 I hope everyone is having a great start to the new year! We are excited to be back and hope for a happy and healthy new year! We are also excited to continue with our letter of the week activities.
We will be starting with letter D and moving our way to letter G in the month of January. We have been enjoying incorporating math, science, art, baking, and reading into our letter of the week activities and will continue to do so! When asked, a lot of our kindergartners wanted to know about dinosaurs. So we will be focusing our letter D week on activities about dinosaurs. For letter E we will be doing an egg experiment, learning a little bit about elephants, and talking about the sneaking silent letter E in words. During the week of letter F we will be learning about fish and their habitats, how to take care of our classroom fish, measuring with our feet, and writing letters to our future first grade selves. Lastly for week of letter G we will be doing a writing prompt “If you were stuck in a snowglobe...”, making art gardens, and gumdrop buildings. Warm wishes, Angelica, Mackenzie, and Christiane Wish list: Clorox wipes gumdrops tooth picks
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Welcome to a New Year; 2015 is going to be filled with lots of cheer!! HOORAY FOR JANUARY! We will slide right into Penguin Week, do you think webbed feet squeak?? Let’s shake things up during Music Week we’ll make music, play and sing! We will be recognizing Martin Luther King Jr., learning about his his dream and exploring our individual hopes and dreams as well. Now that it’s winter we’ll be learning about the change in seasons, and other changes we need to make due to shift in weather; such as now we have to wear warmer clothes! What other changes will be made now that it is winter time? Why do the seasons change? What does it mean that it is “Winter Time”? We will be exploring different sports during sportsmanship week! During this week we will focus on, how to be a good sport, the importance of game rules, and hope to build children's confidence while the children try new games and cheer each other on! Me Bag Updates: Me Bag Theme: Uniqueness Let’s explore something about you That’s different for you and me. Let’s make this Me Bag be about something Unique! Reminders: Please sign your child out EVERYDAY! January 19th-Martin Luther King Jr. Day- No School January 30th- Birthday Bash Strong winds and snowflakes may come our way on some days. On days when it’s extra chilly and our cheeks get rosy, a warm coat, mittens, and a hat is all it takes to be warm and cozy. Wait! Don’t for get your boots and extra socks to protect your toesies Wish List: Clorox Wipes Q-tips Cotton Balls Toilet Paper Rolls Thank you for all donations to our classroom, we greatly appreciate it! 
 Happy New Year!!! We hope all of you had a great December and Happy Holidays! We can’t believe it’s already January 2015, these past four months have just flown by! In December, we enjoyed learning what happens when you try and mix a fat with oil. We worked on following directions and accomplishing procedural instructions. It was fun to see the variety of designs that resulted in following the same steps. Our class celebrated three of the children’s birthdays in December 16th with a birthday bash! The children had fun eating blue cupcakes! This month we will focus on a number of the children’s goals that they determined in September. January goals will focus on animals. We will learn about polar bears, tigers and ocean creatures. We will also tie dye t-shirts and make gingerbread houses and people. We will be holding “Wish Days” in honor of birthdays from the past 5 months. Your child has made a request for a specific activity to take place at HEDP for all to participate in, please check your email and the sign-out for reminders of these days to ensure your child will be included. The first one of January will be: Wednesday, January 7th; Electronics Day! A couple of reminders this month… * Please sign your child out EVERYDAY! * Please make sure your child has extra clothing (especially socks)as they may get wet while outside in the snow. * No School January 1st, 2nd, & 19th January 12th-Birthday Bash Wish List Clorox Wipes Paper Towels Kids small white t-shirts Q-tips Cotton Balls Thank you to all that donate to our classroom, we greatly appreciate it!  “The 4-7 team would like to thank you all for the generous holiday gifts, treats, and warm wishes. We greatly appreciate your kindness and thoughtfulness!”
Project Bread Holiday Spoon’s Project We are excited to announce that the 4-7 students raised $103.00 in the Project Bread Holiday Spoon’s Project. We are so proud of their hard work and creativity in creating each spoon. In addition to creating the spoons, the students were in charge of all sales and working at the “spoon store.” Students were given 20 minute work times intervals where they had to be on time for their shift, document all sales and donations, keep track of all the money received, and cover work shifts for one another on an as needed basis Student Goals In September, students made personal goals for themselves to work towards accomplishing in the 2014-2015 school year. Some goals such as “win 30 daily challenges,””read more books,””learn new science experiments,””get to know others better,” and more! The children are well on their way accomplishing their goals! For example, a student’s goal of winning 30 challenges, if that student wins a daily challenge it will be documented on a chart daily. Due to the great amount of reading time provided daily a student with a goal of reading more books is closer to accomplishing this goal everyday! A student with a goal of getting to know others better is being accomplished daily through socialization, game playing, and very specifically during Friday group challenges. During the month of January and continuing for the next couple of months, much of our curriculum will be based on very specific student goals. We will be cooking various desserts to help accomplish cooking goals, have spelling bees to help accomplish academic goals, incorporate different sporting events to help reach sporting goals, and doing art projects to help achieve art goals and more! 4-7 students helping out in younger classrooms We would love to share the positive feedback we have received from teachers on our older students helping out in their classrooms. They help lead (and come up with their own) activities, read stories, and act as caregivers and role models when in the younger classrooms. Students request to help out in the other classrooms on a consistent basis and most often their request can be fulfilled. Often, two to three students will help out in a classroom at a time and often they request to go together. We find that the role they are creating for themselves is proving to be a life-long learning opportunity. We find that the students are learning skills of responsibility, companionship, patience, creativity, role modeling, care-giving and compassion through this role of helping out. As they explore their own growth and independence, we truly believe that this role is allowing them to strengthen these skills. News, notes, reminders Monday, January 19th: No School, Martin Luther King Jr. Day We hope everyone is having a great start to the new year! We are excited to be back and hope for a happy and healthy new year! We are also excited to continue with our letter of the week activities! We will be starting with letter D and moving our way to letter G in the month of January. We have been enjoying incorporating math, science, art, baking, and reading into our letter of the week activities and will continue to do so! We will be focusing our letter D week on activities about dinosaurs, ducks, and occupations that start with the letter D. For letter E we will be doing an egg experiment, and learning about elephants. During the week of letter F’s we will be learning about fish and their habitats, how to take care of our classroom fish, and measuring with our feet. Lastly for the week of letter G’s we will be making our own snow-globes, making art gardens, and gumdrop buildings! Warm wishes, Angelica & Mackenzie Wishlist: Paper towels Small mason jars Gumdrops Tooth picks |
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