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!