Season's Greetings!

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukah or something else at this time of year, we hope you liked the adorable pine trees your children made for you! Happy holidays! 🌲🌲

Happy Holidays!

We hope you all have a wonderful holiday and a fantastic new year! See you in 2017! 

End of Year Reminders

I meant to send this note home at the beginning of the week, but it didn't make! So it will come home in the Friday File with your January Calendar. 

Winter Break Challenge

Hello Families! Just as an FYI we will not be sending home the yellow homework folders or home reading books over the break. However, if you would like some fun activities to do over the break please try our Winter Break Challenges! You will find these challenge sheets in your child's green folder this Friday. 

Wonder Wall

This is our "Wonder Wall"!

Kids are naturally inquisitive, but most don't know how to formulate questions yet, so we start with the basics and teach the children how to ask a question. 

We started by playing "Mystery Bag" where I hide something in a bag and the children must ask questions in order to figure out what is in the bag. Once they get the hang of that we allow the students to take turns putting things in the bag while the rest of the class guesses. You should try this at home!

After this, we move on to showing the class interesting pictures for them to start wondering about. We like to start off with pop-culture pictures so they have a frame of reference of where to start. We first talk about things that we already know and what we can see. From there we start to formulate questions about what we wonder and what we would like to find out.  We do this as a large group lesson many times before getting to the point where students can formulate questions on their own. 

It's a long process, but we can already see a huge improvement in the way students ask questions! 

Poem/Homework week of December 12th

Still working on the letter D and learning the word "day". 

Concert

Congratulations to the students in our class on a great performance at the concert last night! The audience loved your version of Rockin' Robin! 

Homework/Poem - Week of December 5th

We have been learning the letter D this week for the start of December!