Take a peek at last week…

I will accept book orders until this Wednesday! Please remember to work on your child’s homework during the week, I only received a small few on Friday. This is important to do with your child to reinforce some of the things that we do in the classroom!

Morning Meeting:

Share- All children are continuing to share their favorite toy from the holidays.

Reading and Listening: 

            We read the following books:                               

            The Gingerbread Baby

            The Gingerbread Boy

            The Runaway Pickle

            The Runaway Latkes

?  Learning about the letter Jj

?  Guided reading-The Gingerbread Man

?  Word: you and review of and, see

Songs and Poems:

Alphabet Gingerbread Poem     Color Songs: Brown

Math Time:

?  Number recognition and writing from 20-50

?  Counting by ones, tens, and fives

?  Recognizing a dime

?  Simple addition in a small group with a teacher

Choice Centers:

• We completed our Gingerbread centers this week!

Writer’s Workshop:

The children wrote about a goal they have for the New Year!

This week:

• Gingerbread Activities: We still have a few more books for gingerbread, which we will complete this week. The children have a few sequencing activities to do as wellJ
• Science: We have begun our science unit which connects to how we are alike and different and our senses. This will be completed during our theme time for the next 2-3 weeks. We will begin to read some books about snow and snowmen at the end of this unit.
• Assessments: I will work on these in the classroom for the next 2 weeks, the end of the quarter is at the end of January.
• Letter: k
• Word: Reviewing all sight words with a silly snowball game!

                                                       Have a great week J