So as I am sure you all know our elf, Snowflake, came last week to keep an eye on us during the holiday season and has been moving around our room since he arrived in his makeshift hot air balloon! Snowflake even left us a poster with Santa’s Tips for staying on the nice! Unfortunately Snowflake left our classroom at lunch on Friday and we were all super sad and a little nervous because we are hoping it wasn’t because of our behavior. I just know that this week we are all going to be trying very hard to stay on the nice list! Here is a picture of the poster he left in our room.
In Unit Studies we will finish up our Around the World book
and will be packing/making a suitcase and getting a passport so we can start
traveling the world to learn about more cultures and their celebrations. We
will be traveling after our afternoon recess to different countries/classrooms
and learning about celebrations people have in Africa, Israel, Holland, and
Germany. We will be learning about Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, the wooden shoe, and the
Christmas tree. It is going to be a super fun week of learning about different
cultures – we will also learn some songs and will start practicing for our
program that is Friday, Dec. 19th at 12:30 in the auditorium! We
hope you are all able to come!
In Math we will be continuing to talk about teen numbers and
seeing the group of ten and ones. We will also be looking at different
attribute cards (which is a fancy name for shapes) and will be exploring with
them to sort them by color, shape, and size and we will make patterns with them
too! We will also be learning about the equals and not equals signs and
comparing numbers. We will continue to tell and solve more story problems and a
great time to practice story problems at home is during dinner – for example
you could say “we had 6 rolls on the plate and we ate 3 of them, how many do we
have left?” or “I ate 3 chicken nuggets and then had 2 more, how many chicken
nuggets did I have altogether?” or you can even ask your child if they can come
up with a problem of their own.
During Literacy our essential question this week is “How can
people help to make your community better” which is a wonderful topic to
discuss and I am excited to hear the conversations we will have this week about
pitching in and making our community the best that it can be! We will be
reading the following stories – “Roadwork”, “A Community Garden”, and “The
Bundle of Sticks”. In our crabby books we will be reading “I Can You Can” and
in guided reading your child will either read “Can you Fix It” or “We Clean”.
Our vocabulary words are community, improve, confused, harvest, and quarrel.
Again this week we will be focusing on those key details of the story and
answering and asking questions when we read. This is actually a review week and
next week we are suppose to learn the word “my” and focus in on the letter H
but we will be switching those around because next week will be a little crazy
with our program so this week we will learn about “my” and “h”! I will also be
assessing quite a bit this week for report cards! Always so much to do!
It is sure to be a fast and fun week again in Kindergarten!
I hope that Snowflake has nothing but good news to report!
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