Hello Families!
We had a wonderful "Old Favorite Parade" during last Friday's Town Hall. Thank you to the parents who were able to come help us get dressed in our costumes! I am attaching a video that Olivia's mom took of part of the parade so you can see all your little elephants.
Here is all the news this week...
ABC SCHOOL: As part of our phonics "Word Scientists" unit of study, the kids are asked to bring in one stuffed animal so they can teach them everything they know about the abc's! The stuffies is just a one day thing - we will ask them to join us this WEDNESDAY, 11/20 please. If your child doesn't have one, I have a few extra in our class and I'm sure I can borrow even more from other classes. Thank you!
NO SCHOOL NOV. 28 & 29: For Thanksgiving.
RELATIVES AND SPECIAL FRIENDS DAY 12/6: The first Friday in December is not going to be the usual Field Trip Friday & Family Sing because it will be "Relatives and Special Friends Day" at MSC. The kindergarten will be singing a few songs in the auditorium for the attendees and then after other greetings and such, people will come up to spend an hour in the classroom. In our class we will be singing some more songs and then working on a project together. Quite lovely!
WHAT WE ARE UP TO:
In phonics we are celebrating what we already know about the alphabet and sounds of letters by holding an "ABC SCHOOL." We are also going to be learning more snap words and sharpening up using our alphabet chart as a tool to help us write.
In writing we are writing pattern books using the snap words we have learned so far which are on our Word Wall. We know we can gather certain words together to form sentences and then use that sentence to create a pattern book. After we have written some pattern books we will focus on how our books end. Will be break the pattern and bring everything together in a statement? Wait and see!
In reading we keep discovering new super powers! Last week we discovered that we have Picture Power! We can use the pictures to help us read tricky words! We also activated our Snap Word Power - and we know we can use snap words to anchor our pointer power when we read. This week we will be practicing using all of those powers together - no small feat but superhero readers can do it! We will also use what we know about snap words and initial sounds in words to help us read.
In math we are going to be comparing numbers. We will be using our names to count and compare the number of letters in our names, create name trains, and have some math discussions regarding that. We will learn a card game called Compare which you might know as War (but that name is too unfriendly for kindergarten!)
In social studies we have Stacie coming to do a lesson with her song I Feel. Your kids are going to be experts in communicating their feelings! We are practicing using appropriate feeling words while we play every day! We are also going to do some work in opening up our School study.
In science we are continuing our weather tracking on Wednesdays and we will also work on a science/math experiment with our remaining apples from the Farmers Market trip. We will be asking and answering the question, "Do all apples have the same number of seeds?" We will search, count and compare our outcomes.
Since it has gotten good and cold - please check that your child's change of clothes in case of accident has the appropriate type of clothing (meaning no shorts & short sleeves.) Thank you!
Well, have a great week and enjoy the video!
Love,
Lynn