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!

Newsletter Information

Mrs. Hendershot’s Class

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Dates:

     November 20- Early Out

     November 22- Report Cards go home

     November 27-29- No School

     December 11- Early Out

     December 12- 6:30 Kindergarten Concert- HS AUD

Daily 5:

We have our first 25 word wall words all introduced in our classroom.  Some students have already passed these and are working on challenge words.  Keep up all the hard work on these words.  We are working on the last half of our words now.  Please practice these papers as they come home!

Math:

We just began our new unit on measurement.  This unit is a lot of fun because we are able to do a lot of hands on activities.  We started out comparing sizes, then moved to actual measurements of different objects.  We found them all around the room and would measure them using cubes, paper clips, and a worm tape measure.  Ask your child about all the fun we are having in math!

Social Studies/Health:

We have spent the last week and a half continuing our discussion with the first Thanksgiving but we have also thrown in a twist of discussing healthy foods.  We created a list of the foods we believed were at the first Thanksgiving and then foods we eat now.  We discussed which were healthy or not healthy.  We even did a sort of the foods.  Finally we drew our plate at Thanksgiving to see how much of each food group we were getting.  It was a lot of fun!

Writing:

WOW!!  We have been busy writing up a storm this past week and a half.  We have really been working on what makes a sentence.  We discussed how you need a “who” and a “what”.  These parts are important so people can understand what you write.  So please practice this at home to see how well we are doing!

Helpful Hints:

     Have your child count to you and see how far they can count.

    Have your child spell some two and three letter words.

    Please continue to read the take home books and return when done.

Turkey Spelling Bags

What a day we had yesterday!!!  We created our own turkey spelling bags.  They had a great time coloring, cutting, and assembling the bags.  Then finally we were able to do a little spelling of words.  I hope that your child showed you this bag and even showed you what they knew about spelling words!  It was a lot of fun and a great activity to practice at home also!

Ordering Objects

We have been working very hard on our Measurement Unit in math.  We have been doing a lot of hands on activities to increase our knowledge of longer and shorter.  Last week we spent a lot of time putting objects back into order from shortest to longest.  It was a lot of fun to hear their explanations into why we needed to place an object into a certain position.  Check out the pictures from our activity.

Hand Turkey

We made our own hand turkey last Friday!  It was a lot of fun because most of the students wanted to trace their own hand and also they did an excellent job adding details to their turkey!  Hope you enjoyed them as much as we did when we shared them!