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Sunday, January 7, 2024

First Week in January: January 2nd-5th (No School New Year's Day, so 4 Day Week)

Morning Meeting Tuesday Morning - First School Day in 2024!


Activity: Singing a New Year's Song!
Ask your child to sing it for you!


Tuesday's read-aloud.
Learning about resolutions.




Craft to go with resolutions.


Color


cut


Writing his resolution.



 
Fancying her New Year's resolution.


Story
A rhyming New Year's story.


Reading
Partner reading: retelling The Gingerbread Man with stick puppets.


Reading
Partners: Practicing keeping match as he reads to his partner.


Tuesday's Quiet Time Choice: New year's Color By Number.


Handwriting: chalkboard: lowercase v and w.


chalkboard v (dry try)


Wet lowercase w (wet try).


Practicing the correct formation of v and w in her handwriting book.



New at Choice Time: Legos


Polly Pocket Play


New at Choice Time: Building with Magnetics.



Wednesday's Morning Meeting Activity: January Poem!



Wednesday's Writing: Finishing up his New Year's Resolution.  Fancying his piece for the hallway.



Sharing resolutions at writing share.



Jack: I want to finish my micro lego set!


John: I want to read more books.


Sawyer: I am going to clean my house because it's helpful.


Izzy: I am going to make my bed.


The children's resolutions are hung in the kindergarten hallway.



Read Aloud: Listening and showing empathy.





Reading: Reading a winter emergent story to his partner.
Skills the children are practicing:



Word study: (in)


Science Non- Fiction


Science: Weather: Seasons
Partner Work
Sequencing the four seasons.


Mystery Science lesson



Circle of Seasons Poster



Reading
Independent work in a winter emergent reader.


Thursday's Morning Meeting Share.



The children especially enjoyed this weather book.  It took us around the world!



Science
Cutting out a birthday candle for recording his birthday in our Circle of Seasons chart.


Placing her candle into the correct season.
Ask your child when their birthday is and what season it is in!


Thursday's Read Aloud: Nonfiction



Quiet Time Color By Number Choice


Handwriting: Lowercase x and y.


Chalkboard practice (dry try).


Working on the correct formation of lowercase x in her handwriting book.


Working on the correct formation of lowercase y in her handwriting book.


Friday's fiction read aloud.
Working on retelling.


Reading Let's Find Out
Warming Up in Winter



Dance Break


vocabulary work


Concentration game on adaptations.


Weather story before the expected storm Saturday into Sunday.




Practicing reading a weather emergent reader.
You may see this come home in your child's reading journal bag.










lowercase x (slide down letter)


lowercase y (slide down tail letter)


A choice at quiet time on Friday: sketch books.



Math
Understanding the terms greater and less, showing which is larger and smaller, more and less.

Circling the larger of the two sets.


Which is greater?


Touch counting to determine which set is greater.


Sets in a ten frame.
Which is larger.
How do you know?


Math: Independent work recording which set is more.

Coloring in the ten frame that has more.



Spanish class with SeƱora Bravo.
When you are happy and you know it (song and movements).
Spanish occurs in our classroom.

☃️
Learning Spanish names for shapes and colors.

The children are looking forward to the expected snow!
Please send all the gear needed to play in it!
We go outside twice a day when possible.

Next Week:
Snowpants 
Boots 
Coat 
Hat 
Mittens

☃️ Enjoy the fresh new snow! ❄️ 

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