Dear Parents and Guardians,
We will be starting a unit on December holidays this week. We will take a look at Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanza. The Kindergarteners will also get a chance to write letters to Santa Claus.
We just started our guided reading program a few weeks ago. Your children should be coming home with a book at least once a week from now on until the end of the year. Each time your child comes home with a book, we will be focusing on a reading strategy. This strategy may be the same for a few weeks until the strategy is mastered. So far, the students have learned about Eagle Eye. Eagle Eye taught the students to use the pictures to figure out tricky words in the book. As the students learn more reading strategies, you should start to see your child using all of these strategies to read the book.
In math we are working hard to be able to count to 100 by tens and ones. We are also working on being able to recognize, name, and write numbers. We have been trying to remember what our numbers begin with to help us (teen numbers start with a one, 20's with a two, 30's with a three, 40's with a four, 50's with a five etc.)
The Kindergarteners have been working very hard during music. This week on December 5th the students will be participating in the Winter Music Concert. I hope to see everyone there!
Sincerely,
Miss Knauer
