Week of December 12-16

Dear families,

I hope you are having a nice weekend!

Last week we did a lot of counting! We counted holiday and winter items, and classroom objects. We talked about how to count: to say the number; arrange the items in a line or in groups of 10; point to the items; take the items away from the group as they are counted. The children also did a worksheet in which they counted the holiday objects and drew a line to the correct number and wrote the number. JKs did 1-1, SKs 1-20.

With their Reading Buddies, the children read, drew and wrote holiday words to make a holiday word wall.

At our Sharing Assembly on Thursday, we will be wearing holiday hats. They are available at the dollar store if you don't have one. We will perform a poem about elves! I hope to see you there! We will also have our Holiday Craft Party on Thursday afternoon!

I have sent home Journals for the JKs. In the journal is a list of sight words. The children are encouraged to draw pictures and write a few words about their picture.

The homework for this week is to complete the LIKE and CAN sight word sheets.

We also made an "Elf's To Do List" and the children wrote their own too. They have finished their elf art and this will go home on Friday, along with their other holiday work. We also did a Candy Cane Investigation! The children ate different flavours of candy cane and wrote about that.

On the Smartboard we learned about Holidays around the world and how to say, "Merry Christmas" in different languages. Next week we will learn about Hannukah, Eid and Kwanzaa.

The children loved watching the rehearsal of The Pirates of Pinantaville, made candy cane reindeer, made a special present for you, and got a letter back from Santa! They also compared and contrasted How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Pete the Cat Saves Christmas. Thank you to Michai's family for donating the Pete the Cat book to our Classroom! Thank you also to Elea's mom who helped out with Pizza Lunch, to Catherine for sharing a Christmas book, and Alex's dad for being Mystery Reader!

That's our news for the week. If your child will be absent on Friday please send in a note so that we can prepare his/her mail bag in advance.

I hope you have a wonderful week, the last one before the holidays!