I hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving weekend with family and friends. I was certainly grateful to spend some time visiting with some of my closest relatives and friends during our time off from school.
This week we are beginning a fun unit on bears! We will read some nonfiction and fiction books as we learn all about bears in our kindergarten classroom. We will learn true facts from our nonfiction reading and we will learn about the different elements of a story from our fictional stories. We will discuss main characters, settings, and the big ideas in our different stories about bears. Be sure to ask your children all about our learning!
This week we will also add three new words to our Word Wall~ 'in', 'at', & 'my'. We now have twelve words in all on our Word Wall: I, a, the, is, me, go, it, and, no, in, at, & my. Please practice reading these words at home. Knowing these words 'by heart' will help your child to begin the process of reading! We practice our 'heart words' each and every day in our kindergarten classroom.
During math we are learning about growing patterns, numbers lines, comparing numbers (two more, two fewer), and learning about numbers 10 - 20. We will be using different types of materials to help us with our math learning each day during the month of December.
Mystery Readers are a huge hit in our classroom. Please send me an email or a note if you haven't signed up to read to the class and are still interested in participating in this activity. The children absolutely LOVE it!
Gingerbread Houses~ Please mark your calendars! We will be decorating gingerbread houses in our classroom on Thursday, December 19th at 2pm in our classroom. Please join us for this very messy and fun event. More information will come home, but I wanted to make you aware of the date.
Please make sure your children have winter clothing for outdoor recess each day! The children need warm coats, hats, and gloves every day. On snowy days the children play outside. Please send in snow pants (they will go home each day) and wear boots. Sneakers should be packed in your child's backpack. Sneakers are worn during the school day and boots are worn for outside play!
Thank you so much for your support in your child's learning and play. I am looking forward to a terrific December!
Sincerely,
Eileen Browne :)
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