Congratulations to Stella!
She was chosen by her classmates
as December Citizen of the Month!
A look at our week...
I tried to keep a pretty normal routine all week (for my sanity haha) but we have thrown in several fun, holiday things as well, as you saw on yesterday's blog post! Jack, our classroom elf, was much happier this week with the kiddos behavior and so was I! He even brought us candy canes today as a reward!
Fundations: we continue to quickly review the proper letter formation of the uppercase letters. You can look in your weekly packet to see which ones we went over this week. We also learned about word families, specifically the -at, -ug, -an word families. We also have a new word family center at Daily 5 time.
Shared Reading/Spelling: to help us learn our new spelling words, yes and no, we read the books I Can Help and He Said No. We also learned a fun new poem called, Santa, that is sung to the tune of Bingo. Ask your kiddo to sing it for you!
I will NOT introduce any new spelling words until the first full week after winter break, January 9th. Until then, keep reviewing the current list over break. I have attached it to the email. Find ways to make practicing fun! Just make sure you include ways that has your child writing and reading the words. Often times I find they can write the words, but then can't read them in text. It's odd, but true!
Daily 5/Guided Reading Groups: Ask your child what Daily 5 choices they went to this week. Ask them which Daily 5 choice is their favorite and why. Ask your child what books they learned how to read during their guided reading groups.
Math: we made some awesome paper chains that represent teen numbers. It also helped us see how ALL teen numbers are a group of 10 plus some more.
Writing Workshop: we continue to work on sounding out words to help us spell, putting spaces in between our words when we write and telling more details. I am encouraging all kiddos to move beyond telling just one sentence and trying to add a second sentence to their stories.
Social Studies: this week we learned the difference between Needs and Wants. It is often hard for 5-6 year olds to understand that they don't need toys, video games, etc. but this group did a great job with it! We learned that needs are things you must have to survive and wants are just nice to have. We watched a Berenstain Bears video about a case of the gimmies, sorted some pictures together in a pocketchart of things that were needs and wants and made the cute needs and wants stockings that came home on Thursday. I thought this tied in nicely with Christmas coming up. We had some great discussions on this topic this week!
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