A Peek At Our Week!

     I hope everyone had a great weekend! It was another busy week in Kindergarten. Please enjoy the pictures and updates below! 😊

Important Dates:

December 12th:

Early Release

11:55pm Dismissal

December 23rd:

Early Release

11:55pm Dismissal

December 24th-January 4th:

Winter Break ❆

No School

January 5th:

School Reopens

Announcements:

Gifts for Kids 🎁

This is a friendly reminder that any donations to the Gift for Kids program are due tomorrow, Monday, December 8th. Thank you SO much for your generosity, and for supporting a local child in need. It is greatly appreciated!

Curriculum Update:

Into Reading

Last week we completed Module 3 in our Into Reading curriculum, and worked hard to answer the question: "What makes a community?". The books A Piece of Home by Jeri Watts and Bo and Peter by Besty Franco helped us deepen our understanding of what a community is, and why communities are important. In phonics we learned about the letters l and j and practiced reading the sight/heart word all.

Did you know I have a hidden talent? I can do magic! Ask your child how I used my magic bag to practice last week's sight/heart word! 

Math

It was a busy time in math as the children practiced counting numbers as 5 and "some more". We also took a deeper look at number lines and created a giant one on our classroom rug! The class had a great time working together to sequence numbers and label the parts of a number line.

The class also learned to play a game called Fives Up which helped them practice the different ways to make the number 5.

Writing

This week in Writer's Workshop the children will be introduced to opinion writing! They will learn that an opinion is how you think or feel about a given topic, and that our opinions can't be wrong. We will use our sight word of the week "like" to write about our favorite part of our classroom or school, and even began to provide reasons for our opinions. It sure will be a busy week for writing!

A Peek Inside Specials 👀

It was an exciting week as the students enjoyed using BeeBots in media/stem and Boomwackers in music while also learning about the Nutcracker ballet! 

Click here to listen to us play!

The students also got to create with clay in art! 🎨

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! 🍎📖🚌