Newsletter Updates for the Week of December 7th

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-Thursday, December 17th—Christmas Party (pm) - Wear your Christmas Sweater

-Friday, December 18th—Pajama Day for Kindergartners, Sing-a-long, & Movie

STUDENT OF THE WEEK: 

Our student of the week is Adriauna Carpenter.  Adriauna enjoys doing puzzles, cooking, and coming to school.  Her favorite movie is “Frozen” and she loves to eat tomatoes!  Her goals for this year include learning to tie her shoes and learning to read (which she is well on her way). Congratulations to Adriauna on being Student of the Week!

CHRISTMAS GIFT EXCHANGE:

I know many of you are beginning your Christmas shopping. For our class Christmas party, we are planning to have a gift exchange. We are asking that girls bring a gift for a girl and boys bring a gift for a boy.  Please select a gift that is between $3.50-$4.00 and send it to school wrapped and labeled with who it is FROM (To: a girl  From: Mrs. Brinks).  Our party will be held Thursday, December 17th in the afternoon.

READING: 

This week our class will be reading stories about the places we visit in our neighborhoods and communities. Your child will talk about these places and the people we see and visit there.

Here are some activities that you can do with your child to help reinforce the skills we will be practicing.

· Vocabulary—routine, neighborhood  - Talk about a weekend routine in the neighborhood. Use the words first, next, then, and last.

· High-Frequency Word—go & in— Practice writing the words go and in and take turns using them in a sentence. Ask the question: Where do you like to go? Invite your child to complete the sentence: I like to go to the ___.

· Category Words—sequence words—Play a game called “What are we going to do?” Encourage your child to use sequence words such as first, next, then, and last.

· Phonics—Letter Cc—Play a rhyming game and invite your child to guess words that begin with the letter c. If your child does not guess the word, give another clue. Then make a list of the words your child guesses correctly. Read the list together.

· Comprehension—character, setting, events—Guide your child in telling a story. Ask your child to think of the characters in the story, where the story takes place, and what events will happen. As your child tells the story, write it down.

WRITING:  

This week we will continue to learn about pattern books and practice writing our own pattern books about things we like. We will complete a class book about things we see using the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? as inspiration.  We will continue to work on sounding out our words, writing the sounds we hear, and putting spaces between our words. :)

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:  

This week we will continue our Social Studies unit on Families.  We will also continue our Science unit on the 5 Senses; we will be reading several books about our senses of smell, touch, and taste and conduct several experiments related to these senses.

MATH:  

This week we will work on identifying and sorting objects and shapes according to various attributes (shape, color, size, thickness, etc).  We will collect classroom data about everyone’s favorite color and create a digital pictograph and the students will be introduced to the calculator app on their ipads.

We are in need of more baby wipes (any brand), 

if anyone is willing to donate another package to the classroom:)