I hope everyone is having a great weekend and staying warm. It's definitely feeling more like December out there! Please enjoy a few updates from our week below.
Important Dates:
December 26th-January 2nd
Holiday Break
No School
Announcements:
Gifts for Kids
All donations for the Gift for Kids program are due this Monday, December 12th. Thank you so much for your incredibly generous donations. They are sure to make our sponsored child's holiday merry and bright!
Walpole High Film Festival
Last week I received a very exciting email from Mr. James Connolly, an advisor for the Walpole High School Film Festival. This year a film is being made about a high school student who travels back to Kindergarten to relearn how to follow the rules, and they are looking for a Kindergarten class (and teacher) to help them bring their project alive! I will be sending home a permission tomorrow for you to sign if you are comfortable with your child participating in this very special project. I will be sure to share more details as they become available. From what I understanding filming would not begin until January or February. Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions you may have and I will do my best to answer them!
Quiet Time Towels
Quiet Time towels were sent home on Friday for washing. Please return your child's clean towel to school tomorrow (Monday). Thank you!
Curriculum Update:
Fundations
Last week in Fundations the children learned about the letters x. and y. They also practiced reading the sight word "like". We have now learned all of the color words, and last week took the time to make a class book about our favorite colors (pictures to follow!).
After reading the book, What Does the X-Ray Say? the class enjoyed making their own x-ray art projects!
Math
In math the class was introduced to the concept of adding one, taking away one, which will prepare them for addition and subtraction in the upcoming weeks. We learned many new partner games to help practice this skill and look forward to continuing to play them during math work stations in the week ahead!
The students above enjoy playing a new game called Under the Bowl (or in our case, cup 😂). To play, the first student selects a number of cubes for their partner to count, then places them under the cup. The first student then either adds one more cube or takes one away, and their partner must guess the new number of cubes that is now under the cup. Although very simple in nature, the class really enjoyed the surprise element of the game, and it provided great practice with the concept of one more and one less.
Reader's Workshop
Last week in Reader's Workshop we continued to enjoy old story book favorites and took a closer look at the popular titles Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and The Very Busy Spider. The children are getting more comfortable using their excited reading voices to bring their stories to life, and are even taking a closer look at the text to start to identify words they know how to read.
Writer's Workshop
In Writer's Workshop we continue to work on our All About books. Students who have finished their All About Boyden books have now moved onto writing about other topics they are familiar with including animals, foods, and places. We have also been practicing our sentence writing in class, and the students have been doing a fantastic job including words on their pages as they create All About books with repeating patterns!
The writers above are hard at work!
Thanks so much for taking a peek at our week! Please check back soon to watch us learn, grow, and play in the wonderful world that is K!
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