Friday Newsletter, 12-8-17

News and Information

Late Start

Wednesday, December 20th

Calendar

Classroom Holiday Party, Friday morning, December 22nd from 9:00-11:00 a.m.  A sign-up for food and materials will come out soon.

We’ll enjoy some holiday crafts and games and then have a special snack.

What We Did This Week

We introduced our Alpha Friends, Jumping Jill (J) and Kelee Kangaroo (K)

We colored the letters , colored letter pictures, and worked with the letters in our poem books.

We introduced the sight word: to

We wrote in our journals.  We are learning to draw our stories with details and basic shapes.

We continue to read stories by the author Mercer Meyer (Little Critter Books)

We worked in our Handwriting book using our “three finger squeeze” and practicing capital H (another “straight line” letter)

We are counting to 100 using songs and our math grid

We discussed the “Tricky Teen” family (numbers 11-19) put together teen number puzzles

We are also building numbers on the ten frame and having “number talks”

We visited our special classes, Gym, Art, Music and Media

We enjoyed playing on the playground

We enjoyed Free Choice Time

We rotated through our Daily 5 Literacy Centers

Students who were on green 4 days this week attended the Chirstmas BINGO party

Please work with your student at home on learning to dress themselves in winter clothes.  If the snow starts to accumulate please wear snow boots to school and pack shoes to wear indoors in their backpack.

If the temperature (with windchill) is 20 or below there will be indoor line up and indoor receess.

Have a great weekend!

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