UCS Kindergarten Newsletter
December 5, 2025
December 5, 2025
Kindergarten friends created habitats for their clay animals during Integrated Arts. They used their imaginations to make food and homes using the materials Mrs. Aucter provided. They had fun making ponds, fields, and forests for the animals. They shared about their Vermont animals with their friends and got to take home their clay animals and habitats this week.
Important Dates
Dec 10th ~ Early Release Day
Dec 24th - Jan 2nd ~ Winter Break
Jan 14th ~ Early Release Day
Jan 19th ~ No School
Learning Highlights from the Week
The children worked on filling a few pattern block designs with different shapes. They practiced counting the number of blocks used in the picture and writing the number to represent the total. They played a game called “Fill the Hexagon” and noticed different ways to fill that shape using smaller pattern blocks. They also made shape murals before break which are hanging in the hallway near the classroom.
The children shared what their animal needs in order to live and created habitats during Integrated Arts. They also learned about mammals during literacy time. They learned what makes an animal a mammal, what baby mammals do, and different life cycles of mammals. We will learn about birds and reptiles next week.
During Reading Workshop, the children worked on:
reviewing letters and sounds
building words using letter tiles
learning new power words (like, and)
decoding words by tapping out sounds
discussing facts about animals during read alouds
During Writing Workshop, the children drew different animals and worked on including many details in their pictures. They worked on:
planning before writing
using shapes and lines to draw
labeling parts of animals
stretching words to write many sounds
using power words to write sentences
Reminders
Please make sure your child brings a warm jacket, hat, mittens, and boots every day. We try to go outside at least 2 times each day so it is really important to have warm gear. Thank you!
Next Wednesday will be another Early Release Day. Students being picked up will be dismissed at 12:20.
Email: kathleen.cowan@mmuusd.org
Location: 6 Irish Settlement Rd, Underhill, VT 05489
Phone: 802.899.4676