Big Belly Santa

Yesterday we took a little time out of our learning to create a big belly Santa to bring home.  This took some time to color them just "perfect" but we did a wonderful job.  Then we attached them to a red bowl and WOW we had our own big belly Santa.  The students had many wonderful ideas on what they were going to put in their bowls when they got home!  Hope you enjoyed them!!!

Santa Cards and Placemats

Today we were busy working on a card to someone of our choosing!  We were very excited because we were able to pick who we wanted to give the card to and write something to them.  Then we were able to create our own placemat for the Holiday Party this coming Friday.  These will come home after the party!  Christmas fun is keeping us busy!!!

Making Words

We worked on making words today with a partner.  Then we did a few activities where they would take the first or the last letter away and tell everyone what the new word they made was.  It was a lot of fun and great to see them working together with another student!!

Newsletter Information

Mrs. Hendershot’s Class

Friday, December 13, 2013

Dates:

     December 20- Holiday Party

     December 23- January 1 – No School

     January 2 – School Resumes

     January 8- Early Out

     January 22- Early Out

Daily 5:

We are continuing our work in our Daily 5 routine.  The students have really made some tremendous improvements in their work on writing.  They write in a journal daily.  We are really working on making sentences using all the components we have practiced.  So far we have worked on spaces, starting with a capital letter, having a who and a what, and finally using an ending mark.

Math:

We have been busy in our math this month of December!  We just finished up our Chapter 6 on Measurement.  We will spend the last few days before break reviewing numbers to 30.  Our chapter on measurement was a lot of fun and the students did excellent on it.  We were able to play some games about taller/shorter, using a balance to weigh objects in our room, and even working on capacity.  We will be ready for the new unit in January on 2D and 3D shapes!

Health:

We have been working hard in health discussing a variety of different topics.  We spent last week discussing feelings, tattling, and apologizing.  They were really good at understanding different feelings.  Then we discussed the importance of know the difference between tattling and reporting.  Finally we worked on the correct way to apologize to others.  We then started discussing the character traits.  Please be asking your child to share what they have learned.

Helpful Hints:

     Start working on finding objects that are cones, cubes, cylinders, and spheres.

     Begin working on the number words zero through ten.

Santa's Little Helpers!!

Our hallway is full of deer...reindeer!  We have been super busy working on our reindeer!  This is a very fun project and we hope you can get into our hall sometime before Christmas break to check them out!  If not they will be coming home before you know it!

Enjoy the photos of us working on them!!

Comparing Names

We have been working on shortest and longest in our classroom and we decided to take a little time to work on all our names to put them in order from shortest to longest.  We also learned a lot of our names have the same amount of letters!  It was a lot of fun and we are sure learning a lot about measurement!

Turkey Glasses

On Tuesday before Thanksgiving break we spent some time having some fun and creating turkey glasses to wear.  These were a lot of fun and they looked pretty good on us too!