December 1st - December 5th

What We Are Learning

Reading:  This week we learned a new strategy to help us read accurately.  Stretchy Snake reminds us to stretch the word out slowly and then put all the sounds together. We also practiced making words from the word families –ot & -et (examples: got, pot, spot, get, let, met, etc.).

Alphabet: We focused on the sounds the letters Ff, Rr, Kk, Bb, & Uu make.  We also learned that the letter Uu has more than one sound.

Writing:  We learned how to publish our narrative stories.  We made sure that they had a beginning, middle, and end.  We also made sure that we had correct spaces, capitalization, and punctuation.  When we had all parts, we created a cover to go with our story!

Math: During math this week, we continued to practice strategies to solve subtraction and addition word problems. We drew pictures and highlighted words to help us understand which of the problems were subtraction and which were addition.

Theme: We started a new unit on gingerbread.  We read several stories and retold them using pictures to help us remember the events.  We also created a Gingerbread Man class book.

Classroom Pictures

I have uploaded several pictures onto our classroom blog . Click on the Classroom Pictures tab to see some of the fun things that have been going on in our classroom. My plan is to update this section more frequently.  

Wish List Items

Here are just a few items that we could use inside our classroom:

Dry Erase Markers (thin & thick)

Unique Pencils

Cool Erasers

Special Markers

Glittery Pens

You all are always so generous! Thank you for helping our classroom run smoothly!

Ronald McDonald House

Mrs. McKinney’s class is collecting items for the Ronald McDonald House, and I want our class to help! Here is a list of items that you can donate to help this great program:

Magic Erasers         

Snack size food

Small Trash Bags         

Travel size toothpaste

K-cups (all varieties)      

Toilet Bowl Brushes

Clorox Wipes      

Furniture polish

Disinfecting/bleach spray cleaner

Popcorn Words

Please practice reading, writing, and spelling our Popcorn Words.

This week’s words:

got & get

Previous words:

it, on, had, has, he, do, look, in, like, and, a, up, at, I, see, am, we, to, the, is, my, can, me, & go

Dates to Remember

December 9^th: PTO Meeting 6:00

December 19^th: Holiday Party 9:00

December 19^th: Tiger Pride Assembly

December 19^th: Dismiss at 12:30

December 20^th-January 4^th: Winter Break