Week 16

STUFFED ANIMAL DAY!
 

 

We earned our goal of earning 100 tally marks and our reward was bringing our stuffed animals to school one day.  It was so much fun!  All the students were teachers and taught their animal what Kindergarten Leaders are all about!  Take a look at some of the things we did...

 We taught them how to sit with power.

 How to be a Kindergarten Leader and clean the room.

 We taught them how to follow directions in Spanish Class with Mrs. Sorensen

 We taught them how to sit in a chair and listen.

We taught them how to read a book

 

 and say the pledge.

 We taught them the snap words: you, me

and all about solid 3D shapes.

MATH ~ Patterns

We worked on PATTERNING a lot last week.  Please take time to look for patterns at home and point them out to your child.  They could be patterns with objects, colors, numbers and letters of the alphabet. 
So far we have learned how to make an AB, ABC and AAB patterns.  They will be using this knowledge when they create their graham cracker house.

Monday we will be making a Christmas Countdown Chain with an AB pattern using the colors RED and GREEN.  I hope you will hang this up somewhere special.  Each day help your child to remember to tear one chain off and practice their counting skills.

Ex. “My chain had 19 links.  I took 1 away.  Now I have 18 links left.”

“I have 8 red links and 9 green links.  9 is more than 8.  8 is less than 9.”

Show your child these patterns and have them tell you what comes next.  

 Is each row an AB, ABC, or AAB pattern?

 

Home Learn Folder

This week in your child’s Home Learn Folder you will see:

     A Pizza Hut Coupon 

If your child turned in their reading minutes for November they have earned a FREE personal pan pizza (compliments of Pizza Hut).  Thank you for supporting you child’s learning by having them read or by reading to them every week.  Especially on RAZ KIDS! Don’t forget to write down all of their minutes on the homework bookmark each week.

       Math Unit 5 Assessment ~ Shapes

Please celebrate your child’s successes on this test!  Everyone did so well! It has been so fun to hear the children talk about and describe the attributes of a shape. I also LOVED seeing what they brought from home for their Shapes Show and Tell!  Some kids earned 14 and 15 pennies for all of the shapes they brought!

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TUESDAY ~ We will be going on our field trip to the Ogden Nature Center to learn about animals in the winter!  We will learn that they hibernate, generate, propagate, insulate, and migrate.  We will also be making bird feeders and crawl through a bear den and mice holes.

Please make sure you send your child in full winter gear: coat, hat, mittens or gloves, and boots or sturdy shoes.  Part of the time we will be outside – regardless of the weather.  We will also be wearing our school uniform that day.

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 Graham Cracker STEM Project ~ December 20th

Thank you to the parents that have already donated to our upcoming project!!!

We now have enough of these things:

·         Plastic knives

·         Royal icing from Toppers

·         Cups for the frosting

·         Pretzels

We still need these things:

·         Lots more candy and cereal that would be good for making patterns

·         26 dinner size sturdy paper plates