Dear Parents of Kindergarten Students,
Our next unit will take us through the month of December. The story of the Gingerbread Man will kick off the unit. We will be reading many different versions of the book and discussing a variety of topics including character comparisons, and illustration and author differences between story versions. Sharing an afternoon with you as we decorate gingerbread houses will be a highlight of this unit. We will include several writing and reading activities telling of the joys of the holiday season. By incorporating science experiments throughout the unit, we will discover that our five senses help us enjoy the season. Reading the Polar Express will conclude our theme for the month.
December 12th is “Make a Gingerbread House” day. I am excited about it and so are the children! We need seven more ice cream pails. Each child will need a can of vanilla frosting. If you can donate two decorating goodies it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your generosity! Please remember to return the slip stating if you or a guest are able to come to our gingerbread house decorating party or if we need to find a person to help your child make their house. We want each child to have a special friend beside them to create this special memory.
We will be having a gift exchange at our holiday party on December 19th. Boys should bring a gift for a boy and girls should bring a gift for a girl. The cost of the gift should be no more than $2.50. Please label the gift, “For a Girl” or “For a Boy”. Remind your child to bring the gift to me - not to a child. Please note that the children will be dismissed at 12:30 on this date. We will have a faculty workshop in the afternoon.
We will be working on recognizing numbers up to 31, counting to 110, counting by 10’s and 5’s, and adding and subtracting through stories. A literacy goal is to recognize and read color words using guided reading stories. We will identify the last sound in words, learn how to make new words by changing the beginning letter of words, continue to practice high frequency words, print our first and last name accurately, and improve our reading and writing skills.
This month will fly by. Before we know it, it will be January 2009!
Julie Duberowski
