-Handwriting Letter of the Week: B
-Phonics Letter of the Week: Y
-Math: Subtraction

-We graphed our birthday months.
We used our class birthday book as a visual to help us graph.
We discussed which months had more and/or less, and which months had zero birthdays.
The children really enjoyed this!

HERE IS A LINK TO OUR CLASS BIRTHDAY BOOK:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jaakpL_uqox7_vf9ej6JE8QteOi30ODIwugGV8uaG0c/edit?usp=sharing

the kids absolutely love to read it! 🙂 

Then we celebrated MohammedAli’s birthday with pizza and cupcakes!

-We read the story The Mitten by Jan Brett. We discussed how animals went in and out of the mitten.
The students made predictions on whether or not they think the animals would fit in the mitten.
After we read the story, we measured how many mittens tall the students are! They really enjoyed being measured by mittens.
Our results were very interesting… we have some very tall kindergarten and first graders in our classroom! 🙂

We graphed our results and discussed who is taller, shorter, and the same height.

In the story, the main character wants a “snow white” mitten. His grandmother tells him that she doesn’t think that a snow white mitten is a good idea because it will blend in with the snow and he will lose it. The boy insisted that his mitten be snow white and so that is what he got!
The students got to decorate their very own mitten JUST the way that THEY wanted to!

-We learned a lot about winter this week and the things that we can see and do in winter.
We painted mittens and gloves for an adorable project. The children really enjoyed painting!
We haven’t finished it yet, but I can’t wait to share pictures!
Once the project is completed they will go up in the hallway but I will share pictures on the blog.

We did a winter writing project.
The students picked their favorite winter activity.

I think we will have to have some hot chocolate in our classroom soon! 😉

oTHER PICTURES FROM THIS WEEK:

TO…

THE HUSSEIN FAMILY

THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY

THE ALJEBURI FAMILY

your donations are very appreciated! 🙂

FRIDAY WILL BE A HALF DAY OF SCHOOL.

FAMILIES:

OUR CLASSROOM IS IN NEED OF BABY WIPES.

IF YOUR CHILD IS IN DIAPERS,
A DONATION OF BABY WIPES WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!

THANK YOU! 🙂

-Handwriting Letter of the Week: P
-Phonics Letter of the Week: X
-Math: Counting, Addition, and Subtraction
-We finished our January writing projects
(They will be sent home sometime next month.
They are hanging in our hallway right now!)

-We did a snowman project during group therapy with Ms. Cartier, Mrs. Britt, and Mrs. Gallery
-We learned about the initial letter of our name and other words that begin with that letter. We got to choose (there was a choice of 3) what other word we liked that begin with the initial letter of our name.

-We made fake snow!!!
We put hair conditioner and baking soda in a bowl and all of the students took turn stirring it.

It was a huge hit with our students! They had so much fun playing with it!

-On Friday we learned about the Auto Show.

Here are some more pictures from last week:

to…

The Othman Family

THE SALEH FAMILY

THE KHALAF FAMILY

THE MOHAMED FAMILY

THE ALJEBURI FAMILY

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR DONATIONS!

I hope that everyone had a fun and relaxing 2 weeks off of school!
My break was enjoyable but I really missed the kiddos.
I was so excited to see them on Monday!

(Abrar and Jana were so excited to see each other when they returned to school!)

We have had a busy week of fun and learning!

We learned about the New Year.
We even celebrated by having our very own New Years Eve party!
We had so much fun!

We learned about our new month, January.
We learned new words that are associated with the month.
We each picked a January word for our January class book and January writing activity.
For our writing activity, we put together a sentence with the word we picked and color a picture to match.
We display it in the hallway so our peers can see our great work!

We learned about birthdays!
We read books about the different ways people celebrate their birthday and the different kinds of birthday cakes.
We read a class birthday book that Ms. Bowdell created.
We practiced remembering our birthdays and drew pictures of ourselves on our birthday.

And then…
we celebrated Abrar’s 8th birthday! 🙂

Tomorrow we will learn about Martin Luther King Jr. and how we can be kind to others.

HERE ARE SOME MORE PICTURES FROM OUR WEEK…

reminders:

*january 15- no school
*January 17- late start