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Weekly Newletter

December 9 - 13th

Important Dates

  • -December 3rd-13th- iReady Testing 
  • -December 9th- DIBELS Testing
  • Kindergarten Christmas Theme Days:
  • -December 13th- Holiday Sock Day(uniforms)
  • -December 16th- Holiday Headband/Hat Day(uniforms)
  • -December 17th- Grinch Day (wear green or grinch/who attire)
  • -December 18th- PJ/Polar Express Day(pjs, no uniforms)
  • -December 19th- Holiday Dress and party(no uniforms)
  • We will be having a cozy sock exchange during our party.  Please send in a wrapped pair of cozy socks(gender neutral) on or before our party date.
  • December 20th- Teacher Work Day No School
  • December 20th -January 6th- Winter Break/No School

CKLA

Skills: Students will demonstrate knowledge of letter-sound correspondence and orally blend sound to form single-syllable words. Students will recognize and name the lowercase letters of the alphabet. They will track print from top to bottom, left to right; will attend to capital letters and punctuation as sentence indicators; and will read some sentence aloud. They will also answer questions about characters, setting and main event.

Tricky word: I

I will be sending their Skills book home in Thursday folders. If there are pages that haven't been completed, these are a great review/practice for your student.

Math: Students will review numbers 0-20 by ordering and identifying numbers that come before, after and between, as well as matching numbers. Students will identify a measuring cup and follow a recipe. They will also identify full, half full and empty using measuring cups. We are also learning to count by 5's. Please be practicing this skill with your student. We are learning to count nickels as we have mastered counting pennies and dimes.


History: Let’s Explore Our World- Continents

Sight Words

I, can, the, we, see, a, like, did, it, to, will, run, and, in, find, go, under, eat, you, do, down, say, big, one, that, look, two, three

Core Knowledge/Geography

The Seven Continents

Let’s Explore Our World- Continents The Big Idea: Earth is divided into seven continents, each of which has distinguishing plants, animals, and structures.

The student will be able to name and locate the seven continents.

The student will know familiar associations with each continents

Vocabulary: continent, island, landmass, peninsula, rainforest, savanna, steppe, structure, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia

 

December’s Monthly Sayings:

“Where there is a will there's a way.”

December’s Character trait

December- Compassion, empathy in action