December 22-27

This was our last week of December and so wrapped up our theme of the month and a few of our focal vocabulary words this month. We finished the month of December and our theme of Christmas with our Christmas performance and party! We had a lot of fun showing everyone our hard work and we hope everyone enjoyed the performance! After our performance we got a chance to play a few christmas themed games, such as finding presents and then unwrapping presents with gloves, and a few other really fun Christmas themed games! We has a lot of fun and we all got little presents to keep as little Christmas gifts! To wrap up our theme of Christmas we made Christmas stockings and hung them on our classroom door in hopes that Santa clause would leave us a little presents for being good this year! After Christmas we began another theme of weather and seasons which we will continue working on into the beginning of January. For the theme of weather and season we began with a short cartoon about weather and a worksheet to reinforce everything we learned from the video. We continued working on our phonics and phonetic awareness skills this week with a number of activities and worksheets. We finished our work on the letters r and q in our workbook. We learned a number of new words beginning with the letters r and q including quiet, quilt, question, rainbow, robot, red, and rose. We also practiced our phonetics and letter recognition skills with a few activities including letter recognition bingo, "erase" to the board, and a letter recognition board game. We have become very good at recognizing the different sounds of the letters which is an essential skill for learning how to spell and read properly. We used play dough as a tool to help us build letters and shapes for practice. For vocabulary this week and this month we practiced with flashcards by playing "memory" and go fish - through these activities we were able to practice our understanding and recognition skills. We added a number of new sight words to our list of words and we practiced recognizing and spelling them with worksheets and a race to the sight word activity. We also read a book together to practice our listening, reading, and oral skills. This week for our writing practice we practiced writing with the focus on the letter "o". We practiced writing and learning a number of new vocabulary words beginning with the letter "o" including octopus, oranges, oval, owl, and ostrich. We had a very busy and very fun week of learning and I can't wait to see everyone's smiling faces bright early Monday morning!

December 15 - 19

This week we spent time working on our theme of Christmas, and practicing our songs, speeches, and dances for the upcoming performance! We are all very excited for Christmas and we want to make sure we work hard to show everyone all the hard work we've put into our Christmas practices! For the theme of Christmas this week we talked about Santa clause, and all the things we are grateful for and the things we like about Christmas (and the gifts we hope Santa will bring us!) To help practice vocabulary and learn more about Christmas we watched a short cartoon about Franklin the Turtle donating a Christmas gift to less fortunate children. We also made a few crafts this week including Santa clauses made from tracing our hands and drawing and colouring in Santa. It was a lot of fun and we put them up around our classroom to help us get into the Christmas spirit! We also worked on phonics this week with the focus on the letter recognition of the letters r and q. We worked hard to add a few new words beginning with r and q to our vocabulary! So far we have added the words rainbow, queen, quiz, question, and we will continue practicing and adding more words next week! We practiced our letter recognition and spelling skills with a few activities including memory, go fish, and letter-bingo. We worked on math this week as well by practicing our number writing and counting skills with both worksheets and an activity where we use blocks to aid us in our adding skills. For writing this week on the letter n. We practiced writing little and big N's and learned new words that begin with n, as well as reinforcing our letter recognition of the letter n sound. We finished the week off with reading a book about apple picking to practice our listening, reading, and verbal skills. We recognized a number of our sight words while reading and added a few new words to our vocabulary while reading! We had a great week and we are excited for Christmas next week and I can't wait to see all their smiling faces on Monday morning!

December 8 - 12

We are getting closer to Christmas as we continue our classes into December and we are very excited to celebrate Christmas together! We worked very hard on our Christmas speeches, songs, and dances this week so that we are prepared for our Christmas performance next week. For the theme this week we continued to work on Christmas and winter, so we made a few crafts! We made Christmas ornaments, Christmas stockings, and we talked about Santa clause and all the things we hope he'll bring us this year, and all the things we are grateful for. We also watched a short cartoon about Frosty the Snowman and talked about all the fun things we can do in the winter when it snows. We also worked on a number of worksheets in our phonics workbook. This week we focused on the letters n and p. we practiced our vocabulary, spelling, and phonics of many words that begin with the letters and p. We practiced letter recognition for all of the letters of the alphabet with a few activities. We played a board game where we had to recognize the picture and the letter to move forward, we also played go fish and memory to continue our practice. We worked on math and writing this week. We focused on writing that letter m and writing numbers 1, 2 and 3. We completed a number of writing and math worksheets to reinforce our skills. We also read a book together and practiced our sight words as well as our oral, and reading skills. We had a fantastic week of fun learning, and I can't wait to see everyone's faces on Monday morning!

December 1 - 5

It's December and Christmas is upon us this month! We are getting very excited about Christmas so we've begun learning about Christmas and adding new Christmas vocabulary to out vocabulary. We coloured and decorated a Christmas tree craft this week as part of our art and theme project. We also spent time working on our Christmas speeches, songs, and dances. We are practicing had every day so that we can do a really good job for everyone on Christmas Day! This week we worked on writing with the focus on the letter "L". In our phonics workbook we worked on the letters n and p and practiced recognizing the sounds they make and many new words that begin with n and p. We are working hard at our phonics and phonemic skills as a way to help build our understanding of the English language so we can begin spelling words properly and reading words! We had a great week and I can't wait to see everyone's smiling faces on Monday morning!