Merry Christmas from Jolly Old England! The students are having fun going to the different classrooms and learning about how other countries celebrate the Christmas Holiday. K - 5 learned all about England today. Ask them what the children in England do after they write Father Christmas a letter!

We all sat around the fireplace in our classroom and learned about England's traditions. Then the students made stocking! Glitter was everywhere! Fun, fun, fun! Ms. Rasicot hung the stocking by the fireplace with care, in hope that Father Christmas soon will be here!

K -5 Parents,
Next week (Dec. 14-18th) the students will be taking their "passports" and traveling around the world (actually just next door to the other kindergarten classrooms) and learning from the other kindergarten teachers about holidays around the world. The students will rotate through the different countries. They will learn how England, Germany, Holland, Israel, Japan, Mexico and Sweden celebrate the holiday season. The students love learning about other cultures and they will get to see a different classroom each day.

Here are the students hard at work in their stations!

I hope everyone stayed warm this weekend. Winter is here!
Our theme is "On the Farm"
This week K - 5 will be learning the letters Gg and Ff.
Our sight words are: here and this
We will be using the vocabulary words anxious, huddle, moans, productive, idle and scrumptious as much as we can. The students hear their vocabulary words in each week's big books and library books. We go over each word and I am amazed at how the class remembers the words meanings. K - 5 does a great job on their vocabulary words!

We will be working in our stations/centers this week. The students are learning how to work independently. Once the students can work independently, I can work with small groups of students who are working on the same skills and meet their needs that way.

We will also be listening for the final sound in a word, making more lists and talk about the beginning, middle and end of a story.

We just started Chapter 5 in Math, so we will continue talking about geometric shapes.

Hi everyone!
This week has flown by! We have been working in our stations and the students are getting better and better. Ena, Eathon, Dakota and Karina are in the Word Work Station. In this station the students practice their sight words. They are playing the Pancake Flip Game.

Maxx, Hannah, and Sam are in the Reading Station. They are creating their own book covers for the book, "Down on the Farm".

Darren and Jesse worked in the Letter and Sound Center. They had to put the letter puzzle pieces together.

Connor, Laniah, Lance and Anida worked in the Listening Center. They followed along as the book was being read to them for the CD Player.

Ingrid and Bryce are working in the Letter Center too!

Kalkidan, Grace, Owen and Jake worked in the Writing Center. Here they had to write a farm animals name and draw it. We will make these into our Animal Mobiles!