Week of January 30

Hello everyone,

Sorry for the late posting for the week. It snuck up on me!! But rest assured, we've been busy, busy, busy in the classroom!

On Monday, we began the letter "M". The students were so great and really had their thinking caps on. We had so many great responses from the them about words that begin with M. From "Mario" to "Mountains", the kids were really on the ball!! We completed our dot painting activity.

On Wednesday, we will celebrate Groundhog day. We will make a cute craft and talk about how the groundhog sees his shadow. We will talk about the coming of spring and if we can make the classroom dark enough, we will make our own shadows on the wall.

On Friday, we will cook "Monkey Bread". It is a recipe of little dough balls rolled in butter, cinnamon and sugar and then baked all together. The result is a bread that everyone pulls apart and enjoys together. Yummy!
Thanks very much to Dusty for volunteering to bring in some ingredients for our cooking this week. It is very much appreciated! If you would like to ever donate any cooking supplies, please see me and I will let you know what we need!

A few reminders:
Sign up for conferences in in the hallway outside of my door.

Also, don't forget our valentine card project. The sooner we get some cards, the sooner we can start playing mail delivery!!

Finally, I am looking for 3 boxes of rigatoni or ziti pasta for letter N week. If you would be willing to donate a box, please let me know!

On a non-school realted note, there is a sign up sheet outside my door for girl scout cookies. My daughter is selling them. If you would like any, please feel free to sign up on the order form. Thanks for your support.

Have a great week. Again, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to call or e-mail me!

Week of 1/23

Hello,

This week, we will continue the letter "L".
Monday: we will review the letter and sound it makes. Children will make a lion craft to correlate to the curriculum buddy.

Wednesday: L is for leaf. We will sort paper leaves into colored baskets.

Friday: cooking for the letter "L"

All the while, we also will be discussing winter and snow. We will read A Snowy Day and have a pretend snowball fight in the classroom. We will talk about hibernation.
Any questions at all, please let me know.

Week of January 9

This week's letter is letter "K"
Monday: dot painting letter activity will enforce letter recognition

Wednesday: math focus. snowflake counting activity, snowman counting activity

Friday: cooking Friday for letter "k"

Parents: please do not send gloves with your child if they cannot put them on themselves. There are 12 coats, hats, and scarves to put on and we appreciate any time saver. Mittens are perfect.
Also, please practice name writing with your child. We are working on it everyday, but practice makes perfect. We are only using capital letters at this point.

Happy New Year

Hello families, I hope everyone had an enjoyable break. I know I did. Thank you for all of the wonderful gifts. They were so thoughtful.

This week we will talk about winter and snow. We will talk about hibernation. We will read a Snowy Day and have a pretend snowball fight. We will also do some carpet ice skating. All of these things will help the kids get excited for winter.
We are going to learn a silly song about snowflakes. Ask your child to sing it to you.

A note about winter dress: please please label gloves, hats, mittens, etc.. It will be so helpful to us.