We are getting ready for Christmas in the Kindergarten room. We started the week off by learning about wants and needs. Then we created a class book called, All I Want For Christmas. We each wrote a Christmas list with things we really need and things we really want for Christmas. We also wrote about what we would do if we woke up and found Santa stuck in our chimney just like in the story, Santa’s Stuck. We then created a picture of Santa stuck in a chimney. We ended the week by exploring the candy cane. We listened to the story, The Legend of the Candy Cane, and compared it to the movie. We also made candy cane ornaments. Our week wouldn’t be complete without learning about 2 special Saints, St. Nicholas and St. Juan Diego, and celebrating the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. On Tuesday we arrived at school to treats in our shoes. St. Nicholas taught us that it is more important to give than to receive. OnThursday we attended Mass in honor of Mary and her willingness to say “yes” to God. On Friday, we heard the story of how Mary chose Juan Diego to give the Bishop a special sign from Our Lady of Guadeloupe.
Monday:
Reading
Introduced to 2 new secret stories:
oo - when oo are together sometimes they pretend to be owls that say “oooo” and sometimes they like to be pirates that say “uuuhhh”
ph - when p and ha get together they like to make phoney phone calls. They yell ‘’ffff” before they hang up.
Reviewed our sight word
Introduced to 2 new sight words: we & have
Reading through our new emergent reader, Merry Christmas. As we read, we were on the lookout for “secrets”.
Completed a Build-a-Word short a worksheet
Introduced to Wants and Needs
Defined
Found Examples
Completed a sorting worksheet
Math
Introduced to longer and shorter
Started a worksheet locating items that were longer than a pencil
Religion
Listened to our first Advent Book, The Story of Saint Nicholas
The Day of Advent with Brother Francis - The Wreath
Colored a shoe in the hopes that St. Nicholas will stop by our classroom tonight.
Tuesday:
Reading
Introduced to a new secret story:
or: When O and R get together, they can never make up their mind as to what to play, this OR that OR this OR that.
CVC Christmas Tree short a words
Reviewed Wants and Needs
Worked on writing our Christmas list
Math
Calendar
Positional words and following directions
Finished our longer and shorter worksheet from yesterday
Religion
Listened to our Advent Book, The Legend of St. Nicholas
The Day of Advent with Brother Francis - Praise
Colored St Nicholas Picture
Watched movie St Nicholas: The Boy Who Became Santa
Wednesday:
Reading
Introduced to a new secret story:
Blends: Theses are letters that spent too long in the blender. They say their name, but are smushed together.
CVC Christmas Tree short e words
Listened to the story, Santa’s Stuck
Wrote what we would do if we found Santa stuck in our chimney
Drew lines on a piece of paper to make it look like bricks - (We will turn it into a Chimney/fireplace.)
Math
Worked on comparing different representations of numbers - digits, tens frames, dots
Ordering Numbers Game on Boom Learning
Religion
Listened to our Advent Book, On This Special Night
The Day of Advent with Brother Francis - Carols
Thursday:
Reading
en, et, ed sorting worksheet
Finish our Santa’s stuck art project
Math
Calendar
Religion
Listened to our Advent Book, The Story of Baby Jesus
The Day of Advent with Brother Francis - Prepare
Mass - Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Watched a short video about Juan Diego
Friday:
Reading
Introduced to a new secret story:
wh: They play so hard when they are together they are always out of breath and say “whhhhh”
ar: They are best friends. A gives his superhero power to r, so he can say his name.
-et word family flip book
Created a Candy Cane ornament
Watched the movie the Legend of the Candy Candy and compared it to the book
Math
Calendar
Played a spinner game - moving pieces on a game board
Created AB, ABB, & ABC patterns on a candy cane
Religion
Listened to our Advent Book, The Legend of the Candy Cane
The Day of Advent with Brother Francis - Light
Completed our Promise booklet about Mary and Joseph saying yes to God
Colored a picture of St. Juan Diego