Hello Families!
I hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend! It's already December! Here is what's happening...
RSF DAY: Relatives and Special Friends Day is Friday. Just a review -
The Kindergarten will be singing all together in the auditorium at 9 am.
Your child's relative or special friend will be welcomed to our classroom from 9:30-10:30 to do fun stuff with us.
Please don't worry if your child doesn't have somebody coming. We will be sharing adults who come and everybody will be busy with our activities so everybody will be working together and happy!
FIELD TRIP FRIDAY AND FAMILY SING: Will be on Friday, Dec. 13th.
We will be having a FAMILY SING first thing in the morning.
We won't need any chaperones for this month's trip because we are going to be watching Mary Poppins and then creating chalk drawings out on 93rd Street so we can imagine jumping into them just as they do in the movie! Which leads me to one request - we would love to have donations of colorful sidewalk chalk. Thanks!
WHAT WE ARE UP TO:
In phonics we are going to focus on both snap words and ending sounds. Kids will be getting a new tool this week in their writing folders - an individual word wall. This has all of the snap words we have gone over so far and they will continue to add words as we go along.
In writing we are writing true stories. This week we will be working on rereading our own writing. So we will write a little, read a little - making sure that we can read our own work. We will also be focusing on remembering our whole stories. We do this by thinking of the story when drawing our pictures, telling and retelling our stories across our fingers before trying to put words on the page and looking back at the pictures when we get stuck.
In reading we are going to be building up our Book Talk Power! We will do this both as we read a book with a partner and then by retelling stories once we finish. Of course we will all the while be honing all of our reading super powers!
In math we are going to be working on making equivalent sets of objects. We will learn a game called Match My Set and also work on making sets with one more and one less. We will also be working with balance scales to compare using the terms heavier and lighter.
Stacie is coming on Tuesday to start teaching us a new and amazing song called Harmonize. This will also support this week's teaching of the book We Are All Wonders by R.J. Palacio which will be the touchstone text leading us to our special activity on Friday with our relatives and special friends.
We should be getting our new rug on Tuesday too - no more slip sliding around the floor! Yay!
Have a wonderful week!
Love,
Lynn