Third Week in December: December 18-21st (4 day week)

Morning Meeting Share: Favorite/Silly Hat Day

Pass the gingerbread man and share about your hat (if you wish).

This week we celebrated three class birthdays that will occur over winter break.

Writing: Making a birthday book for the first of the three.

Book choice time.

Monday's Read-Aloud

Word Work: Color By Sight Words

Review of five familiar snap words.

Reading to Mrs. Cornell!

Both hands have a job!

Make sure your partner can hear you reading.  Your partner is there to support you.

Partner Reading: Elbow, elbow, knee, knee.

The partner reading the story is in the middle, other two partners support the reader.

Pick "just right" books for you.

Retelling The Gingerbread Man with stick puppets.

If your child has not brought them home yet, look for them to come home after break!

Enjoy hearing your child retell this story!

Paper emergent readers like this winter one will come home in your child's reading journal bag.

They feature the snap words we are studying and are often thematic.

Please treat these paper books like the other emergent reader books in the bag.

If signed out in your child's reading journal bag, they should come back to school in the bag, thank you!

Some children have been taking home books to read.

Please watch for this Zip-Loc Bag in your child's Home/School Folder.

Please help by keeping everything in the Zip-Loc.

The goal is to practice two or three days at home (hopefully with an adult) and then send it back to school.

A Quiet Time Choice on Monday: Color by Teen Number.

Well done!

Math: Concentrating on teen numbers.

Working in her Gingerbread Man Ten Frame Book.

Choice time: Easel.

Choice Time: Art Table: Watercolor Gingerbread Houses.

Morning Meeting Share

🧁 Celebrating a December 23rd birthday.  Happy 6th Birthday! 🎈

December has been a good month, a busy month.

Our pattern this month was ABB: Mitten, snowflake, snowflake.

Go Noodle Freeze Dance

Go Noodle gingerbread man movement activity.

SEL with Mrs. McDermott on Tuesday morning.

Mindfulness sandboxes.

Tuesday was Sweater Day!

Exploring with quiet instrumental music.  Listening to the song.  

See if you know the song (listening carefully).

Many beautiful and fun sweaters were worn on this day!

Learning how a breathing ball can help practice mindfulness.

Lots of fun/cozy sweaters!

Each sand box was unique.

Lets Find Out: Holidays

Gingerbread dance break!

Extra movement opportunities are especially necessary at this exciting time of year!

More practice with answering graph questions.

Writing: Completing the second of three birthday books for the birthdays over break.

Kindergarten Spelling (Invented Spelling): Silly Pizza!

Handwriting this week: Lowercase k.

Completing letter k pages in her handwriting book.

Words for Me and Sentence for Me.

Treats from the office! Each child picks their book.

Choice time: Puzzles

Completed a 100-piece Bernstein Bears Puzzle!

Thanks for sending the outdoor boots and warm clothes needed for recess!

Calendar: Celebrating a December 26th birthday!

🧁 Happy 6th Birthday! 🎈

Izzy's family donated a special winter owl craft: Winter Owl Magnets!

Miss York helping to explain the steps.

Thank you to Izzy's family for this fun craft!

Office and classroom treats for his birthday (December 26th)!

Wednesday's read-aloud.  Talking about the seasons changing and Winter Solstice.

A special craft for the winter solstice: beaded snowflakes!

Completed his first snowflake.

No two snowflakes are alike. Miss York helps the blue hexagon table.

Thank you to Izzy's mom (Jaime) for coming in to help with the snowflake craft project!

The snowflakes came out great and the children had less wait time to have theirs tied.

Every child was able to complete at least one snowflake!  They were very proud!

They were quite beautiful!

I hope you saw your child's snowflake!

Some students were able to complete two!

Home lunch in the cafeteria.

Wednesday was Guess How Many Day at Pond Cove!

Math: Estimation

Each student and staff estimated how many pom poms were in the minion!

Making his estimation.

We found out on Thursday that Jack in our class submitted 

one of the closest guesses 

for all of kindergarten!  

Nice work Jack! 😍

Wednesday's Choice time: Pretend with Polly Pocket and Littlest Pet Shop.

"Moon rock" outdoor play.

Thursday morning celebrating the third birthday that will occur over winter break (December 31st).

Singing Happy birthday and our age song to the birthday boy.

Moving his cupcake from the five to the six-year-old group.

The changing graph shows we ended the year with nine five-year-olds and eight six-year-olds.

Calendar

Enjoying a special video The Snowman by Raymond Briggs.

  

Thursday was Blue and White/Snowflake Day, and many children participated!

She finished her beaded snowflake!

Snack time

Math: Working to secure the tricky teen numbers: identifying, counting with one-to-one match, recording in a ten frame.  The My Teen Ten Frame Books went home if completed.

Tuesday's read-aloud.

The children enjoyed this one!

Sharing his office treats!

December was busy month!

Three class birthdays to celebrate.

Many fun school spirit days!

ABB Pattern: Mitten, snowflake, snowflake.

Friday's Choice Time: Pretend

Puzzles: Trying to complete another 100 piece puzzle before break!

Thank you for all the notes and cards with such kind words!

The cookies sent in for the teachers were also appreciated!

Have a safe, healthy, and restful December Break!

Happy New Year!

🥳 See you in 2024! 🎉