Reindeer Day

We read the Wild ChristMassage Reindeer by Jan Brett and made antlers to wear and got red noses.  Only 1 1/2 days left til Christmas break!!

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Kindergarten News

Week of December 12-16, 2016

Mark your calendar:

Winter party:  Friday, December 16^th 10:00-11:00

Early dismissal:  Friday, December 16^th at noon

Winter Holidays:  December 19^th-January 3^rd 

School resumes: January 4^th

Cold weather clothes = lots of buttons, snaps and zippers!  Many children could use some practice putting on and taking off their jackets and sweatshirts.  Outerwear should be loose enough to go on and off without assistance.  Also, if your child brings a jacket/sweatshirt, please make sure his or her name is inside it. J

RCE is celebrating the upcoming winter holiday!  The teachers have been dressing with a theme for the last week, and we’d like the kids to join in the fun next week.  This is just for fun; no need to go out and purchase anything extra.  Just participate if you can!

Monday:  Wear a Grinch shirt or wear green

Tuesday:  Wear your coziest holiday socks

Wednesday:  Wear reindeer antlers and paint your nose red

Thursday:  Wear a jingle bell

Friday:  Rock your favorite holiday shirt and CELEBRATE!  Our winter break is here!

Please send a heavy snack or a light lunch with your child on Friday, December 16^th. We want to be sure the kids eat a little something before they leave at noon.  Send whatever suits your child - a muffin, fruit, a sandwich, breakfast bar, cheese stick, etc. 

COINS FOR CUSTODIANS & CAFETERIA WORKERS

Please send some loose change to school this week to put in the Santa jar in the office.  We’re doing a school-wide collection to divvy up among some of our very hard-working and least appreciated people.  It would be good if your child could donate so they learn to understand that giving is one way to show our appreciation to others.  Thanks, in advance, for your kindness.

It’s time to tie!  Please help us by helping your child learn to tie his/her shoes.  There are lots of great YouTube videos with many different methods.  Grab an old shoe and practice over the holiday.

Theme: Happy Holidays

Reading:  Shared reading and Interactive read-alouds about holiday themes, making predictions, re-telling the story, recalling the sequence of events and discussing the characters, setting, problem, the rising action and solution/conclusion in a story that forms a story arc.

Writing:  Writers Workshop!  Shared, interactive and modeled writing and Independent writing continue. We use a book format to write our own stories.

Word Wall Words:  REVIEW: red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black, my, is, to, like, can, see, go, the, in, it, all, me, and, big, has, on, we, but, look, at, little, for, he, said, was

We are testing the children on their sight words.  Please review the words.  They need to be able to read them quickly by sight (not sounding them out). J

Word Family:  Review -at, -an, -all families

Math: Review: tally marks, graphing, counting aloud, counting sets, counting objects with one to one correspondence, and determining more/less (Focus is numeracy to 20).

Science:   Continuing force and motion

Social Studies:  Holiday Traditions

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

·       Monday:  Ask your family what their favorite holiday symbol is:  dreidel, Christmas tree, or a candy cane?  Record their answers with tally marks!

·       Tuesday:  Write a sentence using the word SAID and a sentence using the word WAS.

·       Wednesday:  Put five toys in a line.  Practice describing them using your ordinal numbers (first, second, etc.)

·       Thursday:  Visit www.raz-kids.com

·       Friday: Enjoy family time, read a story, and/or play outside!

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Kindergarten News

Week of December 5-9, 2016

Colder weather means the kids are wearing jackets, sweaters and hoodies to school in the morning.  We try hard to keep up with all the outerwear, but sometimes things get misplaced.  Please put your child’s name in every jacket they wear to school so it can be easily returned. 

Next Wednesday, December 7^th, all kindergarten teachers will be out at a workshop.  If you have changes of transportation for that day, please be sure to put them in writing in your child’s folder.

Mark your calendar:

Winter party:  Friday, December 16^th 10:00-11:00

Early dismissal Friday, December 16^th at noon.

Winter Holidays December 19^th-January 3^rd. 

School resumes on January 4^th.

Theme: Holidays

Reading:  This week we will continue to enjoy the books with a holiday theme, focusing on retelling using story arcs.  Creating story arcs will aide us as we write our own narratives.  We’ll also look at the characters in the story and talk about character traits.

Writing:  Book writing continues.  The children are learning to revise and edit their writing, adding elements and details to make their stories interesting to read.  We continue to stress capital letters, ending punctuation, and appropriate spacing.

Word Wall Words:  REVIEW: red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black, my, is, and, big, to, like, has, on, can, see, we, but, go, the, in, it, all, me, little, for, look, at, said, he

NEW WORD FOR THE WEEK:   WAS

We are testing the children on their sight words.  Please review the words J

Word Study: This week, we will work with the word family ALL (call, mall, fall, tall, small, etc). 

Math: During math workshop, we will reinforce the skill of more and less.  Specifically, we will use this concept to help us solve story problems.  We will also create numeral sets to 20, count aloud to 75, and back/forth to 30.  We will tally and graph! Our main focus continues to be a strong numeracy to 20.

Science: We continue our exploration of magnets and magnetism

Social Studies:  Holiday traditions

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

• Monday: Make a list of -ALL words. 
• Tuesday: Visit www.raz-kids.com 

• Wednesday: Be a magnet detective!  Walk around your house with a magnet.  Make a list of 5 things that are magnetic. 
• Thursday:  Do an act of kindness for someone in your family.  Be ready to share in class tomorrow!
• Friday:  Return your library books and practice your home reader!  Send your bag on Monday.