Short Week

Holiday Party 

Centers

Interactive Writing 

Learning about different cultures- China and Mexico

Phonics- learning about different diagraphs/chunks- ch, sh, th, wh

Gingerbread Unit

  We had a very busy and exciting week in KS! Here are some of the very important things we learned...

Our theme this week continued to focus on stories by Jan Brett. We even had a visit from a sneaky visitor, the Gingerbread Baby! More to come next week! 

 We incorporated some fun gingerbread activities into our literacy centers.  This week's centers included writing prompts and activities that focused on The Hat and The Mitten, finding and writing gingerbread power words, digraph games, and more!

In Social Studies, we have been learning about our continents and oceans and are about to learn about cultures from different countries around the world. We started by learning about Eid from two of the friends in our class!

We continued working on visualizing and retelling during Reading. We learned the new vocabulary words: pleasant, unpleasant, crowded, and uncrowded.  We talked about suffixes (un-) and antonyms (opposites).

In Writing, we worked on adding more details to our stories. We asked and answered questions with our partners to help us brainstorm more ideas for our writing. 

During Math, we worked on building shapes with other shapes. We will finish up our unit on flat and solid (2D and 3D) shapes next week. Ask your child to identify the following shapes: circle, rectangle, square, triangle, hexagon, cube, cone, pyramid, sphere, and cylinder. 

In this week’s Second Steps lesson, we learned that a kind act is something we can do to help someone feel good. We practiced suggesting kind acts to do for people in different scenarios. Encourage your child to think of a kind act they could do for someone, for example a sibling, grandparent, or neighbor.

Looking ahead...

Holiday Happiness Drive ends 12/18

Home 2 Home Orphanage supplies due 12/18 (Thank you SO much for your generosity and support!) 

Winter Party 12/20

Early Release Day 12/20

Winter Break 12/21-1/3

School Resumes 1/4

Have a great weekend. STAY HEALTHY!

We are practiced visualizing our vocabulary words like noiseless or companion 

Social Studies- studying our maps

Thank goodness for beautiful days

More visualizing 

Centers

Math

Our counseling lesson with Mrs. Balsavias- learning about resilience (bouncing back or going splat)

Writing

Centers

Our Mystery Reader this week was Adriana's mom. We loved learning about how we can be "purple people."

The Reed Garden was open on Friday :)