Week 17- December 3- December 7

Happy Sunday! I hope you all stayed cozy on this chilly weekend. Thinking of gift ideas for the upcoming holidays? Why not snag a few books as gifts for your little ones? We will submit another Scholastic Book Order on Friday, December 7^th. This way there will be plenty of time to receive the books before the last day leading up to Winter Break. 

Order online at www.scholastic.com/bookclubs and use our class code: QDR6N . You can pick a free book when you order $25 or more of books. Use the code: READS to get a $5 free book.        

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 homes as well. Our elf will not only bring excitement to our classroom, he will also bring acts of kindness each day. He is a lot of fun and it is a great way to bring out positive and loving behavior in our little scholars! I am excited for them to meet him and give him a name. 

Here's a look at our upcoming week in kinder!

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: 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 review list two then test on Friday. Please be sure to review these words in addition to your child’s nightly reading. 

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 be exploring water in three different states; liquid, solid, and gas. Students will learn the states of matter and will be able to identify various things in each category. We will learn about snowflakes, how they form and that each is unique. At the end of the week we will discuss what a habitat is and that many animals in a cold habitat have blubber to keep warm.