Important Dates:

December 6- Christmas Program

December 9-13 – 2nd Quarter Testing

December 20- Class Christmas Party

December 23-27- NO SCHOOL, Christmas Break

Student of the Month:

Braelyn

Show and Tell Schedule: Free Choice

Language Arts: We will focus on the letters Z,z and W,w. Along with reviewing all the letters we have done so far Mondays – letter craft,Tuesdays – Animated alphabet along with letter stamping, Wednesday- letter tracing/copying and letter find games in class, Thursday – letter case identification and Friday letter playdough.

Math: We will be working on counting and comparing numbers through 10. We will also continue with our numbers of the day.

Learning without tears: We will continue using our books in class. We will be working on all the colors and doing shapes. We will also be using our letter stamping set and our slates to practice forming and writing our letters.

Remember, you are always welcome to to look at these books any time.

Theme:

December’s theme is dinosaurs. This is has always been a favorite of the children. We will be talking about the different types there are and the names. We will also be talking about Christmas and the meaning behind it.

December 6- Christmas Program
December 20- Class Christmas Party
December 23-27- NO SCHOOL, Christmas Break

Merry Christmas!!!

Focus of the Month: Dinosaurs
Student of the Month: Katherine

Theme: The theme for the whole month of December is dinosaurs. We will learn about dinosaurs with many books and science projects!

Language Arts: We are working on letters D,E,F. We will be tracing them, identifying the letters and saying words that start with the letter.

Math: We will start recognizing how many of something we have and tracing the numbers 4-7.

Important Dates:

December 6- Christmas Program

December 20- Christmas Party

December 23-27- Closed for Christmas break

Focus of the Month: Learning Colors

Student of the Month: Zaiden

Theme: The theme for the whole month of December is Dinosaurs. We will be discovering different kinds of dinosaurs through different science activities.

Language Arts: This month we will start working on identifying letters in our names. Identifying letters in our names will be done through multiple hands-on activities.

Math: The month of December we will start working hard on identifying colors. We will use different activities such as file folder games, counting bears to sort out colors and many other activities.

Classroom News: Merry Christmas!!!

Important Dates:

December 6- Christmas Program

December 18- BOOMER visits

December 20- Class Christmas Party

December 23-27- NO SCHOOL, Christmas Break

Student of the Month:

Ananya C.

Show and Tell Schedule:

December 6- A dinosaur

December 13- something Christmas

December 20- FREE CHOICE

December 27- NO SCHOOL

Language Arts:

Please continue studying your spelling words at home. This month I am introducing the “wh”, “th” and “ch” sounds, as well as the soft c sound. These typically cause a little more confusion during test times, so please review these sounds with your child.

December 2-6: den, glen, hen, men, open, pen, ten, then, when, brown

December 9-13: bent, cent, dent, tent, rent, sent, lent, vent, went, white

December 16-20: best, chest, jest, nest, pest, rest, test, vest, zest, one

December 30-January 3- NO SPELLING

Math:

We are working on money and values. This is something that a lot of students are struggling with. A great tip for helping your child with coin names and values is to pull your lose change out of your pocket and tell your child if they can tell you the name of the coin and how much it is that they can have it. Children really enjoy getting coins to save (or spend). If you want you can start with just coin names. When they know those add the values. If they learn all the coins and the values you can challenge them to add up all the coins to find the total. This process may take awhile, but the student will be motivated to learn them if they get to keep the money.

Theme:

December’s theme is dinosaurs. This is one of the class favorites. The students will learn names of dinosaurs. They will also be learning about carnivores and herbivores. This is a fun theme. We get to make a volcano explode and dig up fossils. We will be learning key words, such as: fossil, extinct, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, and volcano.

Important Dates:

November 3- Daylight saving time ends, change clocks one hour back

November 20- BOOMER visits

November 28-29- NO SCHOOL, Thanksgiving Break

Student of the Month: Genesia

Our theme this month is all about animals. We will incorporate animals into our daily work. We will still be doing our letter of the week and our number of the day as well.

Language Arts: This month we will continue with our Animated Alphabet with our weekly letters. This month we will be working on the letters H, J and K. We will review our letter the week of Thanksgiving since it is a short week. Everyone seems to really enjoy all the hands on activities so they will continue being a part of our small group time. These will alternate with the theme, holiday, month, and/or letter of the week. We are still working on letter recognition and writing while practicing our fine motor skills to strengthen hand coordination.

Math: This month we will work hard on number recognition up to 30. We will continue using the white boards daily to write our numbers as well as our number of the day workbooks. Like with Language Arts, we will be doing a lot of hands on work. These will consist of matching numbers to objects and counting objects. We will also work on our counting by 1’s to 100, counting backwards from 10 to 0, and begin working on counting by 10’s and possibly 5’s if the 10’s are mastered.

As always our show n tell is Friday afternoons and is free choice. The only rule is no weapons.

Important Dates:
November 28-29: Closed for Thanksgiving
Focus of the Month: Giving thanks and animals
Student of the Month: Moses
Theme: The theme for the whole month of November is Animals. We will be learning about all the different animals and their homes.
Language Arts: This month we will be introducing basic sign language and work on tracing our names.
Math: We will start recognizing how many of something we have and tracing the numbers 1-5.

Show & Tell
Friday Nov. 1st- Letter A
Friday Nov. 8th- Letter B
Friday Nov. 15th- Letter C
Friday Nov. 22th- Animal
Friday Nov. 29th-NO SCHOOL

Classroom News: Adilenes birthday is Nov. 27th!!

Important Dates:

November 3- Daylight saving time ends, change clocks one hour back

November 20- BOOMER visits

November 28-29- NO SCHOOL, Thanksgiving Break

Student of the Month:

Kyzik B.

Show and Tell Schedule:

November 1- something to TASTE

November 8- A Mammal (an animal with fur)

November 15- An animal that is NOT a mammal (amphibian, reptile, birds, etc.)

November 22- FREE CHOICE

November 29- NO SCHOOL

Language Arts:

This month we are continuing to do our spelling words each week. The words are in word families to help the students learn to rhyme as well as spell. Please continue studying the words at home with your child so that they can feel confident during the test.

Our test words are-

November 4-8: bad, dad, glad, had, lad, mad, pad, clad, sad, orange

November 11-15: back, hack, jack, lack, pack, rack, sack, quack, black, purple

November 18-22: all, ball, call, fall, hall, mall, stall, tall, wall, pink

November 25-29: NO SPELLING TEST

Math:

This month for math we are learning practicing counting by 10s, 5s, and 1s to 100. We are also working on reading two digit numbers from left to right. Some students struggle with reading two digit numbers because they read it from right to left instead of left to right. We will continue doing two worksheets a week as well as playing multiple games to strengthen their number skills.

If you have some free time, play a game with your child called TOP IT. This is a two player game. Start with a stack of cards, shuffled and upside down in the middle. Each person turns over a card. The player with the higher card takes both turned over cards. You continue turning over the cards until the entire deck has been turned over. The players each count their cards. The person with the most cards wins. This game helps the student learn to quickly identify which number is more/less. This also helps with number identification for students who are still struggling with knowing their numbers quickly and easily.

Theme:

For the month of November we are going to be learning all about animals. We will be learning the different types of animals (mammals, reptiles, etc.). We are also going to be discussing animal habitats and what animals need to survive. We will be learning about the life cycle of the frog and how it changes from egg to tadpole to frog. This is a fun month the the students typically enjoy. Learning about animals is fun!

Important Dates:

November 28-29: Closed for Thanksgiving

Student of the Month: Marquis

L.A. – We will be working on the letters Aa, Ff, Vv and then reviewing them. We work on recognition, the sound a letter makes, cutting the letter and a craft for the letter

Math: – We will be working on counting, using/comparing, and putting in to order numbers 1-10

Theme: – This months theme is all about Animals. We will be learninf about farm animals, zoo animals, jungle animals and pets. It will be a fun month! We will also be talking about thanksgiving and makine crafts.

Important Dates:

November 28-29: Closed for Thanksgiving

Focus of the Month: Potty Training

Student of the Month: Varnika

Theme: The theme for the whole month of November is Animals. We will be discovering different kinds of animals through different science activities.

Language Arts: This month we will start working on identifying our names. Identifying our names will be done through multiple hands-on activities.

Math: The month of November we will start working hard on identifying our shapes and colors. We will use different activities such as file folder games, counting bears to sort out colors and many other activities.

Classroom News: This month we have Willa-Rae’s 3rd birthday!!

Important Dates:

October 7-11: Testing Week

October 11: No school/Parent Teacher Conferences

October 31- Halloween Celebration

Student of the Month: Clarence

Show and Tell: Free Choice

Theme: 5 Senses

This month the theme is five senses. We are going to be learning about the five senses. We will focus on one sense each week. We will be doing different activities to learn about the sense and how it works.

Language Arts:

This month we will be working on reconizing the letters E, H, A and X. We will also be learning what sound each letter makes.

We will also be continuing our workbooks in class. We are going to start working on how each letter comes together using wood pieces, playdough and other fun activities.

Math:

We are going to be working on patterns and how we can make and recognize them, using and understanding numbers 0-5. I am also going to be doing a number of the day each day to help us with number recognition.