Spanish started on Monday!  Everyone enjoyed meeting their spanish teacher and learning some new words.  We will no longer have library time on Monday. Our new day for Library is WEDNESDAY, so please be sure that your child brings in his or her library book by Wednesday.

Good Readers...

• Preview books and make predictions.
• Study what is going on in the picture and notice how the character is feeling.
• Use their "magic wand" to point under each word.
• Find words that they know!

Sight Words - Class words - look and on.  Individual sight words went home today.

Good Writers...

• Brainstorm about a personal experience or memory.
• Illustrate and label their story.
• Add to the picture, add to the words, and start a new story.

Good Mathematicians learn about 3-D shapes!  We identified and sorted 3-D Shapes - cone, cylinder, ball shape (sphere), and box shapes (cube and rectangular prism).  Everyone enjoyed sorting the various 3-D items that were brought in for our museum.  Thanks for your support!

Social Studies - We began discussing various holidays like Sinterklass and Hanukkah.  We will continue to talk about December holidays and traditions throughout the month.  We completed a Second Steps lesson on feelings.  We talked about how you can tell a lot about how someone is feeling by looking at his/her facial expression and body language.

It was so nice speaking with all of you at conferences.  Next week we are back to full day Kindergarten:)  We will have our first World Language class on Monday afternoon!

Good Readers...

• Use their fingers to point and make sure they're reading each word.
• Find patterns and notice where they change.
• Preview books - look at the cover and pictures.
• Look for sight words in their books.

Our Shared Reading this week was the "at Family Poem."  We looked for sight words and all the words ending with the -at sound (cat, mat, bat, sat, hat).

Sight Words - our two new class words are that and with.  Individual sight words were sent home this week. 

Good Writers...

• Brainstorm a personal experience.
• Illustrate their story and add labels.
• Work hard to stretch out letter sounds.

Good Mathematicians...

• Identify and describe 2-D shapes - 3 sides/4sides straight sides, round, etc.
• Sort and classify 2-D shapes.
• Find shapes in the world around them.