Monday, December 8

Happy Summer Birthday, Luna! (June 6)

Monday, December 8

Green Day: Library  

Library from 8:20-8:55.

Read Aloud: A Piece of Home  By: Jeri Watts

GENRE: Fiction

Connect and Teach: Character Clues
Introduce Power Words: brave, expect, ordinary

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Blending Onset and Rime, Counting Syllables

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant j
Irregular Words: all

WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Complete Sentences

Literacy Jobs

 Handwriting: Lowercase p
(Short Line Down Letters: r, n, m, i, j, p)

     KinderMath: About Number 11: Hide 10
We will look closely at how to build 11 the '10' way. Again, our goal is to help the kids see teen numbers as "10 and some more."

    

It's our 50th day of school...Zero the Hero will visit! 

Music Today 
   Social Studies: Holidays Around the World
Leading up to our holiday break, the kids will learn about customs and traditions of the holidays around the world. Today we will make our passports and suitcases to be ready for our first destination tomorrow: Mexico for Las Posadas. Each day the kids will make a project that represents the country's holiday/tradition and come home with a full suitcase when the final destination has been reached!

Growing a Candy Cane! 

The children will plant their own candy cane seed that will grow throughout the week. 
Magical ingredients...
~A Tic Tac imprinted with a candy cane placed in sugar.
~Planted in sugar with a dash of red sprinkles.

~Today is Gavin's last day with us. We sure will miss him!

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