Happy December!

 Welcome Back, Everyone!

It has been a wonderful week back here at school! The kids settled back into their routines and have had a great week of being kind, working hard and having fun! We watched a great little clip called “Caine’s Arcade”. The kids are ready for some cardboard on Monday, I can assure you!

The kids have done a super job getting used to our routines about getting ready to go outside. They are getting quicker and quicker getting their stuff on and making sure their clothes are hung up to dry when they come inside from recess. Getting more independent with these tasks is necessary to ensure as much time outside as possible! We have suggested to kids to get a stopwatch and practice at home getting dressed on their own to see how fast they can go!

We introduced some new words this week: love, and, and is. They are doing a super job picking up on their new words and reading them in some of our beginner reading books. We are also practicing writing these words using magnet letters. They are doing a super job! We also read a couple of great books, Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins and Lots of Latkes. 

We will be starting literacy stations over the next couple of weeks. Stations will include reading, letter writing, sound practice, online platform practice using iRead and word building and sorting. We will also be extending our math station options by including a station to practice skills using the online platform iReady. Both of these are endorsed by our district as acceptable learning tools. 

We know screen time is a sensitive subject for some families and we are sensitive to it as well. Stations run 15 or so minutes for both literacy and math, meaning that your child’s screen time will be spread out over up to two times during the day totalling roughly 30 minutes. Sometimes kids will only get one, other days they will have none. 

Next week we will be working on our math number books. Kids will be working on writing numbers, writing number words, drawing pictures and filling in tens-frames on their numbers 1-10. In math time we worked on dot clusters, making the number 10, counting to 20 and back by ones, counting to 100 by tens and using connecting cubes to build numbers. 

We hope everything is going well with you all, please let us know if you need anything, have any questions or want to chat. 

Have a great weekend,

Ben and Honi

Important Updates:

• Picture retakes are next week on December 8th

• Drop-off is now be at the front door. We think our kindergarteners are ready to walk in with the big kids! Pickup will still be out of our back door. If your child is able to independently buckle, please let us know if you’d like your child picked up at the pick-up circle instead.

Conversation starters:

 

*How did sledding go on the hill?

*What did Hershel do to trick the Goblin King?

*Who is at your table group?

*Try "partner counting" with your student (you say 1, they say 2, you say 3, they say 4....).

*What are latkes made of?

*Look at the new photos in our photo album. They are great conversation starters!

Other Reminders

Class Blog

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Pictures

The folder with class pictures can be found here. 

Class Gear

Please remember to send in all the tools for the kiddos to be using as we go through the year (change of clothes, raingear, camp chair, etc.). Sneakers are the best daily footwear for students. If you need help getting any of those, please let us know, the school will be happy to help.

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