are Deseray T and Niki V.  Our party will be at 2:00 as we have gym and recess in the afternoon. 

Party donations:

24 plates:  Madelyn

24 Christmas napkins: Kenzie

24 cups:  Carolina

1 container rasp sherbet: Drake

1 container rasp sherbet____?

Finger Jello:  Drake

Snack mix:  Zimmie

Party day is also wear your favorite ugly or beautiful Christmas sweater or shirt day!

Our last day is a half-day and we will be wearing our PJ’s to school! 

READING:

LETTER: Oo

SIGHT WORDS:  you, on

VOCABULARY:  equipment, uniform

CATEGORY WORDS:  jobs

Our big book is about jobs and tools needed to do different jobs.

We are learning to blend letters together to make words. 

WRITING:  We are learning about pattern books (such as Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see). We will be writing our own pattern book next week.

SCIENCE and SOCIAL STUDIES:

We continue to learn about senses. 

MATH:

We are working on tricky teens—learning that the teen numbers begin with 1!  We also will be building hexagon shapes using smaller combinations of shapes from our pattern blocks.

We learned the ‘Line’em up ap’ to help us learn to put numbers in order.  We started with 1-10, as they become comfortable with it, we will move up to 11-20.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:

Justin

Justin has 6 goats; he loves mud trucks and someday wants to be a rock star!  His favorite movie is Moana. 

Justin likes PB & J, chicken nuggets and pizza.  He wants to have the best year ever at school and move to 1^st grade!  He also wants to see the butterflies make it back to Mi

November 27-December 1

DATES:

Dec 15: Family movie night

Dec 18:  Delayed Start

Dec 20: Christmas party (PM)

Dec 21:  PJ day, sing along (AM)   

                 ½ day

Dec 22-Jan 2: Christmas break

READING:

Letter Cc

Sight words:  go, in

Vocabulary:  routine, neighborhood

Category words:  sequence words

Our big book is Please Take Me for a Walk.  It’s about a dog and the neighborhood.

Comprehension:  we are learning about character, setting and events in a story

WRITING:

November journals go home Thursday and we begin December on Friday.  The children are learning to sound out words, leave spaces between words and use end marks.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:

December we will talk about families and our 5 senses at Christmas time.

MATH:  We are working on counting to 50, identifying and sorting shapes according to shape, size, color, thickness (attributes).  The children will be introduced to a calculator ap on the Ipad, and we will do a class graph on our favorite colors.  The children have also made a count down to Christmas chain.  Each night they tear or cut off a ring and when they get to the yellow one it will be Christmas.

Thank you again for having hat, mittens, shoes and folders---all the necessary supplies for your child to have a successful day!  It helps them to be ready to learn!

Please send notes for bus changes to school with your child if possible.

Thank you for all your donations for our Thanksgiving/Stone Soup feast!  The children had a very busy and fun week!  Thank you to Alexis Presson for coming in to help us cut veggies and to help serve/clean up!  We could not have done it without you!

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:

Reese:

Reese has horses, she can ride her bike without training wheels and she has 23 1^st  cousins!  Reese likes cereal, chips and cheese, chips and ketchup!  Her goals are to learn to read and learn math.  Her favorite movie is Descendants 2!

CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES:

For our Christmas party on December 20 in the afternoon, the children are going to do a gift exchange.  Girls will buy a girl gift and boys a boy gift.  They will put to a girl or boy on the tag and then from them. (Example: 

To a girl. From Ms. Thompson). 

 Our helpers for party day are Deseray T and Niki V.  Our party will be at 2:00 as we have gym and recess in the afternoon. 

Party donations:

24 plates:  Madelyn

24 Christmas napkins: Kenzie

24 cups:  Carolina

1 container rasp sherbet: Drake

1 container rasp sherbet____?

Finger Jello:  Drake

Snack mix:  Zimmie

  

Our last day is a half-day and we will be wearing our PJ’s to school!