December Upcoming Events

Hi Parents!
This is our last week of school before our winter break!!! 

Tuesday, December 17th we have our Green Grinch Day in our classroom.  Please have your child wear green or something Grinchy.

Wednesday, December 18th please be sure to send in your $2 for our pizza party on Friday! 
*Today your child will be coming home with a special surprise for YOU!  Please check their backpacks!!!

Thursday, December 19th we have our Christmas Around Kindergarten where the students will rotate to each teacher for a fun filled day of Holiday games and crafts.

Friday, December 20th we have our Polar Express Day!  We can all wear our pjs and drink hot chocolate. 
At 11:00 we will have our Christmas Party in our classroom.  We will have pizza and decorate cookies!  After that you are free to take your little Elf home and get your holiday festivities started!

Check this out!

Look at all of the fun activities we have been up to lately....

We read, compared, and contrasted several Gingerbread stories.

Then, we disguised our Gingerbread so that no one would eat them!!!

We learned about Elves and how they help Santa
then chose which kind of elf we would like to be...

Finally, we elfed our self



 

 

 

Heating

In science this week we have learned a lot about heating, sources of heat, and how it changes things.  Here are some pictures from an experiment we did with using our hand as a heat source with ice.

Here we experimented with a chocolate chip and M&Ms to see which melts faster in our mouth and why.  Everyone agreed the chocolate chip melted faster!

We also did an experiment to see how heat can change things.  We watched popcorn kernels being made into popcorn!

  

Up Coming Events!

Friday, November 22, 2013 at 10:30 am  in our Classroom we will have our
Wilkinson Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast!
After learning all about Thanksgiving traditions and customs our students will get to choose to dress up as a Native American or Pilgrim on that day (we will be making costumes in class as part of our Thanksgiving research) and enjoy a delicious thanksgiving feast.  There will be a Sign up Genius sent out will a list of items we will need.  Please make sure ALL food is cooked and prepared BEFORE it is brought to school.  Parents are welcome to come help out, watch, and celebrate with us!




November 4th is the 50th Day of Kindergarten!!!!  
We celebrate the number 50 all day long with fun and academic learning stations!  Come dressed like it is the 1950s.  We will have a sock hop and ice cream sundaes at the end of our day in the cafeteria!  If you would like to volunteer please send a note or email me letting me know if you can help!  The students will have so much fun on this day and I will post pictures of our fun activities! 

Wish List

All year long we will use the following items for different activities.  
I know many of you would normally throw these items away but please send them in clean and dry for our classroom use:
-Water bottle caps
-Milk container caps

Thank you so much for your help and support!  :)

Labeling

In Writer's Workshop we learned how LABELS can make our writing more interesting by adding details!  We also practiced all week long stretching out or sounding out our words when we wrote labels.  

Here is where we labeled our friend Bradley!  He had a lot of fun :)
                                       
When your child writes at home, please encourage them to write all of the letter sounds they hear.  As they get more confident in their letter ID and letter sound recognition they are really beginning to enjoy stretching out words . Keep up the great practice at home!

Early Numbers 0, 1, 2

We have been learning all about early numbers 0, 1, and 2 this week.  Check out all the ways we can represent this number...

Talk to your child about the different ways to make these numbers.  Also, practice counting to and past these numbers, and practice writing these numbers. We will be learning about numbers 3, 4, and 5 next week. 

Patterns

We began learning about patterns last week.  We started with AB patterns (ex: green, red, green, red, green, red...).  This week we focused on ABC patterns (ex: dog, lion, flower, dog, lion, flower...).  See the fun ways we practiced our ABC patterns below with fall leaves and today with fruit loop necklaces!  Try having your child make patterns at home using household items.

           

Five Senses

Here is our 5 senses guy!  We have been working on learning about our 5 senses (sight, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching) all week long.  Ask your child about the fun experiments we have done using our 5 senses.

Sight Words

Each week, I will add the sight words we are currently working on in class (in red).  Please practice these sight words at home each night.  Once we have added the sight words to our word wall (each Friday), they will change to black font below.  This means we should have them mastered.  However, we will continue to practice them each and every day.  I highly suggest that you use the flash cards provided from parent information night to practice each night.  
Thank you for helping your child succeed!

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