Miss Ryan & Mrs. Ford's Kindergarten: Week of December 5th

Happy Friday!

We had a wonderful and joyous week here in K! The children did amazing at their Christmas Concert and they were very excited for all of you to watch them sing :) Our read alouds this week were Santa's Lost Reindeer and Turkey Claus!

In ELA this week we took our Unit 2 test and introduced Unit 3! Again, the students did such a great job listening, looking at their own paper, and staying quiet! We continued working through our phonics program reviewing the sounds & letters of b, t, f, m, n, i, u, o, c, a, g, d, s, e & r. We introduced two more consonants 'p' and 'j'. We continued working our way through & reviewing B! This was a busy week so many B puppets did not get finished, so I am sending them home with the popsicle sticks we use. These do not need to be finished and returned to school! We continued working through Chapter 4 in Math. This week we focused on the words fewest, most, and equalizing sets. We also identified and wrote 0, 1, 2, & 3! In Social Studies we grabbed our suitcases and travelled off to Italy and Mexico to see how they celebrate Christmas! We lit the second candle on our Advent wreath and spoke about peace! In Religion this week we also had our safe environment lesson and had a very important talk about safe touches, bad touches, and what to do if a stranger approaches us. The children took this talk very seriously and did great! In Art they painted clay candy canes!

Christmas in centers continued this week! In the Word Work Center the students read Christmas books and played sight word bingo. In the Art center the students created the baby Jesus and wrote the sentence "Oh Come Let Us Adore Him"! In the math center the students counted Christmas items and practiced writing numbers. In the discovery center we created "Snowman in a bag" which ended up turning out more like a melted snowman! Students read a book, played with Playdoh, or on the iPad in the free center!

Our elf Winter is a huge star in our room! This week Winter was found taking a bubble bath in our kitchen sink and sleeping in his pj's because he thought it was the weekend already! A few kindness tasks Winter gave us this week were: "Ask a friend to play", "Give a compliment", and "Speak kindly".