December Calendar and Newsletter

Learning Board

In our class we have a Learning Board.  Together, we list our Learning Goals, which we call "What we are learning" and what we need to do to be successful. This is sometimes called a Success Criteria in the older grades, but we call it our checklist with the heading "How do you know?"

As you can see, we have been learning about sorting in Math and questioning in Language. 

Please talk to your kids about all the things we've been learning at school!

Letter Sorting Game

A simple sorting game for letter/sound recognition that you could easily make at home. 

Painting

The class has suddenly become interested in how to make landscape paintings! We have watched a few videos online of how to paint nature scenes. In this picture you can see one of our students watching a video on the iPad while he attempts to make his own nature painting. What an amazing end result with that strong tree!

Poem/Homework - Week of November 21st

We have been learning how to properly form and ask questions. We play a game called "Mystery Bag" where one person hides something in the mystery bag while others must ask questions to figure out what the bag holds. This is a great game you can easily play at home too. It encourages questioning, listening, answering, giving details, etc. You can even switch the game to giving clues of what is in the bag to help develop descriptive language! Give it a try! 

Rockin' Robin

We will be performing in a concert on December 8th and we'll be singing Rockin' Robin! Here are the lyrics to practice at home. 

Remembrance Day Crafts