A Peek at Dec 14-18

Good morning Huard Huddle families!


I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. We are down to 7 1/2 days of school before our break. I am not sure where the time has gone but it seems to be going by faster and faster each year! 

Reminders;

Tree Decorating: This is not necessarily a Christmas tree. We are decorating Evergreen trees because we will be studying them this week. Please send in 1 container of white frosting and 1 small individual bag of M & M's. THANK YOU!

Dec 23: Early Release! Children will be dismissed at 11:15
 
Box tops: if you have any please send them in!

Report Cards: they go home this week. Please sign and return the envelope only. You can keep the report card for your records. Any questions please don't hesitate to ask.

SPIRIT WEEK: next week is Weston's SPIRIT week. We have some fun themes planned: 
Monday: Crazy Hat or Hair day
Tuesday: Weston BLUE day
Wednesday: PJ Day!

  Last week and this week we have be working on many different standards through the different Gingerbread Man stories. We have read and will continue to read;

 

Gingerbread Baby

Gingerbread Boy

Gingerbread Man

Gingerbread Girl

Gingerbread Girl Goes Animal Crackers

Gingerbread Friends

Gingerbread Cowboy

Gingerbread Pirates!

Gingerbread Man Loose in School

 

                              

 

We are focusing on sequencing stories, identifying characters, setting, problem and solution. We will look at how the stories we read and the stories we write all have a beginning, middle and end.  We will respond to books we've heard in our Reading Response Logs.  After hearing many different versions of the Gingerbread stories we will use a VENN diagram to compare and contrast different stories! 

 

Friday we baked our own Gingerbread Man but he has since escaped and is Loose in Weston School! We have been given many clues but can't seem to catch him! 

 

Fundations: Letters P, pan, /p/ and J, jug /j/

Sight Word Reader: Go In

Sight Words: review week 

 

Math: Last week we introduced our new unit of 2D and 3D shapes! We focused on 2D shapes; 

 

 

 

The children have learned about sides and vertices (corners)! They can compare the shapes and find shapes in their environment! Great job! We continue to practice counting to 100 by 1's and 10's daily. Please check in with your child and practice at home!

 

 

Our student of the week last week was SOFIE! Your friends in the Huard Huddle are proud of you!

 

 

 

A Look at Nov 30- Dec 4

Hello Huard Huddle Families!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I know I enjoyed the long weekend with my family! I am looking forward to seeing all my little, smiling, kinders though!  I can't believe we will be moving into DECEMBER already!!!

What a magical time of the year- especially when you are surrounded by children!!

 If you have a special holiday that your family celebrates this season, please let me know,
we'd LOVE for you to come in and teach us about it. Thank YOU!

 

Our Turkey Trot was a huge success! Thank you to all the families who donated items! I tried loading pictures last week but I was unsuccessful. Let's see if it works this time...

A big thank you to Corinne's mom, Nicholas's mom and Chance's mom for walking with us!

Readers Workshop:
This week we will continue reading personal narratives and other stories that help us understand illustrations more.

BOOKS WE WILL READ AND SKILLS TO DISCUSS:

Knuffle Bunny: We will use this story to help us see movement in illustrations, facial expression, character and setting, beginning, middle and end of stories)
Knuffle Bunny Too: boxed off pictures, examples of how the pictures give us more information than the words)
Knuffle Bunny Free
The Paperboy: boxed off pictures, passage of time, clothing, character, setting

These are great stories and the Knuffle Bunny is available in our monthly book orders!
                       


Letters this week:  E, Ed, /e/ and U, up, /u/
Sight Words: you, all, of
Sight Word Reader: Can You See?



Writing:
Lesson 1: Personal Narrative
Lesson 2: Telling stories in illustrations (we will apply the skills we learned during readers workshop into our own personal narratives)
Lesson 3: Drawing even hard to make ideas
Lesson 4: Carrying on as Independent Writers

MATH: This week we will focus on comparing numbers with Rekenreks and hands on games as well as review number writing. We will continue with our estimation and weekly graphing question.

Rekenreks
Monster squeeze
Top It!

 
The rekenrek, or arithmetic rack, was designed by Adrian Treffers, a mathematics curriculum researcher at the Freudenthal Institute in Holland, to support the natural development of number sense in children.
Smaller versions consist of two rows of 10 beads. Larger versions with ten rows of ten beads are also available. Each row is made of five red beads and five white beads. This allows students to make mental images of numbers. Using 5 and 10 as anchors for counting, adding and subtracting is obviously more efficient than one-by-one counting. This tool provides learners with the visual models they need to discover number relationships and develop a variety of addition and subtraction strategies, including doubles plus or minus one, making tens, and compensation, thereby leading to automaticity of basic facts.

We loved our play our few weeks ago! Here are some pictures from that wonderful field trip!

A BIG thank you to all the families who donated items for our FIFTIES party! The boys and girls had such a fun time celebrating this special day! These fun activities wouldn't be possible with your support. So the kids and I thank you!

 Do you like root beer floats?? Thumbs up if you do! Thumbs down if not!

 

Nicholas is our star student this week. Your friends in the Huard Huddle are proud of you!

 

A Peek at 11/16-11/20

Good Morning Huard Huddle Families!

Reminders:

• Field Trip Monday! We will enjoy the musical performance of Click Clack Moo!
• If you have Tiny Owl gift card fundraisers please send them in!

                                                    

• Our FIFTIES celebration is Friday! This is such an exciting time. I love to see how they all come in dressed for our 50th day celebration! Please see the notice that was sent home on Friday!  We have cups, spoons and gum! (THANK YOU OLIVIA'S FAMILY)
• Our Thanksgiving Play will be Wednesday November 25th at 2:00 in our classroom. It is very short and the children may be dismissed afterwards. 
• Turkey Trot is Wednesday! Dress appropriately! Kindergarten students are asked to bring in NONPERISHABLE dinner rolls, bread or muffin mix

                

MATH: This week we will continue our exploration of numbers 0-10 using games like SHAKE AND SPILL as well as an important math tool the REKENREK!

The rekenrek, or arithmetic rack, was designed by Adrian Treffers, a mathematics curriculum researcher at the Freudenthal Institute in Holland, to support the natural development of number sense in children.
Smaller versions consist of two rows of 10 beads. Larger versions with ten rows of ten beads are also available. Each row is made of five red beads and five white beads. This allows students to make mental images of numbers. Using 5 and 10 as anchors for counting, adding and subtracting is obviously more efficient than one-by-one counting. This tool provides learners with the visual models they need to discover number relationships and develop a variety of addition and subtraction strategies, including doubles plus or minus one, making tens, and compensation, thereby leading to automaticity of basic facts. 

 

Reading: This week we will be enjoying many Thanksgiving themed picture books as well as some non-fiction literature. 

Letters; D, dog, /d/, S, snake, /s/

Sight Words: on

Sight Word Reader: They Are On  (we were not able to introduce the story on Monday but it did go home. So your child may need some help with it if you read it MONDAY night. )

Writing: 

Lesson 25 Sharing your writing with a friend

Lesson 26 Responding to Writing

Lesson 27 Publishing your writing

 

Our star of the week this week is Bidhyan! Your friends in the Huard Huddle are so proud of you!

We will not have a star next week due to the short week!