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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.