Crafts are being rotated, our Grinch G's have been moved to the hallway and letter Q's will come home with your child this week in their backpack. Their letter S craft they make this week will hang in the classroom for them to see as they are completed! We will also make some snowmen this week for winter decor and for the letter S!
LETTER S, RECTANGLE, PURPLE, & NUMBER 6 December 11th-15th
- CALENDAR-This week we will be focusing on the letter S, Rectangle, the number 6, and the color purple. Our friend Serena Seahorse helps us learn letter S's name & sound. This week, students will come home with a letter S written on their right hand with a grape scented purple marker. This helps them know their right hand for flag salute and reinforces the letter they are learning. We also have been singing several letter S songs and a number 6 song that you can find below.
- PHONICS-This week along with the other phonics skills we continue to work on like rhyming, listening for beginning & ending sounds, blending onset & rimes we hear into whole words, and separating words we hear into onset & rime, we are learning, "Three Blind Mice".
- CIRCLE TIME-This week for our social skills activities we we will talk about the 12 Guiding Principles Word of the Week, "Initiative". This week we are also continuing Rotations during circle time where students are split into three groups and do a letter review activity with Mrs. Schuler, a number writing and math activity with Mrs. McCoy, or a letter app on iPads. Students do one of the activities per day for 3 days so that every group gets to do each one.
- PRE-READING/WRITING-This week we will learn to build letter S with our wood pieces as well as write them on chalkboards. We will trace and color on our purple page this week, as well as trace the letter S. We will cut out purple rectangles to strengthen our hands and reinforce our shape and color. We will also make a letter S craft with Snowflakes on it and Silver glitter. This craft will work on our fine motor skills as we glue the snowflakes and math skills as we practice making a pattern, name colors, and count how many snowflakes we glue on. A letter craft will continue to come home each week as we rotate them out of display here at school. These are great review for students as they learn their letters so if you want an easy way to keep them they could be 3-hole punched and put into a binder to make a letter craft book. Students will also color and bring home a Serena Seahorse book this week that is also great review for letter S. If you save their letter books they will have a whole alphabet book library for review over summer for Kindergarten!
- MATH-Math is imbedded daily into activities that we do. Our calendar time involves learning our colors, shapes, and counting and learning our written numerals. While playing during centers, teachers interact with students and encourage counting, sorting, and comparing sizes and shapes. Students also do a math activity and focus on the number of the week during their math rotation at circle time and do other various activities to build different math skills.
Below is a playlist of letter S songs. You should see 3 bars in the corner. If you click the bars it should show you a menu of all the songs.
Below is a playlist of number 6 songs. You should see 3 bars in the corner. If you click the bars it should show you a menu of all the songs.