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December 1-5
Dear Parents,
Below is what we have been working on the past two weeks:
Morning Meeting- We have a morning message to outline each day's activities. We had a greeting each day. One of our favorites was the gingerbrad man greeting when we had to run run run as fast as we could in place and say good morning: We had a share each week- What is your favorite kind of pie? and Would you rather have a gingerbread cookie or a frosted sugar cookie? We also had some various movement breaks. One was the pumpkin pie dance and this week's favorite was the gingerbread cookie dance by DannyGo
Writing: We wrote in our journals about our weekends. We have written responses to two of the stories we've read. We wrote about our favorite part of the story Whistle For Willie. We had a label-it page about the gingerbread man. This is when everyone stretches out the word they want to label the picture with and listens for all the sounds they hear.
Independent Work-The children worked in 3 centers this week: read to self, writing and word work. We worked on ending sounds, gingerbread cookie sight words or playdoh sight words, read to self, phonics games, and writing responses to our stories. During this time, each reading group worked at the teachers table on reading and phonics skills.
Math- This week we began our addition unit. We learned that addition is when you join two groups together. We did this with word problems, pictures, counters and cubes. We also played an addition game with a gingerbread man. Every time we rolled the die, we put that number of buttons on the gingerbread man. Then they rolled it again and put more on. Finally we added them altogether. We also played gingerbread roll and cover. We worked in math ceners one day so that we could work with small groups to make sure everyone was grasping the concept of addition.
Science/Social Studies
This week we started our holiday unit. We began by discussing wants and needs. We learnd that a need is something we must have to live. A want is something that would be nice to have but we could survive without it. WE watch a brainpop jr. video about wants and needs. The next day I gathered some objects in a basket. The children came up and picked an item out and decided if it was a want or a need. Finally, we made a holiday sorting project. We traced and cut two stockings. One said wants and the other said needs. The children sorted pictures by putting them in the correct stockings.
We also read various gingerbread stories (The original Gingerbread Mand, The Gingerbread Baby, The Stinky Cheese Man) We stared a gingerbread project that we will finish next week.
We finished the week with a trip to the holiday gift boutique!
It was a great week in Kindergarten!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Fishelman & Mrs. Keirstead
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