December

Our Christmas Center Day. The kids had a great time! Thanks so much for donating items and volunteering! 

Here is a peek at a few more of the activities that kept us busy in December!

We made words out of the word: Christmas Tree

Group Shot before the Christmas Concert!

We made reindeer out of our footprints and measured them with different objects. We talked about why there was different numbers for each group of objects. 

We made Advent Wreaths:

Peek at the Week

We have had SO much fun with reindeers this past week! We are sad to see them  go... but excited to start a Santa/Christmas unit!

 

 

 

This week in:

 

Reading:

 

-Oral Vocabulary: celebration, sprinted, barn, blacksmith, arch, soldier

- Initial Dd

- Initial Kk

- Sight words: see, look

- Comprehension: Cause and Effect

- Big Book: George Washington Visits

- Verbs that add -s

 

Math:

 

1 Fewer: Children will use counting to identify a number that is 1 fewer than another number.

 

 

2 More: Use counting to identify a number that is 2 more than another number.

 

2 fewer: Use counting to identify a number that is 2 fewer than another number

 

Ordering numbers through 10: order numbers from 0 through ten in sequence

 

Common Core Standards we will cover:

 

K.CC.2

K.CC.6

K.CC.7

K.OA.1

 

Religion:

 

Christmas/Advent

 

Seasonal:

 

Santa/Ho Ho Ho

Christmas party with reading buddies



B&N Bookfait

The Barnes 'n Noble bookfair is on Thursday! It would be wonderful to have everyone there from 4:00-4:30 to sing with Mr. Barrios and the kindergarten.

 

Some books we could use for our classroom:

 

*Advent Storybook: 24 stories to share before Christmas by Antoine Schneider

*Making the Most of Small Groups by Debbie Diller

*Christmas Is... by Gail Gibbons

*Pete the Cat Saves Christmas by Eric Litwin

*Randolph Saves Christmas by Lark Wilson

 

On Dasher, on Dancer, on Prancer, on Vixen

You guessed it! Our theme this week is reindeer. We will also continue with Advent (the reason for the season).

 

A peek at our week:

 

This week in reading:

 

Practice with initial/ending /r/ sound

sight words: me, with, she

Concept Vocab: duckling, pond, puddle, plunged, proud, brave

Readers workshop story: Little Quack
Readers workshop: plot

Practice with nouns, adjectives, verbs

Blending with three and four letter words

Writers workshop: editing

 

Thematic:

Reindeer application

Reindeer stories

 

Math:

 

Comparing numbers to 5

Game: Cover the path

Comparing numbers to 10

Game: greater than or less than?

Game: Cover 9

1 More

Game: Cover three

1 Fewer

 

 

On Monday we made Advent wreaths with our mass buddies.

 

 

Peek at the Week

This week in...

Reading:
We will begin Unit 3
Phonemic Awareness: Bb
Sight words: me, with, she
Readers Workshop story: Little Panda
Comprehension: compare and contrast; review main idea
Writers workshop: summary
Verbs

Common core state standards we will cover:
CCSS Reading 2,3
CCSS Language 3
CCSS Speaking/listening 1,2
CCSS writing 2

Math:
Counting 10: use objects to represent and count the number 10
Vocabulary: ten
Reading and writing 10
Problem solving: Look for a pattern : solve problems by identifying growing patterns and predicting what comes next
Vocab: growing patterns 
Begin Topic 4
Comparing numbers through ten: compare two numbers using sets of objects and one to one correspondence to determine which number is greater And which is less
Vocabulary: greater; less

Standards we will cover: 
K.cc.4c
K.cc.6
K.cc.7

Religion:
Advent wreaths with our mass buddies