December 5-9

Important Dates & Info/Reminders:

• Winter Break: December 22nd - January 9th

• We have Music with Mr. G for specials next week.

• Scholastic orders are due December 22. You can shop online here, just enter the class code Q2M6Q.

• Saturday, December 10th: Treats with Santa! Our second annual Santa event is happening again this year! Save the date for Saturday, December 10th from 1-3 at the Pinery Fire Station Park. Click here to register!

• Winter Celebration December 21: We will have a winter celebration in the afternoon on the last day before break. We will watch a holiday movie and have hot cocoa and popcorn. This event will just be me in the classroom with the kids, no parent volunteers needed.

• Mug Swap: For our holiday party, we will have a mug swap! Please see the flyer below for more information.

What we learned this week:

• Phonics: We reviewed all the letter names and sounds of the alphabet. We continued practicing writing uppercase and lowercase letters.

• Phonological Awareness: We practiced coming up with rhyming words, finding words with the same beginning sound, blending phonemes, and isolating the middle sounds in CVC words.

• Reading: We read “The Little Box” and discussed what the author and illustrator do and determined who the narrator was in the story. We continued reading Gingerbread books and compared and contrasted the events in the stories.

• Writing: We wrote a dictated sentence “Can I pet the big dog?” to see if we used an uppercase letter to start the sentence, finger spaces, used familiar sounds to spell CVC words, and attempted to write high frequency words correctly.

• iReady- The kids worked so hard on their i-Ready diagnostics for both reading and math. They used their whiteboards to show their work!

• High Frequency Words: This week we reviewed the words we have learned so far. Words we have learned so far: I, a, am, the, like, eat, in, it, did, into, and, we, see, go, no, so, has, as, is, his, does, box, on, was, man, am, at, that, hand, ran, friend, they, he, little, play. Continue to practice reading and writing these words at home.

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We have been using gingerbread play dough in class. The kids asked me to share the recipe with you!