Weekly Update

Snowy weather is here.  All kinderkids must wear snowpants and boots when 
there is snow on the ground.  If you do not want your child to wear his/her 
snowpants to school, they can be carried in a bag.  Boots are very important 
because no one wants to sit on the carpet when wet shoes have been walking on 
it.  Remember to bring shoes to wear during school!

We have many children without mittens and hats.  The children go outside 
daily and it is getting very cold out there.  Please be sure your child has 
mittens or gloves and a hat, plus the boots and snowpants.

We finished the third set of sounds  which included Gg, Oo, Uu, Ll, Ff, Bb.  
The practice book came home on Friday and a new blending list came home on 
Thursday.  Keep practicing the sounds and blending.

In math we have learned the correct way to write 1 through 9 now.  We 
continue to work on patterns.  This math series spirals the curriculum, so 
there is lots of reinforcement of each concept.

We are talking about Advent.  I hope the children are using their advent 
activity calendar and advent chain.  We are working on learning the Our 
Father.  The children will be tested on it for the next report card.

We have begun to write our last names in "school writing."

This was gingerbread week in our classroom.  We made gingerbread people and 
heard many versions of the story of the gingerbread man.  We heard about a 
gingerbread baby and gingerbread cowboy and even a runaway pickle!  We ate a 
gingerbread cookie and graphed the part that we ate first.

We learned about how animals spend the winter.  We learned which animals 
hibernate, migrate, and adapt.

Many thanks to all who sold magazines.  Next Friday we will find out if we 
won the ice cream party.