Week of December 14-18, 2015

Hello families,
It's hard to believe we are starting our final school week of 2015. Your kids are amazing and have come so far in the past 4 months. I am so lucky to be their teacher.

As always, we have a busy week coming up:

Important Dates

Thursday, December 17: Kids will be sharing their informational posters about an animal with the class. If your child has not yet brought in a picture of their animal, please help them do so no later than Tuesday 12/15.

Friday, December 18: Free dress day/Room 4 winter celebration, 12-1 pm. We will be decorating cookies, singing songs, and making a couple of crafts. If you'd like to help out that day please let me know. If you'd like to help by sending in cookies or decorating items, there is a sign-up sheet in room 4.

Friday, January 15: Kindergarten field trip to see the Sacramento Theater Company's performance of James and the Giant Peach. If you haven't done so already, please send in $6 for your child's ticket. I need to send in the money early next week. Thank you!

Language Arts
This week we continue to work on blending sounds and letters to make words.
We will finish up learning about the features of informational text, and the kids will finish their informational posters about an animal they chose.
Letter/sound focus: /p/, /h/ and short a
New sight words: at

Math
Instead of beginning a new chapter this week we will review and take some time to focus on practicing addition facts. The kids are loving adding and are very proud of themselves to be working on such "grown up" math.

Thanks for reading, everyone! And thank you, parents and grandparents, for all of your help in and out of the classroom so far this year. I am so grateful for all of you.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.