I hope that you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving and my friends had a good
break. I also hope that they are ready to get back to school and are
ready for a fun, fast 16 days! We will be doing a lot over the next 3
weeks and we don't have any time to waste!
I am thinking that one of Santa's scout elves will probably be coming to
keep an eye on us during this crazy time to make sure we all stay on
the nice list! Our elf, George, came to my house this past weekend to
keep on eye on Henry, Lily, and Macy so I am sure Snowflake will be
arriving anyday now to keep watch over my friends while they are here at
school! I am crossing my fingers for excellent behavior because like I
said we have lots to do!
In Literacy we will be focusing on the letter d and the word "do". Our
vocabulary words are appreciate, culture, prefer, proud, and tradition.
We will be reading "What Can You Do With a Paleta?", "Cultural
Festivals", "A World of Festivals", and in our crabby books we will read
"Sid" and in guided reading your child will read either "Neighborhood
Party" or "Parade Day". If we can squeeze in any holiday books we will
be doing that too! We will work on our comprehension skills as well when
we are reading stories and will be talking about the character,
setting, and the events that take place throughout the book. We will be
blending and segmenting words and also reading silly/nonsense words this
week to get ready for our Quarter 2 assessments!
In writing we will be continuing to learn more about what good writer's
do - the CAPS man really helps us remember that every sentence starts
with a Capital letter, we need Art work to match our story, also
Punctuation marks go at the end of every sentence, and between every
word we need Spaces!
In math we will be working hard on learning those teen numbers, we are
going to practice solving and telling oral story problems and again
reviewing the different strategies we can use to solve story problems.
We will be exploring with a balance to compare how much things weigh and
we will be using vertical and horizontal graphs to show our results! We
will also be talking a lot about number partners and working on our
counting mats!
In Unit Studies we are starting one of my favorite units (I know that I
say that about all of the units but this one really is a good one) we
will start learning about People and Celebrations. It is so neat to
talk about our own family traditions around the holidays but also so
neat to talk about how different cultures celebrate. We will be making a
booklet and talking about what we might see if we were to actually
travel around the world! It is sure to be a fun busy week!
Please make sure you are free to come to our Celebrations Around the World
Program on Tuesday, Dec. 22nd at 1:00 in the auditorium. You will be
getting an invitation soon but wanted to give you a heads up that it
will probably last around 30 minutes. I hope that you are all able to
make it!
I can't believe it is December and we are almost done with the second quarter of kindergarten!
Also Ms. Shipley's last day is this Friday - December 4th - which is super crazy and I know all of my friends will miss her so very much as will I because I don't know how I will ever manage without her - she helps us all out so much each and every day- so hopefully we will have a super great week since it is her last week with us!
Also please remember that this Thursday, December 3rd is our Family Math Night from 5:30-6:30. I hope you all can make it to this fun family night!
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