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Sunday, January 12, 2025

First Full Week in January: January 6-10th


A choice at Quiet Time. 


Scholastic News
Science: Focusing on animal adaptions.


The children explored the winter adaptions of several animals.



Hibernators Dance Break


Hibernation Concentration
The children love playing concentration!


A Barn Owl emergent reader.


The life cycle of a barn owl.



Centers
Art Easel


Blocks
Building animal habitats.


a cat

A wolf in the woods.

Math
Addition
Ask your child about "Gus the Plus!"


Showing number sentences with magnetic dots.

Learning about sum (finding the total).


Math
K Goal: represent Addition to 10 (fingers, pictures, objects).


Creating Number Families
All the ways to make five today.


Recess
Animals


It has been cold outside, thanks for sending the clothes needed for outdoor time.



Making popcorn!


New Red Word


Stations
Red Work practice (my).


Stations
Reading with Mrs. Cornell an emergent reader.


Writing
Working on his owl report, owl bodies page, labeling.


Writing
Working on a sentence for her owl report, owl bodies.

Centers
Art Easel
Dry erase markers, drawing an owl.



Blocks
animal habitats


Dramatization
Role playing with the owl masks they made at the Art Table!
Owl and eagle puppets for storytelling and role playing!



proud of her owl drawing


Former students of mine, now Middle Schoolers, 
sharing with the children what they have learned about mindfulness.


The story they read to them. 


The children each illustrated a feeling.




They played Charades!




Math
Addition to 10 with colored bears.
Ask your child about "Ellie Equals!"





Giving number sentences a try as a group.

The children like it when we share the marker and they can record on our whiteboard.


Independent practice at the tables.

 addition to 5




Colored at Library.



Phonics
short a


reading CVC words

Writing
Owl Report



A wonderful read aloud.
It tells how the furry and feathered friends respond to a stranger in the woods.


Easel
owl


Centers
Art Table
A New Year Choice: Penguin Collage!


If your child made one of these we hung it on their locker.


Quiet Time Choice on Tuesday: snowmen with thin markers!

                                            Great Job!


Centers
Writing and Drawing


Proud of his Star Wars message!


Art Easel
T-Rex

 Centers
Discovery Table
Pattern block exploration.



Art Easel
Fruit on a table.


Discovery Table
a wolf

 Created together!

Centers
Writing and Drawing
An owl in the forest.


New red word.

Stations
Red work practice: (by)
K Goal: To read common high frequency words by sight.
When these worksheets come home ask your child to read the word to you.  
If it is tricky it would be beneficial to post the word at home on a sticky note for reading practice every now and then until mastered.


Morning Meeting
Share: Would you rather ...


Math
Our class is working to secure the tricky teens.
They are working to always put the one down first so they do not transpose the number.
They are working on using marking strategies for careful, accurate counting.
K Goals: 
Read and write the numbers 0-30.
Count 20 objects with accuracy.


Phonics
Reading the passage and looking for the red word (my) and circling it.


These passages come home weekly for you to practice if time allows.
Practicing would help build reading confidence and fluency.

 Stations
short a practice
Sort: at and an



Stations
Read the passage.
Write and draw something that fits you.


Handwriting
Diver Down Letter lowercase p




Diver Down Letter lowercase b.




Completing Words For Me and Sentence For Me in her handwriting book.


Competing his letter p page in his handwriting book.


On Thursday we read another of Carl R Sams 11 & Jean Stoick's great books!
We all enjoyed the wonderful photography about the change of seasons for animals in the woods.


He was willing to take a risk and follow the directions on How to draw a wolf!  First time giving it a try!


Ta Da! Well done!


Dramatization
Adding to our woodlands scene.


Proud of her owl contribution.

Centers
Writing and Drawing
A wolf in it's habitat!



Math
Playing Bump with a partner!


They did well with this game which can be tricky when your partner bumps you!


Using a pair of dice to practice addition to 12.










Phonics
Writing CVC words and changing the first or last letter to make a new word.






Independent work during Stations.


Working in his phonics book: word work.


Stations
short a CVC words



Say the word and listen for the sounds.  Record the middle and ending sound in each word.



Stations
Retelling The Gingerbread Man with their stick puppets.

                                                                                                    Stations
Practicing reading the red words in his reading bin.
The children have over twenty words now!

Friday we began reading this book.
We put the cover of the book up next to the wolf that was drawn, all were impressed!


Centers
Writing & Drawing a wolf!


Wow!
I hope more children give this a try next week.
We will continue learning about wolves.


Another wolf!




You may remember our Hopes and Dreams from September.
Three children wrote and drew about going on a field trip to The Children's Museum.
We have arranged that for February 7, 2025.
You can help by returning your child's permission slip and money.  
If you know your child will not be joining us, please email me,
 so that I can complete the tasks needed for those attending. Thank you! 💗

Next Week:
Tuesday: Gym (sneakers please) 
Friday: Library Book Exchange (colorful book bag and books please)

January is assessment time.
Some routines will be affected slightly as I gather current data.  
Progress Reports will be available at the end of this month. 

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