December 10-14, 2018

DATES:

Dec. 17:  Delayed start

Dec. 19:  Wear your favorite Christmas sweater or shirt

Dec 20 ½ day & Christmas party

Dec 21  ½ day, Sing along, PJ day

Our Christmas party is scheduled for December 20 in the morning as it is a half day.  Girls will bring a gift for a girl and boys a boy gift (between $3-$5). Please label the tag TO: a (girl or boy) FROM:  have your child write his/her name.  Please don’t specify a specific child on the tag.  We will play a game to see who gets what gift!

The children can begin to bring in their gifts any time!  Please have them to school by December 18!

READING:

Our story is Whose shoes?  A shoe for every job

We will be learned about tools different jobs need.

SIGHT WORDS:  you & on

LETTER:  Oo

VOCABULARY:  equipment & uniform

CATEGORY WORDS:  jobs

WRITING:  We continue to work on our journals daily.  Fun to see the growth as the weeks go by!  We will be working on pattern books—making one similar to Brown Bear, Brown Bear.  We will call it Children, Children What do you see?

MATH:

We’ve played Monster Squeeze, been practicing reading numbers (especially the tricky teens!), building numbers using 10 frames to 20, and we built hexagons using trapezoids, triangles and rhombus shapes!

SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES:

We are continuing to work on motion.  We are conducting an experiment on force by playing a bowling experiment with beach balls, us blowing through straws to knock over water bottles with a small amount of sand in the bottom.

Hope you all enjoyed the Christmas concert!  Rambler Review was there and you can find it on their Facebook page.  We watched it the next day!  Kids were so excited to see what the program was like –not to mention how cool to see themselves!!

We had a few things left over from our Thanksgiving activity.  Here is what was on the sign up sheet for our Christmas party that we could still use:

24 plates:  T’yondre

24 napkins:  Kenadie

24 cups:  Gradyn

24 candy canes: Leah

Finger Jello: Cam

Snack mix:  Wyatt M

Cheese & Crackers:  Charlee

Helpers:  Amy, April

Have a great weekend!

Melissa