Kindergarten News - Week of December 8th

​We have had 6​7  days of school!

 Announcements/Reminders:​

• ​Monday, December 1​5th, The Animal Shelter visits the ELC. Please try to donate some of the items from the list. ​We have only received one donation so far...Thank you! 

• ​Wednesday, December 17th - Movie Day! (The Grinch...? but could also be a non holiday movie. Ideas please)
  

• ​Thursday, December 18th - WINTER CONCERT ​at 10AM, followed by small reception

• ​Friday, December 19th - Last day before break! This is a full day of school. There will be swimming in the morning as usual.

• FOLDERS: Please check these and remove all papers.

• Bloomz: Please check the Bloomz App for reminders and all of our photos - in the “December 202​5” albums.

•    Practice at home:

• Math “The Forest Game”

• writing ​Upper Case letters: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H
  

• Word ​Study: is, here, for, are,look, my, he, has, little, we, see, the

A Peek at our Week:

•  Counting, Adding & Subtracting with Forest Animals: We spent the week
  
  practicing adding and subtracting with forest animals. At the beginning of the week, we introduced the new Work Place 4B Foxes & Dens, where the players toss 2 dice - one numbered 0 to 5 and one with dots from 1 to 6. After rolling, the player adds up the numbers from both dice and moves forward on the game board. The other game we played was the Forest Game, which is being sent home as homework today. This was a fun way to practice adding and subtracting. Finally, at the end of the week, we introduced Work Place 4C Beat You to Twenty.
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  Gardening with Ms. Christina means everyone gets to explore the garden and discover what new things have been growing. Some were brave and even tasted the long green beans! One of the tomato plants has so many little tomatoes growing. There's spinach, sweet potato, some parsley and of course, basil galore! While snipping some of the basil, a grasshopper was also sighted. We really appreciate the time Ms. Christina takes to teach us about different things in the garden.
  
• Our Gingerbread children are so cute! Everyone had to trace and cut and decorate their little gingerbread children any way they chose to. They could use paint, but there were also lots of other little things they could glue on to make theirs look extra special.
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  Chomp Saw fun - Kindergarten received a 'Chomp Saw' and used it for the first time. This neat tool helped us cut out cardboard Christmas trees like pros. Some commented that it wasn't as easy as it looked, but that it was fun. It took a bit to get the hang of lining up the saw with the line they were cutting, but they all did a really good job with it. The resulting trees were then painted and decorated with glitter - what else?!

Kindergarten News - Week of December 1st

 We have had 62 days of school!

Announcements & Reminders:

• The Animal Shelter visits the ELC on Monday, December 15th! Please see email sent separately.
• ELC Concert: Thursday.December 18th @ 10:00 AM, followed by reception

• Last day before Winter Break: December 19th
  
• Winter Break: December 22nd - January 6th
• Back to School: Wednesday, January 7th
• FOLDERS: Please check these and remove all papers.
• Bloomz: Please check the Bloomz App for reminders and all of our photos - in the “December 2025” album.  I believe you should be able to download the photos you want - please let me know if this is not possible.
• Practice at home: 
• Fundations: Unit 2 introduction
• Word study: I, can, see, come, the, a, like, to, look, at, and
• Math: ​Ordering & Comparing Numbers

A few highlights of our week:

Star Student: Our Star Student is Ghalia (aka Gigi)! Her Birthday was on November 11th. Ghalia's favorite color is blue and her favorite food is chicken and broccoli pizza! In her free time, Ghalia enjoys coloring, swimming, and Roblox. Her favorite sport is soccer. When Ghalia grows up she wants to be a firefighter! 

Paths: The Number Line:

Unit  4 of Math is well on the way! Please check the attached “Unit 4 Overview” to see what our focus is for this unit. This week was all about numbers 0 to 10 and putting them in the correct order. We played a fun game “Read My Mind” where Ms. Cerni thought of a number and the class tried to guess. The only clues that could be given were “greater than” and “less than” hints. We also introduced a new Work Place (4A) “Scrambled Numbers One to Ten”

Reading: Now that we have completed our introduction to lower case letters and sounds, we are also learning to use everything we know about letter sounds to blend them together and make three letter words. We've also been learning some high frequency words and played around with rhyming words! Busy week!

Global Perspectives:

How can we be healthy? The class talked about what it means to be healthy. Everyone agreed that exercising was important and also eating healthy foods! At the end our young learners talked about healthy activities and made pictures of beach outings with the family, fishing at the pier, playing soccer and many more. It's a great time to continue the conversation at home and work together to make healthy choices - healthy foods, active lifestyle (minimal screen time), and enough rest!

                                                                                                                                      

 SEL: In her monthly lesson, Ms. Bird focused on resolving conflict. After giving the class several examples of what conflict is and letting the class share their thoughts on resolving it, Ms. Bird had our young learners act out several scenarios. It was fun to watch them get into character. Who knew we had such good actors in Kindergarten!

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  ART:  We made the cutest red nosed reindeer this week! We think of it as a type of self portrait (If I were a reindeer...) Everyone was excited to try.
  They colored, glued, added antlers and the results are absolutely adorable. Check out the Kindergarten windows when you have a chance.