Dec 22-27

This week was Christmas week!! We worked very hard to make sure our speeches and songs were perfect. Banana class sang the song, "I'm a Little Snowman" and the all kindergarten song, "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer". In addition to all the practices we did for the Christmas performance, we also continued working with the tools vocabulary. We also did more work with addition using the marshmallow math. Everyone loves counting so much, every chance we had free moments in class this week, the kids would practice their skills at addition. 

To learn more about shapes, we used play do to create shapes and count their sides.

At the end of the week, we had art class. This week, we got to make santas' elves. 

We colored our elves and then cut them out. Using push pins, we added the elf arms and legs so the elves were able to move and dance!

We continued learning more letters, both upper and lower case. We did a lot of practice sorting the letters to differentiate the big and small letters. We also played a new favorite game of bean bag toss to increase our use of letter specific words. Everyone had to think of a different vocabulary letter for the word A (for example) each time the bean bag was passed. Later in the week, we used an alphabet board game to practice new words and make all the letter sounds. 

I hope everyone had a Very Merry Christmas!!

Dec 15-19

The week we have started working on a new theme of tools and the order of things (first, next, then, last). We have created flash card to review all our tools. We are also learning about how animals grow: first and egg, then a caterpillar, last a butterfly! It's great fun to learn the order of things. 

We are also continuing our work on the alphabet and phonics. This week we should get through the letter W. We practice our writing and the order of the alphabet. We have done fun projects that also incorporate the upcoming holiday,Christmas!!

We worked on an alphabet Christmas tree! It's still in progress, but here are some photos:

We have also continued to practice our Christmas songs and skit!!! Christmas is right around the corner :D and we are going to put on a great show for you.

For our art project, we made name snowmen!! We cut out the pieces and traced our names. Then ewe were able to decorate them and put them all together :D

And the finished project!!

Dec 8-12

In this week, we continued on our theme of neighborhood places. We have also taken to learning about other places we commonly see, like the beach and the police station. This week we learned about objects in the classroom. We discussed the things we need to bring with us to school: backpack, pencil, books, lunch box, etc.

We worked on skills of differentiation using coloring worksheets. It was also important to continue strengthens our writing skills, especially with the numbers, using addition then tracing to practice skills. 

In phonics class, we have worked up through the letter T. We continue to practice out tracing skills and I have been increasing the amount of work they have to write on their own. We are also working on the order of the alphabet, knowing which letter comes after another. We also do a lot of activities to learn new vocabulary. The favorite game recently has been a bean bag toss game.

We have the best time with our art craft, we handprint Santa Claus! We traced our hands and even used our hand print to make a Santa hat! We added a beard and eyes and cute Santa nose!

First week of December

For the first week of December, we began a new theme, the neighborhood! We learned about places that are near us: the police station, fire department, park...etc. we have used flash cards to know each place by sight. We also began working on association with things that belong in each place, such as a fire truck belongs at the fire department. We also have continued to practice our shapes and number skills. We use simple math to color by number. We also strengthen our fine motor skills by cutting projects and creating shapes. We have begun working very diligently on our Christmas performance. For our class song, we will be doing I'm a little snowman. Everyone agreed on Rudolph the red nosed reindeer for everyone to sing together! We have had great fun learning the dance and all the words. 

For phonics, we continue to work through the alphabet. We learn to differentiate lower case and upper case letters. We have worked up through letter S. The focus has been to strengthen our writing. We also use songs to learn new words for each letter. The kids love games that require their matching skills of objects to the correct letter. 

Our first project of the semester was a snow flake!!

Last week of November

November has officially come to an end. We end the month with a special celebration of thanksgiving! We got to eat turkey. It was a delicious treat. 

We finished our theme of the senses. We now learned well that eyes see, ears hear, mouths taste, nose smells, and hands and feet touch. We did many experiments to test our senses. 

We also did really fun projects to learn about thanksgiving. Such as making a finger print turkey and making a turkey hat!

In phonics class, we have gotten all the way to letter Q. We constantly practice our writing skills of both the big and small letters. We have also been working to increase our vocabulary with worksheets and using real life objects to make the letter sound to the alphabet letters we know.

Nov 17-21

We have started on our theme for the second two weeks of November! We are learning about the 5 senses. For this unit, Teacher Chelsie has incorporated a lot of science projects to test our senses. For example, she has brought in things that smell great to things that are really stinky. We have done blind listening tests to sense of sound. 

We have also been l learning about the upcoming holiday Thanksgiving. We have learned the history of pilgrims, Indians and all the yummy food we eat for thanksgiving!!

Nov 10-14

We are now full swing into November and the theme of fall. The kids have been learning words that talk about fall and plants, such as: jacket, turkey, branch, trunk, leaf, roots, and hat.

We have learned about how a plant grows and the things it needs to live (water, air, and sun). We have done very well learning the vocabulary. The kids are able to identify all the vocabulary flash cards without any problems. We have also worked on our skills at cutting and pasting, to make sure these are skills we can do without the teacher's help. 

For phonics, we have worked on my M,N, and O. Not only is it important to learn new vocabulary, but also how to trace the letters. The kids are very proficient in their pronunciation of the letters and they know how to correctly say many words. Primaryily, I want them to learn how to write. We have done many activities to practice their writing.