| This Week in Kindergarten: December 5- December 9
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Upcoming Dates to Remember:
Dec. 9 - Movie Night with
the home and school, 6-8 ($5.00 to attend)
Dec 15 - Christmas Concert!
(2 shows; 9:00 and 11:00)
Dec 19 - Christmas Concert
“rain” date
Dec 20- Sock hop ($2 to attend)
Dec 22 - Christmas Lunch!
- Chef Roberta will be offering turkey dinner as
the hot lunch option ($5.00). Parents are welcome to join.
K-2 students will have their lunch at 12:00 and 3-5 students at
12:30.
- If you plan to bring your child home after lunch,
please sign out using the sheet posted on my door to help me keep track
:)
Dec 23 – Last day before
Christmas Holidays (Noon dismissal)
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This Week:
Food Drive:
- We are continuing to collect food for the
Fredericton Community Kitchen. Our target is to collect 50 pounds of
food from the list found on the main website. If possible, please donate
to this great cause!
- We will be delivering to the Community Kitchen
at the end of the week!
- Thank you to those of you who have donated!
Take Home Books: New take home
books will come home on Monday. Please return them by Friday.
Remember to read them each night!
Home Learning:
- Home learning this week is to practice the
lyrics for our Christmas concert. Lyrics were sent home today in our
Home Learning duotangs.
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Literacy
Jolly Phonics: We have learned
and will review S, A, T, I., P, N, C, K, E, H, R, M, D, G, O, U, , L, F , B,
J, Z, V, and W. We will learn Y and X this week.
ABC Boom: We say the following sounds as we make the strokes.
- Plop: Most letters "start in the sky and
drop down to the ground”. We use tall plops to form upper case letters
and lower case letters like Tt, Ll, and Hh. We use short plops to make
lower case letters like m, n, and r.
- Vroom: This is the horizontal stroke that goes
from left to right. We use it to start lower case e and we also use it in
upper case letters such as T, E, F, A, Z, and H.
- Boing: This is a curved stroke that reminds us
of a hop. We use it to create the curve in letters such as h, m, and n.
- Blowing Sound: This stroke makes a circle.
We imagine blowing a pinwheel as it goes around in a circle.
We use it to make Oo and Q
- Splash: We picture a fish or a dolphin
splashing in the water to make a U shape. We find this stroke in
U, u, q
- Prrrshhh: We think about a rocket taking off.
We start from the bottom and go straight up. We find it in
a, d, g, q, N
- Shlang: We think about the helmet of an
astronaut closing. We find it in P, p, b, B, D, R
- Beep, Beep: We think about a truck backing up.
This is the opposite of vroom. We find it in G, and we can
also use it instead of vroom for the tops of F and E.
- YOOP: We think of a worm going into the ground.
We find YOOP in J, j, g
Sight Words:
- me, I, it, like, the, is, in, can, was, and
- Practice reading and writing these at home
- Challenge your child to find sight words they
know in books
Writing:
- We are continuing to work toward our writing
goals. We review individual goals before we begin writing to keep
students focused, as well as meet with the teacher in small groups with
other students with similar goals..
- We keep our “alphabet sound card” in our book
box to help us sound out unknown words independently.
- This week we are creating a class book using
sentence starters such as “I like___”, “I can___” and “I was____”.
We will share the book and have a celebration at the end of the
week!
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Math
Patterns
- This week we will continue to work on patterns
- We will learn that a pattern is 2-3 elements
that repeat at least 3 times.
- We will practice making AB, ABC, and AABB
patterns in our classroom
- We will need to learn how to identify, create,
extend, and reproduce patterns.
At home: You can practice patterns at home!
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Can you make a
pattern with your toys? (cars, stuffed animals, dolls, lego, etc..) What part
repeats? Can you label it, ABAB? AABBAABB? ABCABC?
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Hint: To label a
pattern with letters we look at how it repeats… for example, red, blue, red,
blue… red is the first in the pattern so it is A, blue is new in the pattern
so it is B- each time you see a red it will now be called A and each time you
see a blue it will now be called B. You will be surprised at how well many of
our students know how to do this!
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If your child is
struggling with labelling the pattern, it is helpful to write it out as a
little table and have your child place a pattern on the paper to match! J For example, ABABAB, what will we put on for A? What will we put
on for B? Oh! I see another A, what is A in our pattern?
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Have fun! J
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