Week of December 19, 2016

During our literacy block, we will continue to work on fairy tales and retelling the story by acting out or story maps.  We will be reading "Lon Po Po",  "The Little Red Hen" and "The Gingerbread Boy".  We are continuing to chart our holiday traditions and then we will write about a tradition our family has and share our writing with our friends.

In math we are working with shapes and graphing this week.  We also will be introduced to the calculator.

We continue to work on holiday projects and listen to holiday stories.

Our letter/words of the week are:  "Ff", all, my

Thank you to all the parents who came to conferences.   I really enjoyed meeting with everyone.

REMINDER:
Friday, December 23rd is an early dismissal day and our mom's or someone special lunch at 11:15.   Please bring a lunch for you and your child.  After lunch, we will make our candy houses.

Have a safe and Happy Holiday!

It's time for morning work!  We come in and get started.  We are writing in our journals.

Week of December 12, 2016

During our literacy block we continue to read and retell fairy tales.  This week we will read another version of "Cinderella".  We will read "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" and "The Little Red Hen."  We are retelling - characters, setting, beginning, middle and end.

During math we will be working with numbers and writing numbers.  We will sequence numbers.  We also will be working with shapes.

We are going to continue to share our December holiday traditions and then start to write about
one of our traditions.

Please continue to practice sight words and letters/letter sounds.  This week our letter of the week is "Rr" and our words are:  went, said.

REMINDER:
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week are early dismissal days for parent conferences.

Special News:
Giovanni's birthday was Friday and to celebrate Giovanni invited his dad,  a police officer, to come into our class and talk about his job.  It was a very exciting afternoon and the children learned a lot.
Thank you so much for your visit Officer Ed.

We enjoy indoor recess too on rainy, windy days.

Week of December 5, 2016

This week during our literacy block we will continue to read fairy tales and retell - characters, setting, beginning, middle and end.  We will read Cinderella, Three Billy Goats Gruff and we will write about our favorite fairy tale and why.  We are continuing to work on writing our own fairy tale.

In math we continue to work with numbers and ordering numbers.

We are learning about December holidays and family traditions during this holiday season

Our letters/words of the week are:  "Bb", of, for.

REMINDERS:
Report cards go home this Friday.  I am looking forward to meeting with everyone over the next couple of weeks.

Have a great week!