This week was all about Ice and snow! (Lol,go figure). We read some fantastic books and watched some interesting videos about how icicles are formed, how many points a snowflake has, what a blizzard is, the different shapes a snowflake can form, fun crafts and science experiments that were all about snow and ice!!! Let’s hope we get some snow soon so our kiddos can play in it!!!
Yesterday we had parents come in for ” take your parent to work day.” If you haven’t signed up for this you need to!! Spend 30 minutes with your child as they are working in the classroom. It’s so amazing to see all that they can do!!Our brand new friend is working on our sandpaper numbers. The purpose of the sandpaper numbers is to teach the children the symbols that represent each number, allowing them to visually identify any number from 0 to 9.One of our Kindergarten students is working on number formation. The purpose of this work is to learn the hierarchy of the numbers in the decimal system. To associate quantity and symbol. And to learn to put numbers of larger quantity into sequence.This little cutie here is working on our Four Season cards. When working on this work the child is learning about each season, and also how to place the cards into different categories.When working on the teen board the child is going to learn to connect the name and symbol of that teen number.
This week in science class, Mr. John taught us about density. We put one egg in salt water and one egg in fresh water. The egg in the salt water floated, and the egg in the fresh water sank! Thanks for a fun science experiment!
Today’s the big day!!! Your kiddos have been working so hard on the Christmas show!!! We are all so excited! ! This week our theme was Christmas around the world!! We learned all of the different traditions and how people celebrate in England, Russia, Germany, China, and in South America. It was so cool learning all about the different ways they celebrate Christmas in other countries!! Ms. Amanda had such great crafts that went along with the different countries. It was so much fun !!
This work helps the child memorize the essential combinations in addition. The various charts give the possibility of repetition, which helps to fix these in the memory of the child. When working on different word lists it helps the child associate words with the same anomalies with each other, thereby making reading phonograms easier. The sandpaper letters teach the child the sounds of the alphabet. When working on this the child is encouraged to trace the symbol over and over again until the shape of the letter becomes a part of the childs muscle memory.
REMINDERS:
Tonight is the Christmas show!! Please get to the high school at 530 sharp!!!
Next week is christmas fun week!!
Monday- christmas socks day
Tuesday – dress as your favorite Christmas character
We had such a fantastic week learning all about being thankful!! Together we read some amazing books that taught them what it really means to be thankful. We also had a great discussion on wants vs’s needs!! Your kiddos did such a great job on this, so we decided to make a chart out of it!! Together we also created our own class book about everything we are thankful for. It’s in our library, so come check it out!!! Ms. Amanda also had our friends create different crafts that gave them a better understanding of what it means to be thankful:)
Take a look at our wants vs needs chart up above and down below our class is working hard drawing and writing what they are thankful for.The movable alphabet is such an awesome tool that teaches reading, spelling, and writing. It’s one of my favorite works!The purpose of the sandpaper letters is to teach the child the sounds of the alphabet by means of muscular and visual memory. The child is encouraged to trace the symbol over and over again until the shape of the letter becomes part of the childs muscle memory.One of our Kindergarten students is working on our North America puzzle. He is taking his time coloring and labeling the different countries .
Acedemic Enrichment Corner:
Weekly Theme: We learned how to multiple to the thousand static/column without carryovers with manipulatives. I told the students that multiplication is merely adding multiple times. We learned what the multiplicand and multiplier are.
X for multiplication
Handwriting: We practiced writing in cursive three letter words cat, red, pit, mop, cup
Cultural Subjects: We now can count to ten in 19 languages (English, Sign Language, Latin, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili).
Next Week: Weekly Theme: GO BUCKEYES
Synonym Of The Week:
Sight Words Of The Week:
Adding no languages to the languages
Reading group:
This week in reading group we started a new book called Waiting Is Not Easy. Together we read the book and talked about what we were wondering about durine the story. They then wrote out their answers in their booklets. We also led a discussion about a time that we all felt tired of waiting for something and how we felt during that time. We had a blast!!!
This week in science class, Mr. John taught us about surface tension! We poured some pepper into a bowl of water, and then placed a cotton swab covered in dish soap into the bowl. We observed the pepper move away from the dish soap. Thank you for such a fun science class!
These past two weeks have been SPOOKTACULAR! We had the best time learning about the differencs between an arachnid and an insect. We also had fun creating a tree web together! I was so proud of how well your kiddos remembered all of the different spider facts! They also had fun making different spider crafts:) This week the kids had a BLAST making their own Halloween decorations for the classroom party!We also worked really hard on the different chores, such as dusting, taking out the trash, cleaning the tables, sweeping, vacuming, and more! When children are doing chores it helps them to incur a sense of purpose at a young age. It also helps them gain their own independence.
All of our friends are having a blast dusting, rolling mats, and vacuming!our friend is working on creating a landform booklet. When doing this he is learning all about an island, bay, cape, gulf, peninsula, strait, archipelago, and isthmus.Our friends are crafting up a storm this week!!!Candy corn fun!The key purpose of the Movable alphabet is to prepare children for writing, reading, and spelling. The child’s use of the material progresses from single words, to phrases, and eventually stories.
REMINDERS:
Please make sure to place your child’s costume in their backpack or in a labled bag. They do not have to bring in a trick o treat bag because we made them in class. 11:30 our pizza party will start, followed by costume change. If you have any questions at all please ask!
In music class, Ms. Lisa talked about how we have a choice, so we were given the choice between two different instruments. Thank you for a fun music class!