Welcome Back!!!

Welcome back and happy new year! We have picked up right where we left off in kindergarten. It's always amazing (and wonderful) to me how kindergartners start to blossom and really take off in January! I LOVE it!!!! During the month of January we will be doing a lot of writing about winter, studying winter, and doing winter themed projects (snowflakes, snowmen, and penguins). We will continue with Arctic animals in February as well.

Last week we started to discuss winter and the clothes you wear in winter. We read the book, The Jacket I Wear in the Snow and labeled this person with the clothes we might wear during winter.

The kids colored their own people and wrote about the clothes they wear in the winter. I didn't take any pictures of these, but they all took them home on Wednesday. The kids also drew pictures of winter and wrote 2 things they wonder about winter...most of them wonder if it will snow this year;) After reading many books about winter this week, the kinders wrote about what "We Can, We Have, and We See" in winter. I LOVE what they came up with!

 

 

We made these snowflakes from squares and rectangles...I love these. We will make snowmen to go with them next week.

We continued working on math journals this week and writing number sentences to 10. Check out these two math strategies!

 

The kids practiced reading and writing words ending with -an this week. Here is our word family house.

 

 

Ask your child to practice writing these words at home.

 

Last, but not least we made this graph to determine if our class likes to wear gloves or mittens better.

 

 

I was surprised more kids liked mittens! They usually say gloves are better for playing outside;))

 

Hope you all have a great weekend and I will see you soon!

~Darci