Room 4

Mrs. Flanagan's Kindergarten    

GIRAFFE NEWS

Dec. 3, 2007

A Peek at the Week

Letter I and its short sound (in, if)

Numeral 7 (counting, writing, sets)

"_it" word family (pit, fit, sit)
Solid shapes and measurement

Fire safety

Gingerbread Man activities

Beginning map skills

Review address

New Words

you

it

Poems or Songs

Number Formation Poems

SEVEN

Across the sky

And down from heaven

That's the way

To make a seven.

 

Alphabet Sound Chant for Letter I

 

Icky insect, icky insect,    i-i-i
(Shake hand up and down like you're trying to shake off something)

From the

Teacher's Desk

    We still need 5 large metal coffee cans for a craft project. Please ask grandparents, aunts and uncles to see if they can help us out.  This is the final week because I have to paint them over the coming weekend. I hope every child gets to make this craft!

     For Show and Tell this week (Wednesday), the children can bring something beginning with letter I or something that is a solid shape (cube, sphere, pyramid, cylinder, cone, rectangular prism).

     Homework this week is completing a fire safety checklist. It will be due on Friday.

     Our Parent Writing Workshop is this Friday, Dec. 7, at 12:45 in the library. Please try to come. I'll be sending home a reminder with this newsletter. You will be helping your child create a "mini office" to use as a reference when practicing writing at home.

     There will be no new snack calendar until January. We'll be using the "leftovers" for the next 3 weeks.

     There is a note attached to sign up to help us next Wednesday, Dec. 12, with our "Santa Workshop". We will be making some Christmas crafts and rotating the children through centers. We'll begin right after announcements at the start of school.

     This week we will be learning about fire safety this week. We'll practice dialing 911 so students should be able to state their name and address for this activity---do a quick review of this at home.

     PTA is having a Santa Shop next Thursday through Friday (Dec. 13-14) so students can purchase inexpensive gifts for family members.  A  reminder will be coming home

     I've also included the Pizza Hut Book-It calendar for December and a book order. Return the book order by Friday if you're ordering.

Book of

the Week

 

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

 

 

Many children need glue sticks!

Please, please keep working on coat fastening and shoe tying.

Special

Thanks

The children  loved sharing their family photos! Thanks to the families of Lamont, Kevin and Victoria for sending in coffee cans.