Week of December 17-21

Dear families,

I think December 25 is tied with birthdays in terms of how excited the children get! This has been a fun week, and the kiddos did a lot of learning while having fun:

Literacy:
The Letter sound of the week was Uu. The sight words of the week were BIG and RUN. After watching "How the Grinch Stole CHrtistmas," we used a Venn diagram to compare the Grinch and Santa; we also uncovered hidden sight words from "magic" Christmas lights, wrote how we would get Santa out of the chimney if he got stuck, finished our Littler Elf booklets with our reading buddies, read and coloured a non-fiction booklet about reindeer, did our "This is me in December" writing and drawing, and the SKs did some beginning letter sound exercises.

Numeracy:
We did a candy cane flavour graph, the SKs wrote which number came next in a sequence, the JKs and SKs did a number dot-to-dot exercise, and all the kids did their December calendars.

Art:
The children cut and glued Santa "stuck in the chimney," made Star of David and reindeer ornaments, and made several crafts during our Holiday Craft Party (thank you to the moms of Anilee, Dante, Ella, Evelyn and Reina!

Science:
We are starting to learn about snowflakes.

Music:
The children performed three songs and one poem at our Kindergarten Holiday Concert and Santa made a surprise visit!

Thank you to our Mystery Reader Yara (Reina's sister)! Thank you as well to Monty's family who will be taking care of Bubbles the Beta Fish over the holidays!

Thank you so much for the thoughtful and generous Christmas gifts! I am so happy to be your child's teacher and wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2019!

Mrs. Tyndall