Upcoming Events

12/18 – 12/20 Candy Gram Sales

12/20 Late Start

12/20 Polar Express and Pajama Day (note came home on 12-15-17)

12/21 Winter Party

12/22 PBIS Celebration – Movie Theater (at Haigh)

12/25 – 1/5 Winter Break – No School!!!!

Agenda for the week

The winter weather has arrived.  Please label all of your child’s winter clothing.  If your child wears boots to school, please send in a pair of dry shoes to wear in the classroom. Please help your child to learn to zip, unzip, put on hats, mittens, coats, boots and snow pants by themselves. Parents will not be allowed in the building to help their child.   Remember, we are trying to teach independence.

Reading/writing  We worked on the letter Uu.   We began introducing sight words.  This week we learned the sight word am.  We are using I am as a sentence starter for writer’s workshop. Please continue helping your child write their first and last name at home.     We are learning to stretch our words and write the sounds we here and we are learning to put a period at the end of our sentence. Keep practicing your letters and sounds.DON’T FORGET TO DO READING EGGS AT HOME 3 DAYS A WEEK.  We have been reading many versions of the Gingerbread Man.  They did an excellent job disguising their Gingerbread Man.

Math  We are working on sorting and measurement.   We are measuring things in our classroom.  We will continue working on numbers from 0-20. Please  have your child work on Math Seeds 3 days a week.  We are working on counting to 20. We are learning to show the value of a number in different ways.  We are using our fingers, ten frames and tally marks to represent a number. We are playing math games in math workshop to help us learn numbers and their values.

Social  Studies  We are learning the difference between goods and services.  We turned the kitchen into a restaurant to help understand the concept of a service.

Science   We are learning about the weather and graphing it for the whole month of December.

Please make sure to empty the green folders each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate homework or important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before. Remember to initial the communication log and feel free to add any notes to me!

Snack   Please remember to send only healthy snacks like fruit, vegetables, and cheese and crackers.