Letter experts!

 A look at our learning...

Fundations: we have learned all 26 lowercase letters of the alphabet!  Yay!  This means your child should know the name, sound and correct formation of all 26 lowercase letters.  Next week, they will take a Fundations assessment so you can see what letters/sounds/formations they need to work on.  I will send these home in next week's Friday Folder.  

Our final two letters are z and qu.  We learned that "qu" is a "scaredy cat" and can never be alone.  When spelling words, q and u must always be together.  

Please use the following verbal prompts when forming these letters:

z: across, slant down, across

qu: over, around dow....n, curve back (q) down, curve up, down (u)

Shared Reading/Spelling: this week we read the books Go In and Too Little, Too Big to help us practice our new spelling words.  They are discovering they can read more and more books as they are learning more and more new word wall words every week.  When they are finding words in books they know, this is called “monitoring on the known,” which is a HUGE skill to learn! So proud of them!

Next week's new spelling words:

an

can

Writing Workshop: now that we know all 26 letter sounds, students should be applying this knowledge more and more when spelling words and writing stories.  At the beginning of the school year simply drawing pictures was ok, then adding a random string of letters showed they had an awareness of print even if you couldn't read it.  Now, they should be writing words that are legible and using their letter sounds for at least beginning and ending sounds in words.

I was at a birthday party at my house with my mom and dad.

I went to the Mizzou basketball game!

Math: we have finished unit 3 and will begin unit 4 next week.  This week we focused on teen numbers, learned a new game called "Roll & Record" that helps us with identifying numbers and forming them correctly, positional words and learned how to access games in the CPS Portal under the ConnectEd app.  You can access this at home by visiting the CPS website, having your child log-in with their username and password (sent home several weeks ago on a keypad for them to practice) and going to the ConnectED app. They loved it!   

Social Studies/Family Traditions: in your child's Friday Folder is a form for you to fill out about a special family tradition.  A bag is attached for you to send in something that goes along with your family tradition.  This can be a tradition of any kind: Christmas, winter, yearly summer vacation, another holiday your family celebrates, a yearly family baking day, a special family recipe, anything! Please have your child practice what they will be sharing about at home so they are prepared when we share throughout next week. 

Not only does this help us learn more about each other, but ties in nicely to our cultures and traditions Social Studies Unit.

Counselor: this week they focused on thinking of things that make them happy when they are having a tough day, a sad moment, worries, etc.  They also reviewed their breathing techniques learned earlier in the year.  

Craft: check out the beautiful trees we made this week!

Lunch with the Principal: yay Wyatt! He was chosen to have "Lunch with the Principal" for the month of December!  He enjoyed games and lunch with Mr. Foulk and a few other Kindergarten friends. 

A big thank you to everyone who signed up to help with the holiday party!  The sign-up is full and we are ready for some fun on Wednesday, December 20th! Special thanks to one of our room parents, Kayla Hagedorn, for organizing.  

Another special thanks to Krissy Mielke for another cute door decoration!

Fun with friends and elf shenanigans!