Weekly Highlights
It was an exciting week with our first snow day on Monday! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and were able to enjoy the extra long weekend! It was wonderful to be with your kids again! Often I’m a bit nervous to come back after a break, but the class transitioned back very well! It was exciting to switch our classroom over to Christmas. I love celebrating this time of year with kindergarteners because they are so filled with awe and wonder. This advent time of waiting takes on new meaning through the eyes of a child! Jesus truly is the reason for our celebrating this season and we will keep our eyes fixed on him as we celebrate Christmas together.
Important Dates
- December 3: Christmas Scholastic order due (Our classroom code is MH4J6. Use this link to see the flyers online.)
- December 20: All school Chapel 9:00- All are welcome! Kindergarteners will be leading!
- December 21: Christmas class celebration (details to come)
- December 24- January 4: Christmas break
Reminders
- You may start hearing about the Jingle Jog. This is a fun jog Mrs. Miller has her gym classes do each year. We will have a certain day and time that are class will jog around the gym and down the halls. Families are welcome to cheer kids on. I do not know our day and time yet. Watch for more details. This fun event is to raise money for our sister school in the Philippines. It has become a kindergarten tradition to wear our Christmas pjs while we run. (Fair warning: flannel is hot!) A red and green Christmas outfit would also by very appropriate.
- Nativity Project: In December we will begin our nativity project. Please bring in a shoe box with your child’s name on it and at least 6 toilet paper tubes asap if you haven’t already. There are still several spots left in our SignUp Genius. If you are interested in helping please, I’d really appreciate it! Follow this link to sign up.
Curriculum
Bible: This week we covered more of Moses, including the 10 plagues, crossing the Red Sea, and the 10 Commandments. We also continue to practice the memory verse below.
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbios 3:5-6 Confía en el Señor con todo tu corazón y no en tu propia inteligencia. Reconócelo en todo tus caminos y Él enderezará tus veredas.
Literacy: This week we focused on adjectives. We learned that adjectives and nouns are friends. The job of adjectives is to describe nouns.
- Reading strategy: Questioning
- Read aloud: Soy una hoja
- Vocabulary words:
- la hormiga (ant)
- el sol (sun)
- la oruga (caterpillar)
- la hoja (leaf)
- el árbol (tree)
- Word wall word: tu (your) tú (you)
- Phrase of the week: Me gusta _____. (I like…)
- Letter of the week: Tt
Practicing read to a friend.
Math: We continue to focus on numbers 6-10, looking for the groups of 5 inside the bigger numbers and comparing the numbers using language such as, mayor, greater than, and menor, less than. We also continue to see addition and subtraction problems in the context of daily situations. For example, two boys and two girls ordered hot lunch today, how many ordered hot lunch total?
Writing Workshop: We continue to work on drawing our stories and labeling our drawings, doing our best to stretch out the words and write the sounds we hear. This week we drew and labeled Thanksgiving.
Exploring God’s World: We learned about another Earth material in our unit God’s Earth. I filled a plastic bag with an Earth material and the students recognized it as air! We compared air to the Holy Spirit- we know it’s there and can sometimes feel it even though we can’t see it.
Afternoons: In play we’ve been pretending doctor a lot. The art center continues to be a favorite. Tuesday afternoon we created a book comparing the words grande, big, and pequeño, small. Wednesday Mr. Meyer led us in K-5 singing. Thursday afternoon we did a Christmas literacy activity focusing on initial sounds. Friday we had art!
Up in Lights: Aiden was Up in Lights this week! Aiden, you ask great questions. Your excitement for learning helps motivate your classmates (and your teachers too!) We’re so glad you’re in our class! Thanks for sharing your favorite book, Rumble in the Jungle.
