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Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Third Week in December


A little movement before the lesson.























Label the gingerbread man.

reading words


Looking carefully at the word and problem-solving.











Quiet Time choice on Monday.







Learning about a reindeer's diet.
Letter sound practice.


Accessing the word bank to label the reindeer.



















Math: DreamBox


Math: Pattern Lesson


Counting and cardinality




















Outdoor play



Mrs. McDermott demonstrates the breathing ball in SEL class.


Visualizing


I can do hard things.




















The children have been practicing the elements of good retelling with this version of The Gingerbread Man.  They made stick puppets to help with the retelling. 


Watch for these to come home in your child's reading journal bag.
You may need to read the story again before they do this practice work with you.













Handwriting: Diver Down Letter: lowercase p




Handwriting: Practicing in his handwriting book.


Handwriting: Words for Me & Sentence for Me


Color by number quiet time choice on Tuesday.

                      Eloise                                                                        Emilia

The children created these self-portraits in art class with Mrs. Johnston.
They tell me they read Jan Brett's The Hat.

          
                                       Charlie F.                                              Jonathan


Reading: Practicing pointer power reading his weather book.


Choice Time Drawing


Choice Time: Puzzles
The children completed this 100-piece puzzle a few times over.
They work on it a little at a time each day.


Cookies were delivered to the school by PCPA members!
🥰 Thank you! 🍪 


Outdoor Time: Playing soccer has been very popular.



Science: Weather Unit: Do you know your birthday season?
Many children are still learning to state their birthday, practice when you can.


Celebrating another birthday at the morning meeting!


Moving his tag down to age 6!

 🎈Happy 6th Birthday! 🧁


Special Activity: Enjoying The Snowman by Raymond Briggs.


Thanks for sending what is needed for playing on the playground!


We read this nice story about winter and then made beaded snowflakes as a craft activity.



Making beaded snowflakes for the Winter Solstice!

A special thank you to Riley's mom and Reed's mom for volunteering.
Every child was able to make at least one snowflake thanks to their help!








 






No two are alike!
















































December was a good month, a busy month.
Above is our ABB Pattern
Mitten, snowflake, snowflake. 


Thank you for all the notes and cards with such kind words!
Have a safe, healthy, and restful December Break!
Happy New Year!
🥳 See you in 2023! 🎉