Weekly Newsletter

 Literacy:

This week, we reviewed letters, letter formation, and sounds. We worked in the whole group and in small groups on building, writing, and reading C-V-C words.   We also practiced building and writing a simple sentence. 

Our "Snap Word" this week was from.. We continue to review and practice snap words. 

Introduced Snap Words: the, a, and, are, to, is, his, an, am, can, as, has, was, he, be, me, we, she  I, you, see, like or, for and from. 

Introduced Letters: All!

During Heggerty (our phonological awareness program), we isolated and identified beginning, middle, and ending sounds in words spoken aloud.  We practiced isolating the middle sound of a word by riding a "roller coaster" (the hill is the middle vowel sound). We blended and segmenting words with three phonemes (CVC words).  We also took away the and changed the first sound in a word. 

In EL Literacy, we continued our module on weather, focusing on wind. We read about types of wind and wind storms, and watched a Mystery Science video about them as well. We made "breeze buddies" and used them to see which direction the wind was blowing, and how fast. 

Mathematics: 

This week in math, we worked on building our understanding of the concept of "doubles." We looked at visual represesntations of numbers to ten  to build our understanding of doubles. We used manipulatives on a ten frame to create visual representations of doubles, and then practiced writing the equations (ex. 2+2=4, 3+3=6).  

In Number Corner, we said goodbye to our December calendar, and hello to January and 2026. This calendar focuses on part-part-whole relationships, using buttons of different colors. We also began to record and graph the temperature and weather each day. This month, we are spinning our spinner, picking cubes, and graphing them by color. 

Work Places: 

*We finished up these Work Places: 

-Butterfly Game (Number recognition and adding) 

-Grab Bag More or Less

-Gingerbread Tally Write the Room

-Mitten Addition and Subtraction Introduction

-Which Bug Will Win? 

Literacy Centers: 

*We finally finished these centers:

• Beginning, Ending or B-M-E sound Write the Room

• Albuquerque Turkey in our Poetry Journals

• Gingerbread Man Class Book 

• Gingerbread Build and Write a Sentence

• New vs Old Toy Sort

Choice: 

• Art Area: Open ended "snowman" art: cotton rounds, buttons, small colorful "sticks," googly eyes, felt, etc. 

• Recycling Centers: recylables, masking tape, scissors, cloth and more

• Easel with blue, white and purple paint on blue, purple, or teal paper

• Sparkly blue playdough with  cookie cutters, rolling pins, Play-Do scissors, and decorating materials (eyes, buttons, etc.)

• Writing Center: Letter stamps, new winter coloring pages pages, how-to draw cards, cards, blank books

• Dramatic Play: Under Construction

• Library: Winter, Snow, and Weather themed-books

•  Magna-tiles, Plus-Plus Builders, Dinosaurs, Legos, and Straw Builders

• Wooden Train Tracks, Marble Maze, Wooden Houses & People

• Large Wooden Blocks

• Food Letter magnets on wall white board. 

 Books and Poems:

Sneezy the Snowman (read several times, and practiced sequencing)

Weather Words and What they Mean (we re-read the "wind" section)

The Snowy Day

A Letter to Amy

and more! 

"Snowball" by Shel Silverstein

 At Home Ideas:  

-During and after reading a story, talk about the main problem in the story, and the solution. 

 -Practice retelling a familiar story. 

-Secure your "breeze buddy" outside of a window, and use it to observe the wind each day. 

-Practice "doubling" numbers 1-5. Try higher numbers for a challenge. 

Other: 

Donations Needed: 

-Gallon sized Ziploc bags