Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

See on you on Jan. 3rd!

** I sent home a Holiday Homework packet. Please return after break! Thank you for working with your child!

What to tell your kids...

Jon White sent this to all of the teachers at BPS. I thought that I would share this with you.

What to tell your kids...

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/12/14/connecticut-school-shooting-what-to-tell-your-kids/

Dec. 17th

It’s hard to believe that this is the last week before our Winter break.  This week, we are working on the letter Y. We work on naming the letter, the sound it makes, and handwriting. I won’t be adding any new sight words this week, however we will be reviewing all of our previously learned sight words.  I have some fun math activities planned this week such as snowball measurement and making patterned bracelets.  I will try to keep Monday- Wednesday as normal as possible. Thursday and Friday will be full of Holiday fun! Don’t forget that Our Holiday Party is Thursday at 2:00. Our book swap is Friday along with PJ/ Movie day. We plan on watching the Polar Express! I absolutely love my job. Teaching your child is my pleasure. I have grown to love each and every single one of my students. I thank you for being such involved parents! Have a Happy Holiday and a Merry Christmas!

Our room is a bit more festive this time of year:)



Learning about Turtles...



Domino addition!

Making butter:)

Making butter...yum!

A job well done...

We have so much fun!

December Update!

December Update!

The Kindergarteners have been working very hard! We have been reviewing many math concepts. We have begun to solve simple addition and story problems.  I will be introducing simple subtraction soon! In Science, we have been learning about Earth. The kids have had a chance to interact with real fossils and they LOVED it! We have talked about what the Earth is made up of and how  we can  care for our Earth. We continue to work on letters, letter sounds, letter formation, sight words, rhyming and blending sounds every day. They kids love reading simple texts. I’ll be sending some of our old mini books home very soon. 

I hope your child has told you about our “Elf on the Shelf.” It really brings out the kids imagination! The children names our elf Lollie Pop.Every morning the elf is found doing another silly thing in our class. The elf has been found fishing, reading and writing us messages. The children have been writing about the elf. Our writing is coming a long way! Keep reading and writing at home!

Report cards go home this Monday, December 10th.

Please check out the pictures below to learn more about what we have been up to!

Sight Word Songs!

Reviewing Color words with our Color Words song by Dr. Jean

Forming numbers and letters!

Writing the room!

Symmetry painting!

I can count!

Learning that the Earth has more water and less land! ...
Throw the "Earth." Did your thumb land on land or water? 

Lower case/ capitol match

Our Elf- Lollie Pop

NEW play center! The Kindergarten Store

Investigating soil, sand, rocks and fossils.

Learning to count by 10's!

Constructing  sentences!

Sight Words!

Everyday, at snack time, we sing sight word songs! These songs have really helped us learn our sight words better! You can watch them at home for extra practice! Here is an example...

To find more like this video, go to youtube.com. Type in "have fun teaching sight words"
Also,a list of words that we have covered in class will be going home today!

Reminder

Don't Forget...

 Your Math homework book is due this week!

 I'll be sending home a new one soon.

Thank you!

Nov.10 update!

It’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving is right around the corner! We have accomplished so much!  The letters that we have studied are F,M,B,S,D,A,J,P,H. However, we do many songs and activities that include all of the letters. The sight words that we have covered are as follows: A, I, see, the, this, is, me, our, here, big, can, no, to, play, we, go, little, and up as well as all of the color words.

This week we are covering letter C and sight words you and goes. The following week is only two days and so it will be a review week.

The kids are now rhyming and reading simple text with the help of pictures. This week, I will focus on learning what a question is and how to ask a question. We will keep work on all of the strategies that make a good reader! We are finishing up our unit on the 5 senses and moving on to learning about our Earth! I will be assessing the children all week in order to have the most up to date data for our conferences.

Take a look at some of the other activities that we have been doing!

We practice forming shapes and numbers with play dough.

Science: Learning about the sense of touch and temperature.

Singing our color song!

Stretching out words!

Learning about estimation.

Beginning addition! Roll, count and color!

We read Duck for President. Do you like our stickers? They say I voted!



New play center- puppets!



New writing center! They love the easel!



Coming soon: Children read a sight word then practice spelling it by pretending to type it on their personal keyboard!

Below are a few photos from Halloween Day

 and our Fall Harvest Party.



Fall Harvest Party

Fall Harvest Party

Our Fall Harvest Party is fast approaching.

We would love for you to join us on

 Wednesday, October 31st

for our party.

You can help out at a center, help pass out food or just spend time with your child.

Our Party will begin at 1:15. It will end at 2:30.

The children will not be dressing up or passing out treats. We will have lots of delicious food and plenty of fun games including Pumpkin Bowling, Bingo, a monster craft, Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin, Pass the Pumpkin and decorate a cookie!

Hope to see you there!

THANK YOU

A huge THANK YOU to those who helped with the field trip today!