December 2, 2016
Our next unit of study is seasonal literature. The children will have opportunities to identify characters, identify settings,retell stories, and to give the main idea of stories. These skills are difficult for little ones. We will also be working on measurement skills next week. The children will estimate the weight of various items and then check their work for accuracy by measuring the items using nonstandard units of measure. We will continue to identify numbers 0-20, to count and make sets up to 20, to identify the tens and ones place in two-digit numbers, and to model two-digit numbers using “ten sticks” and “ones.” The children will put numbers 0-20 in order without a pattern. We are also learning to solve math word problems using illustrations!
____ The children are very excited about the approaching holidays. Let your child draw a holiday picture (using lots of color) on the enclosed paper and write a sentence to go with the picture. Remind your child that sentences begin with a capital letter, end with a period, and have spaces between the words. If your child wants to write at least three sentences to make a story, please let him or her! (They are doing this in their journals for me.)
____ Math Focus:Have your child draw and solve the enclosed math problem about cookies and Santa! Let your child tell you what they need to do to solve the problem. They should be able to tell you that they need to draw it out. The problem is: I made 12 cookies on Christmas Eve. I want to share them with Santa. How many cookies will we each of us get if we both get the same number of cookies? Ask your child, “What should you draw first?” (Santa and me) Your child should draw him/herself and Santa. Let him or her use pennies to represent the cookies. Then ask, “How can we use the “cookies” to figure out how many we each get?” Have him/her place a penny under each picture, continuing until all of the pennies are gone. Then ask, “How many cookies will Santa and you get?” The answer should be 6. Have your child draw 6 cookies under (or above) Santa and 6 cookies under (or above) themselves. Please return this paper. Don’t forget to have your child write his/her name on the paper.
If you don’t do any other homework with your child this week, please read at least five books with him or her. It is the most important thing you can do to help your child in school.
____Book List: My child and I read the following books together:
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___I read at least 50 minutes (five books) with my child this week.
____ Review: numbers, letters, letter sounds, beginning letter sounds, ending letter sounds, the five senses, words, counting to 100 (by 1’s, 5’s, 10’s), writing his/her first name (review spacing between letters and the sizes of the letters), identifying shapes (2-D and 3-D), shape descriptions (2-D and 3-D), comparing shapes (2-D and 3-D), days of the week, the months of the year.
____New words: you, what, do
Reviewa, and, am, can, come, eat, go, in, it, is, I, like, me, my, no, run, see, to, the, we, with, yes. (The children should be able to identify these words quickly.)
_____Have your child readAt the Park, the enclosed book that puts the words back into text.
Reminders
The children will be painting in art next week. Please dress your child in old clothes!
December 5-9- PTO Holiday Workshop
Our shopping day is on Monday, December 5, from 12:00-12:40.
Winter Holidays: Monday, December 19, 2015-Monday, January 2, 2017.
Students return to school on Tuesday, December 3.
Your Partner in Education,
Ginger Carter
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