Weekly Newsletter- December 13-17

Dear Families

Wow!  Our month is just flying by!

This week we worked on the word families -et and -ed.  We sorted, read, and made words with these word families.  Check out your child's Seesaw to see these activities!  We also learned the sight words "was" and "are." We reviewed these words in the stories, poems, and writing we did this week.  We continue to review all words and assess through the year! Please continue to work on these words with your child.

This week, we worked on two gingerbread stories.  Our first story was  The Gingerbread Man, retold by Jim Aylesworth.   While listening to the story, students were working on visualizing, retelling, problem/solution, character traits, and stating their opinion.  The children really loved it when the Gingerbread Man popped out of the oven and surprised the Old Man and Old Woman.

Our other gingerbread story was The story this week was The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst.  While listening to the story, students were working on the strategies of making predictions, retelling, answering questions, and stating their opinion.  The children really loved it when the Gingerbread Girl tamed the tricky fox.

This week, our poem was called Gingerbread Man.  Ask your kindergartner to sing it to you!   We looked at rhyming words, looked for star words, and identified the three animals chasing the gingerbread man.  

We continued our love of gingerbread men by labeling a large gingerbread man during community writing.  Students labeled the face, icing, buttons, and body.  During reading around the room, students can go and read these words.  We made our own gingerbread men to add to our labels.  

In writing, we are finishing up our work on our narrative stories.  We remembered to add a capital letter to start our sentences and add a period to the end of our sentences.  We are also able to add some color to our stories. 

Reminders:

1. Tomorrow, students can wear their favorite holiday headband or hat.  Think Santa hats, reindeer antlers, elf ears, etc. 

2. Tomorrow is decorating gingerbread houses day!  We are starting to decorate our houses at 3:00pm.  

Thank you for all of your support!