DATES TO REMEMBER:
-November 24th & 25th—Thanksgiving Break
-Monday, Dec. 12th—Delayed Start
STUDENT OF THE WEEK: Our student of the week is Camden Powell. Camden enjoys playing football and basketball and his favorite color is blue. Camden also enjoys hunting with his dad and he would like to be a Forest Ranger when he grows up. Congratulations to Camden on being student of the week!
THANKSGIVING/STONE SOUP: This week will be a busy week for us in Kindergarten. Here’s what we have planned for each day:
Tuesday, November 22nd: Cutting Up Vegetables
Parent Volunteers: J. Bell & Nana Alice
Wednesday, November 23rd: The Feast
Supplies Needed:
-24 Paper Plates—Maisie
-24 Bowls—Kaden
-24 Spoons—Baylie
-24 Napkins—Claydon
-24 Cups—Taylor
-2 2 Liters of 7-up—Ryan
Parent Volunteer: G. Cook
Thank you for donating supplies to make our Thanksgiving Celebration a success!!!
WINTER CLOTHING: Looks like we can’t hold Old Man Winter off any longer. With Winter upon us, please be sure to label all of your child’s items with their name, as we have several duplicates in the class and it becomes very difficult to sort out who’s is who’s. Students will still be going outside for recess 3 times each day, unless the office deems it too cold. I always dry their mittens on the heater between recesses so that they have dry mittens, but this can also lead to confusion when determining which mittens belong to whom. Also, please consider sending your child with slip-on or Velcro shoes for the winter as laces make the transition before and after recess more time consuming for the students. Mrs. Kelley asked me to remind parents to please be sure to send tennis shoes on gym days and also that Speed Stack orders are due by Wednesday, Nov. 30th.
READING: Due to our short week, this week we will review the letters B, M, & S and introduce the letter T as we will be reading several books about Turkeys. We will be working on the sightwords: see & am. At strategy groups, students will practice identifying beginning sounds and reading their Thanksgiving Colors booklets so that they can bring them home over the long weekend to read to their families.
WRITING: This week we will be writing about Thanksgiving. We will be reading the book Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving and writing about where a good place for a turkey to hide might be. We will also be composing a class letter to Farmer MacNugget regarding his missing turkeys. On Wednesday, we will be completing a Type 3 writing about what we’d like to eat for Thanksgiving.
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES: This week we will learn the difference between wants and needs and make a list of our ‘needs’ for making Stone Soup. The students will determine what a ‘fair trade’ is and practice making ‘fair trades’ with the other kindergarten classes in order to acquire all of the needed ingredients for our Stone Soup. We will work together as a ‘classroom community’ to prepare our Stone Soup and in the spirit of the very first Thanksgiving, on Thursday, the students will dress up like Pilgrim children and feast together on Stone Soup and corn bread.
MATH: This week we will be acting out some story problems involving ‘adding’ and ‘taking away’ objects. We will also practice sequencing the days of the week and on Wednesday, we will graph our favorite food from our feast.
Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving Break!!!
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