As the cold weather approaches, please label your child’s coat and remind your child to keep hats and gloves inside the sleeves when putting these items away.
Please remember that toys
(other than the weekly letter item) are to be kept at home.
Please practice independence with putting on, zippering and buttoning coats.
Please send in a small item that begins with “r” on
12/11 for our letter friend of the week.
Thank you for attending your child’s conference.
Communication between home and school is an integral ingredient in a successful school career for your child. We truly appreciate your support.
Next week, we will be r eviewing letter “R ”. The /r/ sound is a lifter, made by lifting the tongue in the back of the mouth. Be careful not to add an “uh” sound to the end. Please practice letter/sound recognition for “R”.
Wheel Activities :
The children are being introduced to the individual phonemes (speech sounds) in words. Children reviewed how each letter makes a sound and how these sounds grow up to be words when we put them together.
Math : Our upcoming unit is entitled Sorting and Classifying data. In this unit, children will learn how to sort and classify using a given attribute.
Social Studies : We have begun our unit on friendship.
We will learn what it means to be a friend and how friends one another.
use kind words and kind actions with
Bill
Ideas for how to use this book at home:
Children have begun learning about one to one correspondence when counting. They are learning how we use different symbols or words to represent a number; such as pictures, tally marks, the number as it is spelled or the written number. To reinforce this at home, read the book Ten
Black Dots and have your child use black pom-poms or construction paper dots to show each number. Then ask your child to create his or her own black dot picture with a given number of dots.
We will be starting our discussions about holiday celebrations, including
Hanukkah, Christmas and
Kwanzaa. Please review with your child some of your holiday family traditions so that he or she can be prepared to share these in class.