Kindergarten
Language Arts- Our new songs are, "Candy Cane Chorus" and "Reindeer on Rooftops".  Look for the songs to come home on Friday.  We learned the letters and sounds for x and y.  We also learned the two sounds that oo can make.  New popcorn words include: little, and, yes, no, so & go.  Keep practicing the letters, sounds and words over the break.  We are seeing great progress here!!
Math- We continue to work with numbers through 10.  Our centers the past two weeks included the following: ordering cups by number and putting the correct number of sticks in each, number puzzles, numbering dog bones,  gingerbread baking and hot chocolate dash.

1st grade tier 3 reading
We continued to work with word endings.  We focused on the following short vowel endings: -it, -in, ig, -op, -og, -ot, -ill, and -all.  We also began to look at some long vowel endings including: -ade, -ake, -ike, -ile, and -ide.  We have started reading level D books, which are somewhat equivalent to a DRA level 6.  Continue reading daily with your child over the break!!

ENJOY YOUR HOLIDAYS!!!

Kindergarten

Reading- Our song for the week was December.  We worked on the letters and sounds for w and v.  We made a walrus and a vulture.  Popcorn words for the week were: ran, into, & for.  We are working on sounding out simple CVC words, using all of the letters that we have learned thus far.

Math- We continued to work on numbers 0-10.  We matched numbered apples to their stems.  We played a bean bag toss game and determined greater and lesser numbers.  We also used a "10-frame" and counted cats.  

On Friday, we made some reindeer using graph paper.

RTi-1st grade tier 3 reading 

We completed filling in our short vowel chart using short u words.  We began to talk about word chunks this week we worked with -at, -an, -et, -en, -am, and -ad.  The students are doing a great job of reading their daily leveled books.  I hope you are enjoying them as well.  We had our progress monitor day on Friday rather than Thursday this week so there is no homework this weekend.