Week 17- December 2-6

I hope everyone is enjoying their long Thanksgiving weekend! 

Happy Thanksgiving from our little family!

This week we will be introducing a new friend in our classroom; a Kindness Elf. I know many of you use this messenger in your own home as well. Our elf will not only bring excitement to our classroom, he will also bring acts of kindness he each day. He is a lot of fun and is a great way to bring out positive and loving behavior in our little scholars! I am excited for the kids to meet him and give him a name!

Here's a look at next week:

Spalding: Can you believe we have almost learned 50 phonograms? Kindergarten is flying! This week, we will learn two new phonograms: or and ck (cue: two letter). When reviewing phonograms daily, you only need to review about 20 at a time.  We pick 20 phonograms to review each day, and we switch the phonograms around, so that we are practicing all of our two letter phonograms each week.  You can do the same at home. 

Our spelling words this week will be: on,  a, it, is, she

Both a and she use rule 4.  The vowel may say its name at the end of a syllable.

Sight Words: This week we will introduce list 6 these words are: so, these, them, then, many, out, about, other, up, will. 

Literature: We begin our unit on The Velveteen Rabbit this week.  Please hold off on reading this story until after we have completed the book.  We love to see how the students explore and discover the story for the first time. Students will not be required to bring the book in.  We have learned in the past that it becomes more of a distraction.  This year, we want to students to just enjoy listening to the story, and then have it in their library at home for the future. Our Poem will be Pease Porridge Hot.

Math:

Students will be comparing sets to determine which set has more.  We will use every day items such as cups and straws, cards, and cubes.  We will also be looking at numbers and writing numbers that are one more than the one shown.  For example, if they are shown 8, they will write 9 as one more than 8.

Science: It’s almost the winter season! We will learn about snowflakes, how they form and that each is unique. We will discuss what a habitat is and that many animals in a cold habitat have blubber to keep warm. At the end of the week we will begin learning about the Arctic and the continent of Antarctica. 

The Phoenix Symphony came to Arete!

Week 16- November 25-26 (No School Wednesday-Friday)

 Happy Friday Families! We had an exciting week in KB with Mrs. Moore's birthday, the concert, and Prep students visiting to help with sight words! 

Please remember to turn in your decorated turkey feather! I'm exciting to announce I will be helping to coach Running Club again this year! Look for the flyer coming home in your child's folder for more information!

Next week is a short week. Half day students are invited to stay for the whole day Monday while we celebrate the First Thanksgiving. Please email me if you want you child to be ready for pick up at noon. If you child stays, pick up is at 2:45pm.

Happy Birthday Savanna!

Spalding:  This week we will review all phonograms we have learned so far and take a look back at our spelling words from last week.  

Sight Words: We will review all sight words we have learned so far. We have taught up to list 5 so far. 

Literature: This week will learn two poems, Georige Pordgie and Little Jack Horner. We will also read "Turkey Trouble," and students will discuss the problem and solution of the story.

Math:We will discuss equal sets (for example: cups and straws).  Students will be asked to match things that go together.  There will be one page of homework on the back of the color by sight word page.

History: We will wrap up our unit on exploring and moving to America by learning more about the First Thanksgiving. Students will participate in their classroom Thanksgiving celebration!