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We had a very busy and exciting week in KD! Here are some of the very important things we learned...
Our theme this week continued to focus on stories by Jan Brett. We even had a visit from a sneaky visitor, the Gingerbread Baby! More to come next week!
We incorporated some fun gingerbread activities into our literacy centers. This week's centers included writing prompts and activities that focused on The Hat and The Mitten, finding and writing gingerbread power words, digraph games, and more!
We learned about digraphs (ch, sh, th, wh) during Phonics. We talked about about how even though a digraph has two letters, it only makes one sound. We did a lot of reading and writing with digraphs. Ask your child to teach you! We also worked on more uppercase letters, middle sounds, and sentence structure.
We continued working on visualizing and retelling during Reading. We learned the new vocabulary words: pleasant, unpleasant, crowded, and uncrowded. We talked about suffixes (un-) and antonyms (opposites).
In Writing, we worked on adding more details to our stories. We asked and answered questions with our partners to help us brainstorm more ideas for our writing.
During Math, we worked on building shapes with other shapes. We will finish up our unit on flat and solid (2D and 3D) shapes next week. Ask your child to identify the following shapes: circle, rectangle, square, triangle, hexagon, cube, cone, pyramid, sphere, and cylinder.
In this week’s Second Steps lesson, we learned that a kind act is something we can do to help someone feel good. We practiced suggesting kind acts to do for people in different scenarios. Encourage your child to think of a kind act they could do for someone, for example a sibling, grandparent, or neighbor.
Looking ahead...
Holiday Happiness Drive ends 12/18
Home 2 Home Orphanage supplies due 12/18 (Thank you SO much for your generosity and support!)
Winter Party 12/20
Early Release Day 12/20
Winter Break 12/21-1/3
School Resumes 1/4
Sorry, not many pics this week! There will not be a newsletter next week but I will add pics!
Have a great weekend. STAY HEALTHY!
Jena
