Welcome back! I hope you had a wonderful holiday and great New Year! I want to thank you all for the wonderful gifts you donated to the room and gave me. Thank you all very, very much!

K - 5 has been waiting for the first day of winter. We start each day with our morning meeting and go through the calendar. We say the day, month, year and season. The first day of the winter season is the day of the year when the Sun is farthest south (on December 21st). On Monday, Jan. 3rd, 2011, the students are going to be so excited to say it is Winter! They have all been saying, "It feels like Winter, but not yet!" Well, it definitely feels and is winter!

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 meanings of the words. K - 5 does a great job on their vocabulary words!

We will be working in our centers this week. The students are learning how to work independently.

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