Kinder News,
Hello friends…the kids are all doing amazing and making so much progress! We have a busy schedule this week especially with a shorter week. Please remember to send flashlights with fresh batteries for Thursday (extra flashlights would be great).
Important Dates:
Thursday, December 21st Winter Solstice/Day in the DARK
Friday, December 22 Decorate Gingerbread Cookies with our 4th grade buddies/School Wide Celebration (choice time in the dark)
Friday, December 22 EARLY RELEASE DAY 12:00 (Lunch at Home)
Reminder: Take Home Bag Lunch Orders for Friday are Due
Please order your child’s bag lunch. I need to put orders in by Monday! Please email me if you would like your child to bring home a bag lunch. Choice of Turkey and cheese sandwich or yogurt lunch. If I do not receive an order for your child I will not send a bag lunch home.
Day in the Dark
On Thursday, December 21 the kindergarten classes will have a “Day in the Dark” to reinforce learning about day and night, including solstice - the shortest day and longest night of the year! If possible please send in some flashlights (each child will need one for the day).
Flashlights
We will return your items that day. Please label all items sent to school. If you have any questions, just let us know.
ECO:
Our last ECO we pretended to be squirrels, hiding our pine cones in the snow.
Literacy Snapshot:
Introduced Sh, wh, ck, and the two sounds of th (digraphs)
Vowels have two sounds
Letters Z and Qu (chicken letter)
Using letter sounds to blend CVC words (bat, mat, sat, lid, pop, etc)
Heart words - A, I , the, me, we
Labeling pictures
Reading groups
Comparing Stories
HandWriting Lower case letters (c, o, Magic C letters) (v and w)
Some Books We read:
Mercy Watson
The Gingerbread Cowboy
The Gingerbread Girl and the Animal CrackersThe Gingerbread Baby
The Gingerbread Friends
How to Catch a Gingerbread Cookie
Gingerbread Pirates
The Gingerbread Boy
My Fantastic Elastic Brain
Frederick (We wrote sentences and rainbow pictures about Frederick)
Math Snapshot:
Quisner Rods for teen numbers
Counting to 100
Teen Numbers (18 is 10 and 8 more)
Double Ten’s Frames
Number formation
Creating Bridges for the gingerbread cookies
Dreidel Game
Gingerbread Bump
Adding
Math Menu
Science/SS Snapshot:
Gingerbread Versions
Sun is a Star (Starry Night Van Gogh) Made Lanterns for Day in the Dark
Family Traditions (Continued) including reading different versions of the Gingerbread story)
Fourth Grade Buddies (every friday)
Learned about our Brains -upstairs brains and downstairs brains
All School Assembly -How to get yourself unstuck and we can do hard things
Questions to Ask your Kinder:
What is special about the letter Q?
Start counting at 13 and stop at 33. Count backwards from 10, 20, and 29.
What is your favorite gingerbread cookie story so far?
Tell me about the upstairs and downstairs brain.
Gingerbread Bump Math Game with our 4th Grade Buddies and Choice Time:
