Room 4

Mrs. Flanagan's Kindergarten    

GIRAFFE NEWS

Nov. 12, 2007

A Peek at the Week

Color word "gray"
Numeral 5 (counting, writing, making sets)

Letter Gg and its sound
New vocabulary words
"on" & "van"

Review short A word families
Pilgrims/Native Americans

Comparing/sequencing numbers 0-5
Solid shapes

New Words

gray

on

van

Poems or Songs

Gray
(Jingle Bells tune)
Gray, gray, gray.

Gray, gray, gray.

G   R  A   Y, gray.

An elephant's knees,

A mouse with cheese.

Shades of gray today.

Number Formation Poems

 

FIVE

 Straight line down,

Then around.

Hat on top

And five's a clown.

Alphabet Sound Chant for Letter G

 

Gulping ghost, gulping ghost,    g-g-g
(Put hand on throat and make gulping sound)

From the

Teacher's Desk

This week's events:

MONDAY:  Pfeiffer's Canned Food Drive continues. Please try to send in something to brighten Thanksgiving for our less fortunate families. The primary classroom that sends in the most food will get to choose the video for a reward!

TUESDAY:  Canned food drive

WEDNESDAY: Last Day for the canned food drive!

THURSDAY:  Show and Tell Day. Wear something gray and bring something that is either gray or begins with letter G. A homework paper will come home.

FRIDAY:  Homework is due.

NEXT WEEK:  We will share a Friendship Fruit Salad on Tuesday. Please send in one can of fruit or fresh fruit already cut up.

FUTURE EVENTS:  We will have a Parent Writing Workshop in the LRC on Thursday, December 7, from 1:00 till 2:15. We will be explaining the writing process and you will be making mini-offices to help your child practice writing at home. Please try to attend! If you can't make it, another relative is welcome to come in your place (grandmas, grandpas, aunts, uncles).

  

Thanks for your help with the Family Homework project. Your disguised turkeys were wonderful!

Book of

the Week

 

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

 

 

 

We will be sharing a Friendship Fruit Salad next Tuesday, Nov. 20. Please send in 1can of fruit or a piece of fresh fruit already cut up.

Special

Thanks

Thanks to the families of Josie, Jaelyn, Victoria and Jazlyn for sending in extra snacks and treats!  

We appreciate the tutoring help from Isabel's Mom!