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No School

December 22- January 2, School Resumes January 5th (Winter Vacation)

Holiday Classroom Party

Our class party will be Friday, December 19th.  A note came home earlier this week regarding the gift exchange.  We are also asking for a 1.00 donation to go toward our craft.  See the next iBlog post for other food donations.

What We Did This Week

Our Alpha-Friend was Gertie Goose, Letter Gg

We rotated through Daily 5

We continue to write in our journals and discuss story elements.

In Math we are building number and comparing numbers.  We continue to count by 10’s and 1’s.  We continue to practice writing numerals 1-10 and after the holidays we will begin the “tricky teens.”

In Handwriting we worked on letter I.  We have covered all of the capital letters with “straight lines” and will not move onto “curves.”

Mr. Iversile taught our Social Skills lesson this week.  We are working on feelings and empathy – and paying attention to our friends face to see how they are feeling.

In Science we used our sense of touch to guess which letter we could feel (the letters were made from sandpaper).

Have a nice weekend!

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Late Start

Wednesday, December 10^th

Box Top Drive 

You can continue to send in Box Tops until December 17th.

What We Did This Week

Our Alpha Friend was Pippa Pig, Letter P

We rotated through Daily 5

We matched lower case letters to capital letters at “Word Work”

We listed to a Christmas story at the listening center

We wrote in our journals

In Math we introduced building numbers on a ten frame.  We are working on representing quantity to the numeral.  We also introduced counting by 10’s.

In handwriting we worked with the letter T.

Just a reminder that tomorrow, December 5th, is Popcorn Friday!

Bring your quarter!

December Scholastic Book Orders are coming home today.

Orders are due Friday, December 5th in order to have books here before Winter vacation.

There are attached directions on how to order online.

Thanks!

The Young 5’s will have the opportunity to shop at the “Santa Shop” on Thursday, December 4th.

All items are 2.00.

An envelope is being sent home today for you to create a “shopping list” for who your child would like to shop for.

Money and lists can be brought in Thursday morning.

Thank you!

Don’t forget that tomorrow is our November reward party with a short movie and “junkie snack” from home!  All of the students in our class earned this reward!

Thank you!

Please note that the guideline for having outdoor recess, lining up outside in the morning, and having safeties on outside posts has been changed.  If the wind chill is 20 degrees F or above students will wait outside in the morning, will be having outside recess, and corner safeties will be on post.  If the wind chill or air temperature is 19 degrees F or below students will line up inside in the morning, will have indoor recess and no corner safeties will be on post.  There are many students who are being dropped off as early as 7:45 am, which is way too early.  Please be aware that while students are welcome to play outside for a short time before school, there is no school staff supervision of these students.  Also, when it is too cold to line up outside the student lines in the hallway will be supervised  by teachers starting at 8:25 am.  Please do not drop off students early on these “inside” days unless they are going to breakfast.  Breakfast is served in the cafeteria starting at 8:15 am.  The cost is $1.25.  Parents who need to drop students off early can contact Kids’ Club to enroll their children.  This service is available for a fee but then you would know your child is being appropriately supervised.  We want all students to be safe!

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Good Behavior Reward Party for November

Tuesday, December 2nd – We will be watching a short movie and you may bring a “junkie snack” from home

Late Start

Wedensday, December 10th

What We Did This Week

We reviewed all of our Alpha Friends

In math we played dice games to practice counting and reading numbers

In Science we “popped corn” and used our five senses to observe what was happening

We read many stories about Thanksgiving

We had our first Lock Down drill today.  I called it a “listening drill” with the students meaning we had to lock the door, turn off the lights, and sit close together in a corner of the classroom.  I told the students we needed to “listen” for directions from Mrs. DeNeen on the walkie talkie.

Have a good holiday.

Mrs. Ruselink

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No School

November 26^th-November 28^th, Thanksgiving Recess

November Reward Party for Good Behavior

Tuesday, December 2^nd

We are watching a short movie and you may bring your favorite “junkie snack”

Winter Clothes/ Boots

Winter has come early!  Thank you for dressing your student so warm!  Please remember to pack tennis shoes if your child wears snow boots to school.  They will need to change into shoes before coming in the classroom so we can keep the floor and rug area clean and dry.

If the temperature is above 20 degrees (with windshield) we are allowed to be outdoors for recess and morning line up.  If the temperature is below that there will be indoor recess and students are allowed to line up against their locker in the hallway in the morning.

What We Did This Week

Our new AlphaFriend was Callie Cat, letter C

In math we continued work with patterns, writing numerals and using our geometric shape templates to draw shapes.

During Daily 5 we used the Wikki Stix to outline alphabet letters, listened to a story about Bears, wrote in our Work on Writing notebook and selected new texts for Read to Self.

In handwriting this week we focused on letter E, using “big line” and “little lines”

In Science we used our sense of sight to observe color changes using water and food coloring.

We continue to read and write about Thanksgiving.

We had a lot of time to interact during Free Choice (with indoor recess all week) and work on play skills.

Have a good weekend!