December 10th-14th

Congratulations to our December Leader of the Month, Kenzie!

Run, run as fast as you can, You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!! Who doesn’t love delicious gingerbread cookies!  This week was all about gingerbread as we read Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone. We also read different versions of Gingerbread stories by different authors. We will do the same thing later on in the year with other fairy tales.

Vocabulary from the book:

• sniff: to take in short breaths of air through the nose
• threshing: separating the grain or seeds
• field: a wide area of open land
• strut: to walk in proud of vain manner
• dared: to be careless enough to do something

Here are just a few activities you can do at home with your child this weekend:

• Make gingerbread cookies.
• Decorate a gingerbread house together.
• Reenact the story.
• Decorate a gingerbread made out of construction paper.  Use other items to decorate it such as googly eyes, buttons, etc.

We've had a lot of sick kiddos this month. The picture below is just a reminder:

We are in need of prize box donations. It doesn't have to be anything expensive. If you're out and about and pass by Target or Dollar Tree and pick up a pack of dollar items that would be great. Just send them in for our prize box! It can be a pack of fun pencils, erasers, stickers, etc ... The students work hard on good behavior and earn stickers to visit the prize box. 

After Christmas break, Mrs. Matyus and I will would like to no longer tie shoe laces 😊It is also a kindergarten award at the end of the year for those who learn to tie their shoes. So start practicing! 

Also, if awards do not change for the end of the year here they are:

• Count to 100 by 1s, 5s and 10s
• Read all 100 sight words
• Tie shoes 

This unit is all about comparing numbers to 10 with mathematical vocabulary as well as comparing and ordering objects according to their measurable attributes.

Vocabulary for this unit:

-count: students will be able to state numbers in a sequence 0-10

-compare: students will be able to compare objects/numbers by stating which is greater than, less than or equal

-quantity: students will be able to count a set of objects and state how many are there

-length: students will be able to tell how long something is and compare their length – taller, shorter. same

-height: students will be able to tell how tall something is and compare their height by tallest, shortest, same

-weight: students will be able to tell how much something weighs and compare – heavier, lighter, same

-capacity: students will be able to tell how much something holds and compare – holds more, less or the same

Also in this quarter:

-Counting to 100

-Writing numbers to 20

-Counting objects to 20 in a line, circle and array and up to 10 objects scattered

-Continuing to Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers in each category and sort the categories by count.

**When you see the phrase "math drawing" in the homework that means to use circles to represent a quantity.**

• Examine the characteristics of day and night sky and how one changes into the other in a 24 hour cycle. 

• Focus on the simple changes from night to day and day to night, as well as the main objects in the sky – the sun and moon. 

• Understand that things move in different ways and that gravity affects objects. 

Quarter 2 Social Studies:

• Recognize who Veterans are and why we celebrate them on Veterans Day.

• Identify the bald eagle as an American Symbol.

• Explain positive character traits of veterans.

• Learn how American culture celebrates Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day and how others celebrate in their cultures.

• Students will be introduced to historical events and figures within a given holiday.

• Students will learn about needs and wants.

Thank you to the families that are doing the homework! We appreciate the support from home! 

Second Quarter standards to reinforce at during homework time:

 

• The students should be writing their own homework at this point in the homework notebook. Use pencil unless it says otherwise.
• Please encourage proper letter formation (letters touching the right lines and only using uppercase letters for names and at the beginning of a sentence). 
• Do more than one days worth of homework on a page and try not to skip pages. 

For the 2nd Quarter report card the students will need to:

·       Identify all upper case and lower case letters

·       Produce 23 or more consonant sounds

·       Produce 3 out of 5 short vowel sounds

·       Know 25 or more sight words ((we've taught 45 so far))

·       Recognize rhyming word pairs

·       Properly print 23 out of 52 letters

·       Write letters for most consonants and short vowels

·       Recognize and name ending punctuation ( . ! ?)

·       Compose a piece of writing with simple sentences that includes sight words and phonetically spelled words.

Letters and Sight Words of the Week 2018-2019

Date	Letter/Blend/Digraph	Sight Words
August 1	FIRST WEEK
August 6
August 13		I, it, is
August 20		a, as, do
August 27	M and short A	am, and, an
September 4	S	so, see, me
September 10	T	to, the, my
September 17	N	not, on, no
September 24	FALL BREAK
October 1	Short I	at, in, will
October 8	F	he, she, we
October 15	P and Short O	said, saw, was
October 22	C (hard and soft)	can, came, come
October 29	H	his, help, her
November 5	B	big, by, be
November 12	Short U	but, up, us
November 19	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
November 26	R	ran, run, him
December 3	Short E	when, then, well
December 10	G (hard and soft)	go, give, get
December 17	D	did, had, has
January 7	W/Wh	what, were
January 14	L	like, let, look
January 22	J	put, out, now
January 28	K	must, into, all
February 4	Y	your, you, yes
February 11	V/Z	very, love, of
February 18	FEBRUARY BREAK
February 25	Q	want, went, who
March 4	X	little, have, with
March 11	Bossy R (ar, or, ir, ur, er)	are, for, from
March 18	Long A	ate, make, say
March 25	Long E	please, eat, here
April 1	APRIL BREAK
April 8	Long I	find, fly, why
April 15	Long O	home, going, this
April 22	Long U	new, some, they
April 29	OO	soon, good, too
May 6	OU/OW	down, our, how
May 13	Sh,Th,Ch	there, where
May 20	LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL

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