Week of December 19th Ringwood Two’s Room

This week in the two’s room we will be talking about Christmas and making our wish lists. We will be singing songs as such Santa Clause is coming to town, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer and Five Little Christmas Trees. We will be making Moms & Dads a present for the Holiday’s. We have a lot of projects planned for Christmas, we will be making stockings to hang on our fireplace.

Week of December 12th Bauer Drive Two’s Room

This week in the two’s room is all about this special time of year. We will be learning about Hanukkah and winter fun!!! We will play the dreidel game and making latkes. We will talk about the things we like to do in the winter and make snowmen!!

Week of December 12th Bauer Drive Kindergarten

The holidays  are getting so close! We have a fun and busy week ahead of us. For starters, we will be continuing with our curriculum.  This week, we are finishing up Unit 2.  That being said, we will be reviewing a lot.  There will be a lot of phonics games and activities reviewing all of the letters and letter sounds we have covered thus far.  We will also be reviewing syllables, initial, final and medial sounds, blending, segmenting and rhyming.  We will be taking blending a step further this week and trying to have the children spell the words on their own.  This won’t be a new concept, as they are attempting to sound out words to spell in their journals several times every week. We will be reviewing all of our previous amazing words and vocabulary words, as well as learning new this week. Our amazing words this week are ogre, magic, lad, naughty, beanstalk and lend.  As you can probably tell, these words relate to our main reading selection of the week Jack and the Beanstalk.  We will continue to discuss fairy tales, modern fairy tales, expository text, realism and fantasy and nursery rhymes. We will review our comprehension skills such as plot, characters, setting, main idea, retelling, sequence and reading for a purpose.   Some of our other reading selections will be Tim and Sam, All About Me, Tires, Tim’s Garden and A Yard for All. We will use our main selection to discuss our question of the week “How are real and make-believe plants alike and different?”In Mathematics, we will finish up with the second part of chapter 2.  We will continue to learn the concept of numbers 0-9, recognize and correctly write 0-9, pair up the names of the numbers with the actual numerals and pair up sets of objects.  We will understand the relationship between looking at a number and actually moving that amount of times.  In addition to this, we will continue to do some graphing, addition, patterning, symmetry and money. With all that, we still need to find some time for holiday fun! So this week we will travel around the world to learn about how others celebrate the holidays.  We will use our maps and smartboard to take some virtual field trips around the world.  We will read stories and learn about their traditions.  For example, on Tuesday, we will travel to Sweden and learn about St. Lucia.  Our girls will be St. Lucia wearing candle crowns and our boys will be the star boys! Later on in the day, we will talk about the Syrian tradition.  It is the smallest camel of the Wise Men who deliver holiday gifts to well behaved children.  We will do some size order activities and determine the smallest as well.On Wednesday, we will talk about our traditions here in the United States, the history of the Christmas Tree and will have our ornament party!!  In the afternoon, we will visit the Philippines where star shaped lanterns called parols brighten homes and streets during the season.  We will sort pieces of parols and assemble our own!  Later in the week, we will visit Australia where Christmas is a summer celebration! Thank you to Liam’s family for lending us some books about Christmas in Australia.  Finally, on Friday we will celebrate Los Posados!  We will discuss the Mexican celebration and again, review our own traditions.  You should expect to hear your children talking all about what we are learning. If you have anything to share about a holiday, let me know! We love having parents get involved in our day to day lessons!!!

Week of December 12th Bauer Drive Pre-K

This week in pre-k we will be talking about ” Out in the Fields”!!!we will be looking at all the different jobs there are to do on the farm this week! We start the week off by asking the question: How do machines help farmers!!?? WE will also be learning new concept words: field, row, seed, soil, tool and tractor. Our amazing words this week are crowd, fancy, pond, fair, parade and startle. Our reading books this wee are “On the Farm”, Otis, Farmer, and Wheat from the Farm. Our poem this week is called A Farmers Market!! We we also be making groups of five this week and reviewing word problems and solid shapes also this week. WE will be practicing rhyming words and breaking words apart! We will be learning new letters this week also: Rr and Ww!!! We will then be learning about different holidays around the world and on Wednesday we will be having a ornament decorating party!!! WE are also going to be making some fun holiday projects an working on a special surprise for our mommy’s and daddy’s:)

Week of December 12th Bauer Drive Three’s Room

This week in the three’s class we will be learning how to share with Mr. B and learning about how in Mexico on Dec. 16  the children parade through the town carrying lanterns. we will also talk about Hanukkah which begins at sundown on Dec.20 and how some children will help  with lighting the first candle on the menorah and continues for 8 nights.Mr. B from the Land of the Letter People will visit also. He is covered in beautiful buttons. He will teach us about sharing and taking turns. December certainly is a busy month!

Week of December 12th Bauer Drive Toddler Room

This week in the toddler room is all about winter fun and hanukah!! We are going to talk about what we see at this time of year and how Hanukah is celebrated. We will also be decorating our room for the holidays with all our new and pretty projects we have been working on !!

Week of December 12th Bauer Drive Infant Room

This month in the infant room we have some very exciting things happening!!! With the new year upon us we are going to be taking our one year old children into the kitchen area to be working on age appropriate activities. Some of the activities are puzzles, art and crafts, story time and many more different activities to come. We also want to wish everyone happy holidays !!!!

Week of December 12th Ringwood Kindergarden

We had a terrific time last week making our gingerbread houses.  They all looked delicious!  Our theme for this week is “Jack and the Beanstalk” and Holiday’s Around the World.  Throughout this week, we will be packing our bags and traveling around the world to observe different traditions and holidays.  We will be looking more closely at Christmas in Italy, Kwanzaa in Africa, Christmas in Mexico, Hanukkah in Israel, and Christmas in the USA.  We will then discuss some similarities and differences between each.  We would love to hear/see/learn about any traditions your family may have for this holiday season. You may have a favorite story, snack, activity/game, etc, that you would like to share.  For example, for the past three years on christmas day my family builds something (changes yearly) out of legos.  The first year it was a 10 foot pyramid, then a life size Santa’s sled, and last year was an 8 foot toy soldier.  This year we will be building a phone booth from London, England.  I have brought in pictures to show everyone our finished products.

Our ‘question of the week’ is “How are real and make-believe plants alike and different?”  Throughout this week we will talk, sing, read, and write about real and make-believe plants.  We will start off taking a look at our new ‘Amazing Words’: beanstalk, lad, ogre, magic, naughty, and lend.  We also have four new Sight Words: not, can, going,  and up, which we will add to our Word Book.  We will hear these words throughout the week in various stories we hear and read.  Some stories we will be reading this week are: Sam Sit, Tim and Sam, Tim’s Garden, Tires, and our big book Jack and the Beanstalk.  We will review focusing and sequence, and focusing on realism in our fantasy groups.  We will practice sounding out unfamiliar words, recognizing new sight words and reading with fluency.  Additionally, we will be continuing to learn phonetical skills such as syllables, initial sounds, blending and decoding words and rhyme.  We will be focusing on the sound /i/ spelled Ii.  We will continue to work on our adjectives focusing on adjectives for opposites.  When talking with your child, encourage them to use their adjectives when describing something.  In writing we will be learning about the writing process.

In Math, we will be exploring addition.  Along with our number practice, we will continue to learn, count, and work with money.  More specifically, we have been exploring the dime, quarter, and the half dollar.  Also, we will continue exploring number patterns on our 100s chart and counting forward and backwards from 20.  In Science, we will continue learning about winter and the different characteristics of our four seasons.  Next week, we will be making our Magic Snow and exploring the different states of water.  In Social Studies, throughout the upcoming weeks we will be exploring Holidays Around the World.  We are excited to travel around the world and other children’s holiday traditions.

In our learning centers this week we will continue to explore and discover all of the important concepts we have been learning about thus far.  In our Art Center we will be making a variety of holiday projects; in Math we will be working with our connecting cubes to explore addition; in our Writing Center we will be writing a story about the holidays; and finally in Computer, creating a holiday card.

For homework this week: read library book then fill out book report sheet.  The homework is due on Friday, December 16^th.  Please remember to review all sight words daily.

Please be sure to check the “Kindergarten Times” daily for updates, sign-up sheets, and important classroom information.  Also, please be sure to bring the yellow ‘Take Home Folders’, found in the green cubbies, home and back to school everyday.

Miss Trish

*** Help Needed: Our Holiday Party date has been changed.  It will be on Thursday December 22^nd Monday

*** Fun Facts: Beethoven’s Birthday 12/16

Week of December 12th Ringwood Pre-K

This week is in the Pre-k is a review week. We will review all our concept and amazing words we have learned. We will practice identifying shapes and adding using the shapes. We will tell stories with farm animals by adding and taking away. We will review all geometric shapes such as cube, cylinder, rectangular prism, sphere and cone. In science we will discuss how seeds grow and the parts of a plant. We will review all upper and lower case letters with focus on K, S, T, U, W, X, Z. The class will continue rhyming and making/breaking words. We will also listen to words with the same beginning sound. The class will continue to make Holiday projects!!

Week of December 12th Ringwood Three’s Room

This week we are learing about how we share plus the letter B and about Hanukah!!!We will be learning the Letter B and its sound. Our worksheets will include finding pictures that start with B and matching letters. Mr. B is going to teach us how important it is to share with our friends! We will talk about ways we can share each day. We will be talking about Hanukkah and that its celebrated for 8 days and receive a present each night. We will be making menorahs and playing the dreidel game.

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