Valentine's Day Class List

Just in case you want to get a head start on our class Valentine's.

February Newsletter will be going home next week.

          Emma                   Gabe                     Hannah              Max B

          Mason                  Maeva                   Collin                Benny 

          Cora                     Annie                    Molly                Charley

          Max                      Dylan                   Juliet                  Colin

          Jack                      Zachary                Dustin                Patrick            Alex                     Elena                    Maeve                Abby

                   

Miss Carol, Miss Cathy & Miss Michelle

 Extra Large Tissue Boxes Needed
We will painting our Valentine boxes next week and are in need of more extra large tissue boxes.  Please send in any empty tissue boxes you may have.  Thank you so much!!

Pajama Day Fun

Lots of fun pajama's, nightgowns, bathrobes, slippers, blankets, stuffed animals and a book.

Ninja Turtles

Super Heroes

Frozen/Elsa

Lobster

]football

dinosaur

spiderman

cats

fire engine & animals

owls

girl

elf

polar bear

panda bear

batman

my little pony

reindeer

stars

race cars

 Our Pajama Day Graph

Essential Question:  Why do people wear pajamas?

(respond to this blog with your child's ideas)

Popcorn & Movie

Good Night Gorrilla, Good Night Moon & Sammy.

 

Musical Chairs is a party favorite.

Reading Standards for Literature:  Integration of knowledge and ideas. 

MA.9.   With prompting and support, make connections between a story or poem and one’s own experiences.

Math Standards: PreK Counting and Cardinality   Know number names and the counting sequence.

MA.1. Listen to and say the names of numbers in meaningful contexts. 

Snowballs by Lois Ehlert

Our class read the Lois Ehlert book Snowballs.  She used a lot of different "stuff" to illustrate so many of her snow creations in this book.  She has a page of "good stuff" at the end of the book.  She also has snow information and different snowmen at the end of this book. Our class used a variety of "stuff" to make a big Snowman creation and each student made made the their own. The following are some of the different things that the children made:

Snow Dad

Snow Mama

Snow Baby

Snow Ninja

Snow Boy

Snow Girl

Snow Monster

Read snowballs by Lois Ehlert with your child at home/Library and let us know what their favorite part of this story was.  

MA.10.  Listen actively as an individual and as a member of a group to a variety of age-appropriate informational texts read aloud.

Happy New Year! 2016

Our class had a discussion about the year 2015 and all of the children's favorite things that they did last year.

We also discussed the new year of 2016 that started on January 1st and whether any one knew what making a New Years Resolution meant.  We did get quite a few adorable ideas that I didn't write down at the time.  The following are the resolutions that the children chose for 2016.

Essential Question:  Why do people make New Years Resolutions?  

Lois Ehlert Books

Our class has been reading quite a few Lois Ehlert books this Fall and Winter.   Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf The Leaf Man Nuts to You Boo to You  & Snowballs Some of the children said that they have Lois Ehlert books at home.  We would love to have as many different books by this author as we can and would appreciate if you could have your child bring in to school next week (only if you have one).  I borrowed some extras from our school Library and Miss Judy.  
We will be doing some shared reading with buddies to look at books together and discuss their favorite parts of the books.  We will also be reinforcing 1:1 correspondence when "reading" the titles of books as well as the author.  We will be sure to take many pictures and post next week.  
Thanks so much!

Holiday Party and The Polar Express

Snack Time

We made gingerbread houses and/or people for our special snack. We added raisin features and then baked them in our kitchen oven.

  

The Polar Express

The children were mesmerized by the older students and many of our siblings performances.  So much fun!