Whittier Kindergarten

Whittier Kindergarten

Monday, December 15, 2014

The Week Ahead....

Hello Families!
 
Sorry this is reaching you on Monday morning!  I had a busy holiday weekend.  This will be a learning packed week ….
 
In Language Arts we will: 
-focus on the following sight words: can, all & will
-continue answering before, during and after questions about a variety of fairy tales
-read the following fairy tales: Three Billy Goats Gruff, Goldilocks and the Three Bears,  and Three Little Pigs
-identify what happens in the beginning, middle and end of a story
- Recite poems and fingerplays from a wide variety of genres with expression
(Snow and The Chubby Little Snowman)
 
 
In Social Studies we will: 
-begin learning about different celebrations/holidays around the world.
-focus on Hannukah, Kwanzaa and Christmas this week.
 
In Writing we will:  
- continue checking our work to ensure it has: details, spacing, punctuation, appropriate capitalization, labels, speech bubbles, etc.
-we are spending the first 15 min of our writing block on hand writing. We will call this our daily warm-up. The warm-ups will focus on: making slanted lines, and practicing how to write the alphabet using proper techniques.
 
In Math we will: 
- Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
-answer “How many” questions
-learn about a new math counting tool: Rekenrek
-explore place value as we learn about tens and ones through looking at numbers (11-19)
-answer story problem questions
 
 In other news... 
 
*The students worked hard on our door. Check out our class blog for pictures of our door and activities from last week J
 
* Next week we only have school on Monday and Tuesday*  
 
Dates to Remember: 
12/15: The last book exchange before Winter Break
12/15: Visit the center room 
12/16: Lock Down Drill....we will practice this on Tuesday
12/17: Visit the center room
12/22: Library lesson with Ms. Datolli (no exchange
12/23: Whittier give back
12/24-1/4: Winter Break
 
 I hope you all have a great week!  As always, please feel free to email me if you have any questions or concerns.  

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