Week of
January 4-8, 2010
Happy New Year!
Show & Tell: Letter
Oo
Sight Word:
is
Welcome back and
Happy New Year
to all of you! I trust you had a
wonderful, snowy vacation and are anxious to have the kids back in
school! We have lots of fun things stored
up for
January, including winter stories and activities, units on penguins and
animals, learning how to tell time!, discussing the importance of
Martin Luther
King, Jr. and preparing for our Open House!
A
reminder to send in boots, snow pants, mittens and hats daily (and don’t forget to pack the shoes!) as
we honestly try to play outside if the weather permits.
Here’s
what’s happening in
Kindergarten this week:
Language Arts:
Story of the week: The
Mitten, by Jan Brett; we will sequence the animals, dramatize the
story,
design and describe our own mittens, sing songs about mittens, and more! We will also learn about vowels, list
describing words, play with the letter O, and review the alphabet and
sight
words learned from the beginning of the year!
Math: Times of the
day; days of
the week; months of the year; longer/shorter time; and ordering events.
Religion: Creation
Science: How things move: experiment through
pushing and pulling; varying surfaces and movement
Gerbil Sitting: Thank you Zachary for watching our gerbils
over vacation! Hope they behaved for
you!
I
will be looking for more sitters over February and April vacations if
you
missed out this time! J
Show
& Tell: You will notice
on the homework chart, that our show & tell for the week of January
18th
is a toy animal. It can be plastic,
stuffed or anything they can find. They
must be prepared to describe its habitat.
Ask: if real, would it live on a
farm, at a zoo, in a home as a pet or out in the wild?
Show
& tell for the last week in January (January 25th) is
Letter
Hh. I forgot to include it on the
homework charts! Sorry!!
Gingerbread Journals: will be circulating throughout your homes in
the next week or so. Please try to read
through it with your child on the day it arrives home if possible, and
return
the next day so the next student on the list can have a turn. Should that night not be convenient, just
tell us and we’ll give you another turn after we’ve rotated
through the
list. J
Mrs. Connors