Week of Nov. 30-Dec. 3

I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving holiday! Grandparent's Day last week was wonderful! The kids worked so hard on the show and I know that this was a memory that will stick with them when they think back on their days in kindergarten.

Please continue to send in check boxes for our holiday craft coming up! I know that we will need extras for kids that may not get any in.

This week in the classroom, we continued to look at word families by completing an -op family book. All the groups are working on decoding words using different reading strategies. Kids are learning how to use the picture cues, put sounds to every letter (sound and say), and to chunk large words into smaller. In math we worked on probability by reading the book And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street then discussing what is impossible, what is certain, and what might happen. In writing, we continue to work on spaces between words and end marks at the end of a sentence. Be sure to reinforce this at home as kids write. I've noticed a lot of periods put after names and at the end of lines, even if it isn't a sentence. So help me catch this and explain why both things are not a sentence! In Fundations, we are starting three letters a week as we finish up the alphabet. This week we did l, k, and h and wrote about topics that started with these letters like, "lollypop," "kangaroo," and "horse."