Indoor Recess:
Doggie, Doggie where's your bone? 

Everyone wants to either be 
the dog or the tapper!

Choice Time: Creative design with pattern blocks.

Math:
Before & after number 
writing practice.

K goals: I can read the numbers 0-30.
             I can write the numbers 0-30.

Math:
Solving combinations to 10.

K goal: I can solve addition 

problems to 10.

Choice Time: 100 piece gingerbread house puzzle.
Their goal was to complete it before break & they did!

A little down time on the day before break.
Video: Raymond Brigg's
The Snowman

Have a wonderful winter break with your family! Your children are a joy to teach, they are working very hard socially and academically. 

I hope they enjoy their "down time". 

I look forward to seeing them in 2018! Happy New Year! 🎉

Guided Reading
Teacher Time:
Carefully tracking print as she reads aloud.

Teacher Time:
Reading a new book at your own pace.
Working together to solve unknown words.
What strategy should we try?

Teacher Time:
Practicing reading smooth with her eyes, remembering the
 information read to be ready to discuss the story at the end.
We practice a good retell at the end.
When your child reads to you at home, 
please listen to their retell.

Teacher Time:

Practicing reading the repeating pattern smooth.

When paper books are signed out in your child's

reading journal, please treat them like our "regular

books". If they are signed out, they should come

back to school. It means we have more work 

to do with them, thanks!           

Word Work:
Independent work that practices high frequency words.
It is helpful if you can ask your child what word they are learning
when these come home. If they are unable to read it, try keeping it
around to check in later. Maybe it could hang in their room
or on the refrigerator? As a class we are working on being
able to read and write a larger core of sight words.

Word Work:

Independent work that practices sight words 

and offers reading practice. This page will go 

in a class book that will come home for 

sharing after the break. 

Celebrating the winter solstice with crafts!

Great opportunity to use
small muscles (fine motor) and be creative!

No two snowflakes are alike!

Thank you Emily for helping
with our snowflake craft!

Thank you Allison for helping 
with our snowflake craft!

Time and interest allowed some
children to also try a candy cane.

Some children worked on a 
patterned candy cane.

The cover of the birthday book.

Celebrating our 

fourth birthday 

in our classroom!

One friend's page:
You are one of my friends!

Another peer's page:
I hope you get the light up tent!

Mr. Manjourides comes by to wish her a happy birthday
and deliver her birthday certificate which entitles her to 
choose a book from he and Mrs. Forrey-Pettit's collection!

She picked this one to add to her personal library!

December Math Club with Mrs. Butterworth

How the ten frame works with tricky teens.

Building teen numbers as 10
and how many more?

Building thirteen on the big teen board. 

Creating individual teen boards.

Practicing writing teen numbers playing Reach For The Top.
Thank you Allison for your help in Math Lab!

What fun to be able to practice writing teen numbers with a candy cane pen
and playing with a decahedron die!

SMART Board fun: sequencing the teens.

Mr. Davis tied his language lesson this month into our science unit on wood. We read Carpenters by Joan Freese. Mr. Davis brought in some of the tools he uses when working with wood. The children were able to try these tools with both soft and hard wood. They loved the hands on lesson! Thank you Mr. Davis!