The holiday season is here once again. I hope everyone had a relaxing and restful Thanksgiving Break, and that you're ready for an awesome end to our 2nd nine weeks.
We are winding up the year with a lot of writing, learning to read, and exploring new math concepts. It is exciting to see the children so enthusiastic about learning new things each day and about caring for one another.
Dates to Remember in December:
8th: Library
14th: High Touch-High Tech Field Trip money due for two in-house science presentations on Fabulous Forces and on Rocks and Soils
15th: Library
16th: Book Buddies
19th: (Monday) Holidays Around the World Kindergarten Class Rotations in the morning to learn about different holiday celebrations
Kindergarten classroom Winter Celebration party at 1:20pm. All parents are invited to attend if you would like to come join in the fun! Please let our room mom, Jen-i DeBetta, know if you are willing to help with this party.
20th: Library
21st: "Fabulous Forces" in-house science field trip with a scientist teaching about forces, energy, and gravity (and the children doing experiments)
22nd: School Holiday Sing-a-Long for students
Monthly reading log due
Last Day of School
December 23rd through January 9th: Winter Break - enjoy your precious children! We will miss them.
January 10th: School begins for students
13th: Report cards go home for the second nine weeks
Our Units Will Be:
Letters Kk, Ll, Pp, Rr
Formation of letters and letter sounds, ending sounds of words
Parts of a book
Learning sight words and word patterns
Spacing and formation of letters and words
Writing complete sentences using Guess-and-Go Spelling, starting with capital letters, using correct spacing, and ending with periods.
Math and Writing Journals, daily math learning centers
When events occur during the day (morning, noon, and evening)
Motion and Gravity
American Symbols - Statue of Liberty, Bald Eagle
Pledge of Allegiance
Listening and following directions, being kind and respectful to others, and using self-control to make good choices
Missing parts of patterns, ordinal numbers ( first through tenth)
Coins and their values, making fair trades of pennies, nickels and dimes
Numbers and sets to 20
Counting by 2's, 5's and 10's
Thank you so much for being so generous and for sending in all of the items for the Food Tasting Party and class celebrations. The children had a terrific time. We really appreciate your support and do love our fabulous parent volunteers for literacy centers, awesome guest readers, and generous snack helpers. Your children are so proud when you come in to be with our class.
Kudos to you all for working so hard with your children on sight words every day and for reading with them and supporting our curriculum. The children are making amazing progress learning their sight words, which is exciting because they are learning to read new words. Thank you for sending back homework and for checking the red folders daily.
Please do not send your children to school when they are sick or until it has been 24 hours after vomiting or having a fever. Everyone appreciates this, as germs can spread so quickly. Also, please dress your child appropriately in labeled clothing for cold weather because we do try to go outside most days.
Our TREASURE BOX is is being depleted rapidly, as the children are enjoying earning Warm Fuzzies, which is wonderful. Donations will be greatly appreciated. We also could use a big bag of M&M's for treats when the children make good choices in the classroom.
Some great websites for practice:
http://www.starfall.com
http://www.pbskids.org
http://www.sitesforteachers.com This site links over to many others.
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten.htm
http://www.mrsalphabet.com/links.htm
http://www.mrsperkins.com/dolch.htm
http://www.ixl.com/signin/mountainview (for math)
http://www.myskillstutor.com
http://www.funbrain.com/math
http://www.cvl.cobbk12.org (user name is "cobb" and password is "bird")
Happy Holidays to everyone! WE HAVE THE BEST CLASS EVER AND WE'RE SO PROUD!!!!
